دور مكتبات الأطفال العامة في محافظة عمان في تشجيع ارتياد الأطفال لها و تنمية عادة القراءة لديهم من وجهة نظر العاملين فيها و الأطفال المرتادين لها

Abstract EN

The study aims to investigate the role of the public children’s libraries of the province of Amman in encouraging children to use libraries and to develop their reading habit from the point of view of libraries’ workers and users of children, through two questionnaires ; one for the workers in children’s libraries and the second one for users of children.

The study population consisted of two categories: workers in children public libraries in the province of Amman.

They are 90 workers ; 50 (or 55.6 %) of them were responded.

The second category is the children who use the libraries.

56 children were selected as a sampl by chance whome were in the libraries at the time of distribution of the questionnaire.

The study revealed that most services / activities encourage children to use libraries and develop their reading habit are circulation and reading the story ; while the leat sevices / activities are plays, lectures, seminars and exhibitions.

Also the study revield that there were statistically significant differences at the level of significance (a ≤ 0.05) between the answers of the respondences for more than a vairiable.

One of them related to the variable of sex towords the effects of the libraries’ location in encouraging the use of libraries and the development of their reading habit.

In light of the results, the study recommended several recommendations such as: improving the sites of the children’s libraries, area, furniture, office hours, staff treatment, and updating the library collections in accordance with the characteristics of children, their interests and informatics needs to increase their their use of the libraries and to develop and to develop their reading habit.

Also to offer provided services / activities to children in a manner commensurate with their characteristics, especially traditional and electronic games, plays, panel discussions, leisure and scientific trips, and facilitate doing children research through the updated library collections.