Public Libraries of Goa and its role in supporting research: A study

1. Introduction:
Public libraries are a world-wide phenomenon. They occur in a variety of societies, in
differing cultures and at different stages of development. Although the varied contexts in which
they operate inevitably result in differences in the services they provide, and the way those
services are delivered, they normally have characteristics in common, which can be defined as
follows. A public library is an organization established, supported and funded by the community,
either through local, regional or national government or through some other form of community
organization. It provides access to knowledge, information and works of the imagination through
a range of resources and services and is equally available to all members of the community
regardless of race, nationality, age, gender, religion, language, disability, economic and
employment status and educational attainment.
The public library has an important role as a public space and meeting place. This is
particularly important in communities where there are few places for people to meet. It is
sometimes called the drawing room of the community. Use of the library for research and for
finding information relating to the users education and leisure interests, brings people into
informal contact with other members of the community. Using the public library can be a
positive social experience.

1.1Goa Public Library:

A public library is a library that is accessible by the general public and is generally funded
from public sources, such as taxes. It is operated by librarians and library paraprofessionals, who
are also civil servants.
There are five fundamental characteristics shared by public libraries. The first is that they are
generally supported by taxes (usually local, though any level of government can and may
contribute); they are governed by a board to serve the public interest; they are open to all, and
every community member can access the collection; they are entirely voluntary in that no one is
ever forced to use the services provided; and they provide basic services without charge.[1]

Public libraries exist in many countries across the world and are often considered an essential
part of having an educated and literate population. Public libraries are distinct from research
libraries, school libraries, and other special libraries in that their mandate is to serve the general
public's information needs rather than the needs of a particular school, institution, or research
population. Public libraries also provide free services such as preschool story times to encourage
early literacy, quiet study and work areas for students and professionals, or book clubs to
encourage appreciation of literature in adults. Public libraries typically allow users
to borrow books and other materials, i.e., take off the premises temporarily; they also have noncirculating reference collections and provide computer and Internet access to patrons.

2. Need of the study

2.1. A lot of citizen to pressure the higher education will working and public libraries are major
institution which support the higher learning
2.2. The study will propose how to overcome this difficulties problem to the citizen to pressure
their study.

3. Significant of the research

The study will signify the different stack holder who will be interested in pressuring their
research through public libraries issues which will be studied will research
3.1. Identifying potential users
3.2. Analyzing users needs
3.3. Developing services to groups and individuals
3.4. Promoting user education
3.5. Co-operating and sharing resources
3.6. Ensuring access to services

4. Statement of the problem

4.1. The modern researchers need easy and accessible and authentic information through
libraries.
4.2. The public libraries are the open universities for informal education by developing research
centre in by developing research centre in public libraries. The interested scholars will have an
opportunity to pressure their research work without any problem of time and finances.
4.3. The researchers of modern era lacks comprehensive resources in any libraries and this
problem can be closed by through public libraries.

5. Objective of the study

5.1. To study the resource of public libraries for researchers
5.2. To find out the frequency and purpose of using public library by researchers
5.3. To rate the qualitative and quantitative information resources are made available in Public
library for the researchers
5.4. To ascertain the problems being faced by the researchers

6. Hypotheses
6.1. The public libraries in Goa need consort efforts to fulfill information needs of the
researchers.
6.2. The Goa public libraries lacks academic to play a vital work in collection building for
research work.
6.3. Public libraries lack infrastructure fowl professional ethnics in happier research.

7. Scope and Limitation of research

The scope of the present study is limited to all Public libraries of Goa which identify the
level of Use of the library for research and for finding information relating to the users
education and leisure interests, brings people into informal contact with other members of the
community. Using the public library can be a positive social experience

The study will be limited to central library, District library and taluka library functioning
only.

8. Research methodology
8.1. The investigator will conduct a survey method of public libraries of Goa i.e. Central library,
District library and Taluka library.
8.2. The investigator will try to collect different data collection tools such as questionnaire,
interview for the expert in library, observation and personal discussion with the researchers.
8.3. The questionnaire will be frame keeping in view of the hypothesis of the study.
8.4. Personal visit and interviews with librarian/ information officers will be conducted to gather
the qualitative data of information.
8.5. Questionnaires framed will be distributes to researchers/ user of the Public libraries of Goa.
8.6. The data collection from the researcher/user will be analyze, interpret and tabulate the data
to ascertain analysis with suitable statistical.
8.7. various from of graphs and charts will be used in presentation of the data analyze to make
interpretation clear and precise.

9. Population study
The study will invold all the researchers visiting in central library, District library and
taluka library of Goa and expert in the field will be interview to have compressive study.

10. Organization of study

The whole dissertation will be divided into six chapters. The brief outline of the chapter
is given below
Chapter 1: Introduction
This chapter will deal with the introduction, need, statement of the problem, objective,
hypotheses, scope and limitation, methodology and Chapterization of the present study.

Chapter 2: Review of literature

This will be a review of literature related to the research area. The components are, Public
libraries of Goa, Promoting research needs, etc
Chapter 3: Geomorphology of Goa
This chapter will deal with the Geomorphology of Public libraries Goa State. It also
glances at the different aspects like Education, Culture and Economy etc.
Chapter 4: Salient features of Public libraries as resources centre
This chapter will explain the salient features of Public libraries for research education as
well as the rate the qualitative and quantitative information resources are made available in
Public library for the researchers
Chapter 5: Data interpretation and analysis
In this chapter collected data will be systematically analyzed and results will be presented
in tabular form and interpreted for thorough understanding.
Chapter 6: Finding, Suggestion, Conclusions
In this chapter an attempt will be made to enlist the findings of the study, suggestions and
conclusion.

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