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When clusters of related personal background have been established, the Apriori algorithm is used to discover the suitable materials in which readers are interested and which they may need.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Findings<\/jats:title><jats:p>The investigation results indicate that the ART and Apriori mining techniques can be used to improve the accuracy of the recommendations for reading materials in the library. Moreover, readers can be divided by means of demographic variables into three segments. Finally, the questionnaire survey proved that the proposed recommender system will be a suitable approach for stimulating the readers' motivation and interest. <jats:bold><jats:bold>Research limitations\/implications<\/jats:bold><\/jats:bold> \u2013 This research is limited by its datasets from a digital library of a university in Taiwan, and it is applied by ART and Apriori mining techniques to recommend materials of readers.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Originality\/value<\/jats:title><jats:p>Today, digital information is becoming ever more popular. The huge quantity and the diversity of digital information are its main features. Therefore, readers are interested in obtaining useful information in an efficient manner. 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