Saving the time of community :Gyanbikas community library & learning center Panauty, Kavrepalanchok ,Nepal
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2020-12-25
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Central Department of Library and Information Science
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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unpublished thesis were sincerely reviewed and prepared the questionnaire for data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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. Gyan Bikas Community Library & Learning Center, Panauti, Kavrepalanchok
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Luintel,Goma(2020).Saving the time of community :Gyanbikas community library & learning center Panauty, Kavrepalanchok ,Nepal[Master's thesis,Tribhuvan University].TUCDLIS elibrary.https://elibrary tucdlis.edu.np/