I 1 2 1 /CREATING LIBRARY USERS' DATABASE

 

Purpose
Stimulating librarians to learn about library users' needs using new and more accurate methods.

Goals
Training in creating and using library users' database.

Subjects
- Personal and other data on library users
- Registering of (un)satisfied requests
- Electronic database and retrieval of library users' characteristics, visits and habits as well as of types of their requests

Teaching Methods
- Workshop
- Lectures in an electronically equipped classroom with use of videobeam

Reference Books
- CLIO Magazine, No. 2
- Racković, Jasmina: Review of Collective Acquisition Made by the Associated Libraries of Belgrade (offprint), Bibliotekar, 1994
- Evans, G. Edward: Developing Library and Information Center Collections, Englewood, Col., 2000

Lecturers: Gordana Ljubanović and Jasmina Rackovic M.A.

Duration: 2 days (8 lectures)

Date: Saturday and Sunday, June 16 and 17, 2001

The course is intended for:
- librarians in all types of libraries dealing with acquisition and defining library holdings
- acquisition department managers
- library managers
- librarians in all types of libraries working in library lending departments or in reading rooms
- librarians performing "parent" activities in all types of libraries dealing with library users' analysis and with analysing use of library holdings