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
  • NAITOH Saori
    Law and Economics Library, Gakushuin University

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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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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.

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