Estimarea nivelului lecturii publice în judeţul Mureş 1997-2001.
Estimation of the Reading Level in the Mureş County Public Libraries 1997-2001.

Book. Reading. Library.

Summary/Abstract: The activity of a library may be appreciated by the quality of its services offered to the public and by the impact of these services upon readers. Inspite of the economical difficulties, libraries seem to be going through a benefic period; that is because of the informational development, the presence of computers in libraries, the use of informational computer programmes in librairies.There are some principles, according to which we might appreciate the activity of a library and, maybe, the most important is the relation between input (the resources that enter the library, the revenues) and output (the result, based on those resources).In order to estimate the activity of public libraries from the Mureş County, we had used some standards printed forms that required information on collections, aquisitions, the way of organizing the public services etc.Using the number of the inhabitants as a criterium, public libraries may be devided into 5 groups: the first group is represented by small villages with no more than 1000 inhabitants and the last group – towns with more than 10000 inhabitants. Each group deals with specific problems, such as: lack of editorial novelties, unspecialiazed personnel, apathy of the readers and, unfortunatelly, the lack of interest of local authorities.

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