I 1 2 2 /SATISFYING LIBRARY USERS' READING/INFORMATION NEEDS

 

Purpose
Reckognizing library users' specific needs in different types of libraries.

Goals
Mastering methods of practical research of library users' needs

Subjects
- Identifying special characteristics of library users' information needs
- Methods of practical research (sociological, statistical and informational
- Adequate acquisition policy, secondary information sources on new and needed publications

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

Reference Books
- Evans, G. Edward: Developing Library and Information Center Collections, Englewood, Col., 2000
- Handbook on Special Librarianship and Information Work, 1992
- Šuljagic, Radmila: School Media Colection, Belgrade, 1962
- Kneževic, Branko: The Science of Information II, Belgrade, 1995
- Kneževic, Branko: The Science of Information III, Belgrade, 1997

Lecturers: Gordana Ljubanovic and Branko Kneževic PhD, Professor

Duration: 2 days (8 lectures)

Date: Saturday and Sunday, June 23 and 24, 2001

The course is intended for:
- librarians in all types of libraries dealing with acquisition and defining library holdings
- librarians in all types of libraries working in library lending departments or in reading rooms
- librarians dealing with organization of cultural-information programmes