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Autore principale: Bundy, Mary Lee
Natura: Recurso educativo Open Access
Lingua:en
Pubblicazione: 1968
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contents Metropolitan Public Library Users, A Report of a Survey of Adult Library Use in the Maryland Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area. Bundy, Mary Lee Adults Bibliographies Distance Geographic Location Individual Characteristics Information Needs Library Cooperation Library Networks Library Services Library Surveys Metropolitan Areas Middle Class Occupations Public Libraries Public Opinion Reading Interests Social Change Statistical Data Use Studies This survey of the users of one hundred library units in the eight library systems in metropolitan Maryland is based on a brief questionnaire given to every fifth adult user who entered any of these libraries during six days over the period of March 28, 1966, to May 7, 1966. The research effort was directed toward discovering which elements of the community are reached, the means by which patrons get to libraries, purposes for library use, subject interests, and the nature of the library encounter. This report includes: (1) a discussion of the survey scope and method; (2) a review of the literature on public library use studies; (3) background information on the counties and their libraries; (4) an examination of change in these library systems; (5) a profile of library users; (6) an analysis of factors influencing library use including difference s in library systems, patron occupations and library size; (7) an examination of user attitudes; (8) data on inter-library use; and (9) a consideration of the broad implications of the study findings, based on the observation that public libraries are still tied to traditional commitments and to traditional clienteles. Appended is the survey questionnaire, a bibliography listing 26 sources of information about Maryland, and an annotated bibliography of 42 public library user studies. (JB)
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spellingShingle Metropolitan Public Library Users, A Report of a Survey of Adult Library Use in the Maryland Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area.
Bundy, Mary Lee
Adults
Bibliographies
Distance
Geographic Location
Individual Characteristics
Information Needs
Library Cooperation
Library Networks
Library Services
Library Surveys
Metropolitan Areas
Middle Class
Occupations
Public Libraries
Public Opinion
Reading Interests
Social Change
Statistical Data
Use Studies
Metropolitan Public Library Users, A Report of a Survey of Adult Library Use in the Maryland Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area. Bundy, Mary Lee Adults Bibliographies Distance Geographic Location Individual Characteristics Information Needs Library Cooperation Library Networks Library Services Library Surveys Metropolitan Areas Middle Class Occupations Public Libraries Public Opinion Reading Interests Social Change Statistical Data Use Studies This survey of the users of one hundred library units in the eight library systems in metropolitan Maryland is based on a brief questionnaire given to every fifth adult user who entered any of these libraries during six days over the period of March 28, 1966, to May 7, 1966. The research effort was directed toward discovering which elements of the community are reached, the means by which patrons get to libraries, purposes for library use, subject interests, and the nature of the library encounter. This report includes: (1) a discussion of the survey scope and method; (2) a review of the literature on public library use studies; (3) background information on the counties and their libraries; (4) an examination of change in these library systems; (5) a profile of library users; (6) an analysis of factors influencing library use including difference s in library systems, patron occupations and library size; (7) an examination of user attitudes; (8) data on inter-library use; and (9) a consideration of the broad implications of the study findings, based on the observation that public libraries are still tied to traditional commitments and to traditional clienteles. Appended is the survey questionnaire, a bibliography listing 26 sources of information about Maryland, and an annotated bibliography of 42 public library user studies. (JB)
title Metropolitan Public Library Users, A Report of a Survey of Adult Library Use in the Maryland Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area.
topic Adults
Bibliographies
Distance
Geographic Location
Individual Characteristics
Information Needs
Library Cooperation
Library Networks
Library Services
Library Surveys
Metropolitan Areas
Middle Class
Occupations
Public Libraries
Public Opinion
Reading Interests
Social Change
Statistical Data
Use Studies
url https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED028788