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    Saving the time of community :Gyanbikas community library & learning center Panauty, Kavrepalanchok ,Nepal
    (Central Department of Library and Information Science, 2020-12-25) Luintel, Goma; Nyaichyai, Lila
    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 Twenty three available related articles, books and unpublished thesis were sincerely reviewed and prepared the questionnaire for data collection.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.
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    Users status and potential users of Dilliraman Kalyani Regmi memorial library
    (Central Department of Library and Information Science, 2020-04-17) Khadka, Rakshya; Nyaichyai, Lila
    This study entitled “Users’ Status and Potential Users of Dilliraman Kalyani Regmi Memorial Library” has been selected to find out the overall status of users in DKRML. Dilliraman Library was privately owned and transformed into public library since 2037 B.S. DKRML has passed four decades in the library services. But the major problem of DKRML is that only less number of users are using library. This study also concerns to know the information needs of the users, available sources and services of the library and it also identifies such variables which are responsible to attract more numbers of potential users in a library. The significance of this study is to provide users’ related information about DKRML. For this study, 25 related national, international articles, books, unpublished thesis were reviewed. This study was divided into 2 parts. To find out the users’ status of DKRML, observation, questionnaire and interview had done with the available users, staffs and board members of DKRML. And to find out the potential users of DKRML, questionnaires were prepared and collected from all the available respondents of Central Department of History and Central Department of Political Science of T.U. Altogether, 55 individuals had participated during the data collection. Collected data had analyzed through both qualitative and quantitative methods. More youth visitor found in DKRML as compared other age group of users. Library resources, internet service & friendly behavior of library staffs attract library users in the library. But due to its old physical infrastructure, users are facing space problem. DKRML consist relatable resources for potential users, but potential users are unknown about DKRML due to less publicity. New library building should build as soon as possible to reduce space problem. The number of skilled staffs should add to increase more library services like lending service. The way of publicity needs to be changed per circumstances and demand of time to attract more number of potential users in the library. Keywords: Library, Public libraries, User study