| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000)
Fiscal Year 1998: ¥600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000)
Fiscal Year 1997: ¥600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000)
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| Research Abstract |
The purposes of this study are three.
The first purpose is to clarify the characteristics of the use and the method of the assignment service of collections at public libraries in the mutual use network There are three types of the use. In one of them, people use not only the libraries in their city because easy access and convenience are a major factor, but also other libraries in their neighboring cities, because the attraction of books is more important. It is the number of books. Therefore, the assignment service of libraries is not about a special collection of books, but is better about many kinds of books.
Recently, many children use public libraries with their parents, which we call 'family use'. The second purpose of this study is to clarify the method of arranging die children's book area and the adults' book area for family use. When the children's book area is next to the adults' book area, the children are apt to separate more easily from their parents and stay longer at the children's book area than when both areas are far apart Moreover, the children can oftener go to see their parents while they are reading books separated in their different areas. Therefore, the type of arranging the children's book area adjacent to the area for adults' books is more effective for family use than the separate type.
The last purpose of this study is to clarify the method of calculating the number of users and seats used to at peak. They can be calculated by the number of borrowing books of the day at each libraries.
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