UNDERSTANDING THE PATTERN OF LIBRARY USAGE AMONG THE USERS OF BRANCH PUBLIC LIBRARY IN HUNSUR, MYSORE DISTRICT

Journal Title: PARIPEX-Indian Journal of Research - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 6

Abstract

Public library is a library that is accessible by the general public and is generally funded from public sources (such as taxes) and operated by civil servants. Public libraries today play an important role in the life of the community. Totally 200 users were surveyed with the help of a structured questionnaire as a tool for data collection. The main aim of the study is to find out the people of branch library users have the habit of reading or not. “Reading makes that full man, conference a ready man, writing an exact man” is a very popular quotation of the great philosopher Sir Francis Bacon. The study mainly focused on language preferences, purpose of visit of library, types of reading materials used by the public library users, Frequency of library visit by the public library users, amount of time spent in library, level of satisfaction with available resources. For this purpose the researcher prepared a well structured questionnaire as a tool for data collection and same has been analyzed and presented in the tables. The article concluded with summarized the results highlights the major findings and suggestions.

Authors and Affiliations

Karunakar. N. , Dr. F. G. Patil

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Karunakar. N. , Dr. F. G. Patil (2018). UNDERSTANDING THE PATTERN OF LIBRARY USAGE AMONG THE USERS OF BRANCH PUBLIC LIBRARY IN HUNSUR, MYSORE DISTRICT. PARIPEX-Indian Journal of Research, 7(6), 25-27. https://www.europub.co.uk/articles/-A-453902