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| Format: | Recurso educativo Open Access |
| Sprache: | en |
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1994
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- Why Adults Use the Public Library: A Research Perspective. Marchant, Maurice P. Adults Comparative Analysis Hypothesis Testing Individual Characteristics Interviews Library Research Motivation Public Libraries Questionnaires Statistical Analysis User Needs (Information) Users (Information) This book discusses the motivations that cause adults to go to the public library. It is grouped into eight sections concerning: (1) the research methodology and results used to determine four motivators that were good predictors of library use; (2) the development of library research; (3) several characteristics of library users in terms of education, employment and occupational classes, age, sex, family income, number of minor children, marital status, school attendance, access to a car, companions, political preference, and distance from home to library; (4) measures of library use and their interrelationships; (5) motivators of specific and composite library uses such as home and family life, vocational growth, church attendance, and political; (6) motivators and user characteristics in the same areas as section 3; (7) user characteristics and use in the same areas as sections 3 and 6; and (8) conclusions about the questions posed regarding the uses of public libraries by adults. There are two appendices: the first contains the interview questions and responses and the second outlines problems and null hypotheses. (Contains 32 references.) (DGM)