TENDENCY OF SPACES AND OPERATION IN JAPANESE PUBLIC LIBRARIES FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF CITIZENS' MULTIPURPOSE USES

Abstract

It can be found many public libraries in Japan have had the tendency of providing the services supporting citizen’s learning activity and a variety of events for the enhance of multimedia uses in addidtion to book rental service since 1990s. Therefore, the planning theory specified to book reading and rental of a public library is needed to revise, corresponding to those multipurpose uses of a public library. Then, in order to establish the public library’s planning theory meeting current needs, this study pays more attentions to the spaces and the operation arranged for citizen’s multipurpose use and the relationship of them, and aims to examine the current situation of space and operation of public libraries, based on the responses from the public libraries which have managed itself for citizen’s multipurpose us. To reach this study’s goal, the questionnaire research to the public libraries (924 libraries) located within 1 km distance from s station in Japan was implemented in 2016, and 550 responses (59.5 %) were collected. As a result of intensive analyses of the responses to the questionnaire, the followings were found.

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