Teesside, University of

Barriers to libraries as agents of lifelong learning

The research was conducted in 1999 to check the assumption that some
students in Further and Higher Education experience barriers to accessing
Libraries as agents of Lifelong Learning. 422 students in Further
Education and 518 in Higher Education completed questionnaires about their
use of Libraries, Public and Academic; of these 31 also took part in
in-depth interviews. Some relationships were found between the degree of
their perceived barriers and variables such as: gender, Social Class,
ethnic origin, previous occupation, previous experience of Library use and
access to a PC in the home. Other issues raised included students'
perceptions of insufficiency in the provision of textbooks, IT workstations
and staffing levels.

URL: http://www.tees.ac.uk/depts/lis/lisresearch/researchbh.cfm
Contact: Dr. Barbara Hull, [email protected]
Dates: December 1998 - December 1999
Funding: £30,000