Working with children and youth in public libraries of Labin, Rijeka and Pula

Griparić Fable, Ivana. (2017). Working with children and youth in public libraries of Labin, Rijeka and Pula. Diploma Thesis. Filozofski fakultet u Zagrebu, Department of Information Science > Chair of librarianship. [mentor Hebrang Grgić, Ivana].

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Abstract

It is very important to set up firm base from the earliest ages to create an active reader, a customary and active user of public libraries, the user who will know how to recognize a high quality of the librarian services and programmes and the importance of the high quality carrying out time with books. There are so many factors that influence on the first impression when a child visits the public library for the first time. The child wishes to come back again into the library if the child's experience after the first visit makes the child to visit the library more frequently. It depends about the range of facts like the space of the library, about the librarian, the library material, programmes and the contents that the library offers. It is very important become an adult active user of the public library services. The public libraries whether specialized children's libraries or the children's departments have important and crucial role because there is a fact that a child has gained the routine of visiting the library and has had a routine of using the services of the public library. This child will become an active user of the library in the future. This degree essay will be active in its theoretical part of the importance of public libraries for the children and youth. It will be active in the recommendation for work with children and youth in the public library, programmes and the contents for them as their users, competences of the librarian who works with children and young people and the importance of social networks in the work of the public libraries. In this reaserch will be examined the way of work with children and youth in three public libraries: public libraries of the town of Labin, Rijeka and Pula, by studyinig their web pages and by interviewing the librarians, so we could become aware of what these libraries offer to children and young people, how much are the contents attractive and diversified and finally how much are they fascinating to children and young people.

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