Rural literacy –cooperation of Polish young country dwellers with public libraries Riga 2008

Basic information about the research Date - year 2006 Respondents - staff of 308 rural libraries from all of Poland and 1352 students of rural secondary schools

Client of rural libraries - age

Students – sources of reading materials School library – 64% Public library – 60% Home book collection – 51% Purchases – 40% Book borrowed from friends and relatives – 36%

Client of library versus users of other sources of reading materials

Collections and purchases – year 2005 Collection – volumes Collection for children and adolescents – 8341 volumes Books purchased in year 2005 – 812 volumes Books for children and adolescents purchased in year 2005 – 262 volumes

Library staff - sources of information about books for children and adolescents Internet – 73% Publishers cataloques – 66% Press – 59% Schools – 54% Other libraries – 31% Radio, television – 26%

The motivations of library staff (respondents could indicate more than one reason) „Readers would like this book in my opinion” – 81,2% of book „This is the quality book – they should read it”– 46,5% „Clients asked me for this book (not for school reasons)” – 33% „Readers need this book for school” – 14,5%

Classic and contemporary literature among purchases of the library

Classic and contemporary literature among books read by students

Student’s assessment of library collection of school literature „Can you find the books you need for school at the public library”?

The sources of classic books

The sources of contemporary literature

Student’s assessment of leisure books collection „Can you find at the public library books you would like to read for pleasure?”

Contemporary literature