A Study on National Library of Public Information as Third Place and Its Non-users

• Main Authors: Hsu, Chiung-Hui, 許瓊惠
• Other Authors: Ke, Hao-Ren
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/899usm

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 圖書資訊學研究所 === 105 === The centraland local government have paid more and more attention to the development of public libraries. The spaces and services of library have transformed in an innovative way. At the beginning of the establishment of the NLPI, it appeals a crowd of people. However, the number of users, registered readers, the number of loans and borrowings is gradually decreasing by year. In order to understand the users of NLPI, this study analyzed the goals and the ways of library usage, the effect to user’s life, the impact of NLPI as a third place and the reason why users do not use NLPI. This study found out that users of NLPI are mainly residents of Taichung city district. Female surpass male. The majority of users are single and students, and the age of main users range from 19 to 34. The way of usage is mainly still checking in/out books. The number of travel-oriented users is going down, and there are more and more heavy users frequently coming to library. Besides, most people do not stay for a long time in NLPI. Most users consider that knowledge and skill learning activities, support for accomplishing homework and project, offering healthy and medical information, providing fictions and movies benefits them most. NLPI conform to five characteristics of the third place including “the third place as leveler”, “accessibility and accommodation”, “low profile”, “the mood is playful” and “a home away from home”. NLPI as a third place is highly correlated with effectiveness evaluation of NLPI. Besides, the primary reason why non-users do not use NLPI is personal reasons. At last, the suggestion for the future planning of NLPI service is proposed according to the result of this study.