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

Karunakar.N.; Dr.F.G.Patil

Volume : VII, Issue : VI, June - 2018

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

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

Abstract :

Public liary is a liary that is accessible by the general public and is generally funded from public sources (such as taxes) and operated by civil servants. Public liaries 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 anch liary 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 liary, types of reading materials used by the public liary users, Frequency of liary visit by the public liary users, amount of time spent in liary, 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.