Shifting temporal patterns in physical usage of a health sciences library following the extension of operational hours.

IF 2.9 4区 医学 Q1 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE Journal of the Medical Library Association Pub Date : 2024-10-01 Epub Date: 2024-10-07 DOI:10.5195/jmla.2024.1812
G J Corey Harmon, Kerry Sewell
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Background: Students regularly state a strong preference for increased library operational hours to accommodate learning needs. While many academic libraries provide extended hours, academic health sciences libraries appear to adopt such models less frequently. This is not due to lower levels of student demand for extended hours.

Case presentation: In response to student preferences for increased hours, our institution shifted its budget to provide an additional 10 weekend hours (Friday-Sunday). This study is a post-hoc assessment of temporal changes in physical library use over weekend days pre- and post-implementation of extended hours. This study used (non-exam) weekend physical library usage data one year before and after implementing extended hours (January 2018-January 2020). We ran descriptive statistics to assess the hourly use pattern changes in physical library usage.

Conclusion: For the regular academic year, students arrived earlier and stayed later, with less severe hourly peaks in opening and closing times physical use patterns seen in the pre-implementation period. Overall, we saw increases in all three areas of physical usage data studied. The data provides evidence of the true need for extended hours among users, along with hourly patterns reflecting a better match of hours with patron study patterns.

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卫生科学图书馆延长开放时间后实际使用时间模式的变化。
背景:学生们经常强烈要求延长图书馆的开放时间,以满足学习需要。虽然许多学术图书馆都提供延时服务,但健康科学学术图书馆似乎较少采用这种模式。这并不是因为学生对延长工作时间的需求较低:为了满足学生对延长开放时间的需求,我们学校调整了预算,增加了 10 个周末开放时间(周五至周日)。本研究是对延长开放时间前后周末实体图书馆使用时间变化的事后评估。本研究使用了延长开放时间前后一年(2018 年 1 月至 2020 年 1 月)的(非考试)周末实体图书馆使用数据。我们通过描述性统计来评估实体图书馆每小时使用模式的变化:在正常学年,学生到校时间较早,离校时间较晚,开馆和闭馆时间的每小时峰值较实施前有所减少。总体而言,我们在所研究的三个方面的实际使用数据中都看到了增长。这些数据证明了用户对延长开放时间的真正需求,同时也反映出每小时的开放时间与用户的学习模式更加匹配。
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Journal of the Medical Library Association
Journal of the Medical Library Association INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE-
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审稿时长
26 weeks
期刊介绍: The Journal of the Medical Library Association (JMLA) is an international, peer-reviewed journal published quarterly that aims to advance the practice and research knowledgebase of health sciences librarianship. The most current impact factor for the JMLA (from the 2007 edition of Journal Citation Reports) is 1.392.
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