اتجاهات القراء نحو القراءة و دور المكتبي خلال جائحة كورونا

الملخص EN

This study aimed to identify the reading changes that occurred to the beneficiaries of the services of Al-Mustansiriya University libraries in Baghdad during the Corona pandemic.

The research sought to identify the aspects of change that occurred in the users' desires and their new reading habits after they were forced to stay in their homes, in order to update library services in a way that suits these aspects of change.

A questionnaire was developed to collect the necessary data for the purposes of this study and distributed to an intentional sample of users from the libraries of Al-Mustansiriya University, especially faculty members, students and researchers.

A survey that included 16 items was distributed among the libraries of the 18 colleges and centers of Al-Mustansiriya University.

The research reached a set of results related to changing the reading habits of the users in various aspects, namely: changing reading times, changing the forms of information sources that the users are searching for, and changing the quality of their objective interests during the pandemic, and in harmony with these changes, the research recommended the necessity of the university libraries’ interest in responding to these changes in the interests of the users, forming alliances and partnerships with other libraries, and providing the largest possible number of electronic information sources and making them available through the websites of university libraries.