Measurement of In-library Material Use in Public Libraries
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- ITOGA Masaru
- School of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Letters, Keio University
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- NAITOH Saori
- Law and Economics Library, Gakushuin University
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- Other Title
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- 館内閲覧量の測定 : 公共図書館内で資料が読まれた量を把握する試み
- カン ナイ エツランリョウ ノ ソクテイ コウキョウ トショカン ナイ デ シリョウ ガ ヨマレタ リョウ オ ハアク スル ココロミ
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Description
Methodology for measuring the quantity of in-library material use is discussed in order to introduce such methods as suggested in this study into the public library context as a part of management tools. User observation surveys, in which a survey-staff member counts the number of in-library material users every fifteen minutes during library operating hours, were conducted in a city library and a prefectural library in Japan. Results of these surveys reveal that the total time of in-library material use was approximately the same as obtained from user self-administered questionnaire survey implemented at the same time and that every two or three hours observation is sufficiently enough to estimate the whole in-library material use time. Thus the possibility of measuring the quantity of in-library use is validated in terms of time devoted to reading by users, neither of the number of materials used nor the number of users.
Journal
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- Journal of Japan Society of Library and Information Science
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Journal of Japan Society of Library and Information Science 56 (4), 177-189, 2010
Japan Society of Library and Information Science
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Details 詳細情報について
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- CRID
- 1390282679544165120
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- NII Article ID
- 110008006450
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- NII Book ID
- AA11333306
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- ISSN
- 24324027
- 13448668
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- NDL BIB ID
- 10927926
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- Text Lang
- ja
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- Data Source
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- JaLC
- NDL
- CiNii Articles
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- Disallowed