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Show Tt3 C:r3 Yea Eiot, The r.::rs Ycu'll I7cat To Know By TOM BUSSELBERG FARMINGTON - The more information available to the public on the library, the more it will be utilized by the public, a study recently completed by a Davis County Library employee shows. THE DAVIS County Library Board was given that word by Mrs. Sarah Beth Galloway, coordinator of public services for the library, who recently completed a paper on library use for her master's degree in library science obtained at Brigham Young University. Her paper was entitled, "Relationship Between Awareness of Davis County Libraries and Their Use and Nonuse." The study showed highest 1 useage was for checking out books followed by use of periodicals and copying machines. Useage would be high for such services as 16 millimeter films, basic skills, craft classes, paintings and posters for checkout. MRS. GALLOWAY ob- ! tained those and other results j from a random telephone survey of 104 county residents, among other results: From 45 to 65 percent said they used the library for personal per-sonal interest and four to 16 percent for job-related reasons. BETWEEN 30 and 57 percent of users were dissatisfied dis-satisfied with the library because materials they wanted want-ed weren't available. From just over half to three-fourths of those using the library utilized from one to 11 library services and between 62 and 80 percent of users said they would have used the same number of services had they known about them. OF HER 104-person sample, 58 were classified as users of a public, college or church library and 35 said they had used the Davis County Library within the past year. Forty-six said they hadn't utilized any library during that time. Mrs. Galloway said library useage by more than 50 percent per-cent of her sample compared to a survey showing useage by only about 30 percent nationally na-tionally and she said family useage in the county was about 60 percent. - IN COMPARING library users and nonusers, the survey sur-vey showed that users tended to be from 25-40 years old and had a better than average education. About half were employed and many were in professional and managerial positions. Nonusers were generally older, between 41 and 55 years-of-age, usually were less educated than the user, and of these about half were employed, many were in management and clerical jobs. Both groups showed a majority living five miles or more from the library. THE SURVEY showed that 31 percent of users utilized the South Branch in Bountiful and only 21 percent the North Branch in Clearfield. That differed from user response indicating equal use of both. Mrs. Galloway said 70 percent per-cent of those surveyed indicated in-dicated they were informed about library activities by newspaper, some by radio and a few by TV. But library use would increase if more people, especially those already using a library, were informed, she said. "IT IS recommended that more public relations programs be researched, planned and implemented to inform the residents of Davis County of the services available availa-ble at the library and that 16 millimeter film loan, classes in basic skills and crafts and painting and poster loan be considered for future services of the library." Services presently availa- ble include book checkout, periodicals for reference use, reference and research service, ser-vice, study areas, answering of questions by telephone, business and trade information, informa-tion, interlibrary loan, film-strip film-strip checkout, copying machines, children's story-time, story-time, public meeting rooms, art exhibits and evening programs. |