Saving the time of community :Gyanbikas community library & learning center Panauty, Kavrepalanchok ,Nepal

Abstract

This study entitled “Saving the Time of Community: Gyan Bikas Community Library & Learning Center, Panauti, Kavrepalanchok, Nepal” has been done with the purpose of describing or finding the application of the fourth law of library science in GBCL, exploring the mechanism applied to save the time of the user, and to describe users' perspectives on time saving library services from GBCL. GBCL's service delivery is worth exploring on how promptly it is serving effectively to its community members like- professionals, students, group of farmers, group of women, housewife, child, youth, old people and other. Since, the users are a variety of and so their needs are also different kinds of services. In such a diverse situation, how GBCL is providing services by saving their time. For the community library, users always come to the center. This study will help GBCL to identify the ways to save library patrons' time while providing library services. This study also will contribute to changing the existing library service system to facilitate library users by pinpointing a need for a time saving mechanism. Twenty three available related articles, books and unpublished thesis were sincerely reviewed and prepared the questionnaire for data collection. This study conducted mixed methods research. After collecting, data was analyzed descriptively and quantitatively. This study had divided community service into library services (book service, informal education class, skill development training and ICT training) and community services (health camp, agricultural training, animal farming training and other). Therefore, in both community services and library services, this study found that the time saving mechanism of GCBL are proactive librarian, GBCL executive members along with field experts. The librarian was aware to internalize the value and importance of the Fourth Law of Library Science 'Save the time of the reader and practice them while offering the library services. Time is changing as well as this is the age of science and technology. Therefore, users wanted for technology based services. Hence, Library services based on modern library technology provide pinpointed, exhaustive and expeditious library services in future, which will make GBCL a more popular library and role model library.