A Study of College student School Library Usage and Demands -Case Studies of Tourism-Related Departments in Ming Chuan University and National Kinmen Institute of Technology

• Main Authors: Chin-Shan Lee, 李瑾珊
• Other Authors: Wu -Chung Wu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/542czu

碩士 === 銘傳大學 === 觀光研究所碩士在職專班 === 95 === Collage library represents a unit of service, and is also a source of knowledge. It provides an individual space for all students and faculties to gain knowledge. Taking the tourism-related students from the Ming Chuan University (The MCU represents a comprehensive university) and the Kinmen Institute of Technology (The KMIT stands for a technical collage) for Examples, this study tries to understand the demands of library services and the behavior of information seeking between two groups from the aspects of courses’ requirements, gender, and educational background. Moreover, the analysis results serve as an improvement guideline for libraries to tailor its services to the user needs, and enhance the library functions in the digital era. This research chose tourism-related students from the MCU and the KIT as studying groups, and 381 effective questionnaires were collected. The SPSS, statistical software, was then utilized to do the next analysis. Finally, the conclusion was made as follows: 1. Understanding the use of libraries by the two groups of students from the MCU and the KMIT respectively. 2. Analyzing the differences of library using between the above two groups from the perspective of collage location (The MTU is located on Taiwan island, and the KMIT is on Kinmen island). 3. Understanding the demands of collage libraries for tourism-related students. Students from the MCU and the KIMT express specific demands and describe different services that need to be improved because of their educational backgrounds and school systems.In addition, the research analyzes the factor of gender to understand the demands of libraries, the purposes of libraries using, the wishing list of purchases, and the activities in order to increase the attending percentage.All of them vary by the viewpoints and fondness of male and female.