People at young adult age in Czech libraries: results of pilotage research

Abstract

This paper presents a dissertation topic Perception of public libraries in society, with focus on the target group of nonusers aged approximately between 25 and 35 years. According to recent surveys of readers and reading in the Czech Republic, people in younger adulthood represents one of the weakest target groups in the Czech public libraries.

The article defines this target group and presents results of pilot experiment, which was conducted in cooperation with students of the Insitute of Information Studies and Librarianship, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague.

Keywords

• Adult people
• Czech Republic
• information behaviour
• library users
• postgraduate study
• public libraries
• young people
• target groups.