Research Result

　　Summing up the above questionnaires and interviews, we found there are both similarities and differences among their opinions.  They are all satisfied with the facility, however they view differently in the book preference,  check-out system , the shortage of volunteers and the prospects.  In order to balance our findings, we interviewed three public libraries nearby.

　　The information we got from the interviews indicates that most of the volunteers in public libraries are housekeepers aged from 40 to 50.  Females are also more than males like that in our school library. The paragraph below is our conclusion:

(1)The collection of comic books should depend on its content and purpose

　　According to the questionnaires, students prefer to read comic books.  However, we are curious that why there still are comic book collections if the teacher don’t recommend students to read them. The librarian Aunt Yi-Ting explained that the comic books in the library are full of knowledge, and they are much different from other entertaining comic books we find off campus.

(2)To recruit volunteers from retired faculty and alumni

　　Most of the volunteers in our library are the parents of our students due they can have the similar daily routine as their children.  However, most of  the volunteers in public libraries are retired teachers.  Therefore, we are thinking the possibility of recruiting volunteers from our retired teachers an alumni.

(3)The necessity of the book-washing mechanism

　　The most special work for the volunteers in our library is washing the books.  Since we are short of the budget in buying UV sterilizing machines, the volunteers have to wash the books one after another by hand.  It’s really a hard work.

(4)To integrate the school library and public libraries to increase the circulation of books

　　The collection of books in public libraries is much bigger than that in our library.  Therefore if we encourage our students to borrow books from the public libraries, we may solve the problem of slow replacement of books.

(5)To automate and computerize to save the labor power

　　Besides recruiting volunteers from the community and college students, it’s a good idea to automate and computerize the librarian system. Once the librarian system has been automated and computerized, we don’t need that many volunteers to work for our library.