Purulia District Library: An Evaluative Study

Library survey is a systematic collection of data concerning libraries, their activities, operations, staff use and users, at a given time or over a given period. The purpose of this paper “Purulia District Library: An Evaluative Study” conducted to study the existing library conditions, library facilities, library personnel, nature of users and non-users, library services, library resources; to compare the present conditions and desired standards; to make suggestions for their improvement; and to develop library standards. The methodology adopted for the present study is survey using a structured questionnaire, observation and informal interview with library staff and users. And the findings these survey that library collection, budget, manpower, skilled staff, services all are precise but library automation work is very slow and Information Communication and Technology application is very low level.