14. starptautiskā konference 2012 - Latvijas Jūras akadēmija

Proceedings of 14th International conference „Maritime Transport and Infrastructure - 2012”3. Lithuanian Maritime Academy library working hours evaluation by the studentsThe survey was taken between 1 st – 3 rd year students of all study programs in order to evaluatethe activity of library and 319 students took part in this survey (fig. 3.).35%30%25%20%15%10%5%0%29%Maritime Navigation27%Port and ShippingManagement23%Marine Engineering21%Port and ShippingFinanceFig. 3 Spread of the respondents between study programsWorking hours of the library is important to students so they suggested the most convenientlibrary visiting time: 49% of students told that the library should be opened from Monday to Thursday,so it is assumed that present working hours are comfortable, 28% of students wish for library to extendstaffs working hours by one hour, until 6 p.m. and 9% of students would visit library until 7 p.m. inthe evening, 4% of students suggested other time, convenient to their interests (fig. 4.).60%50%49%40%30%28%20%10%9% 9%4%0%Work time from 8till 17Work time from 8till 18Work time from 8till 19Work time from 8till 20OtherFig. 4 Evaluation of most convenient library visiting time from Monday to ThursdayMore than a half of respondents (55%) told that library should also work on Fridays until 4p.m. About one third of students (28%) said that library on Fridays should work as long as it doesfrom Monday to Thursday and the same amount of students would like the library to work onSaturdays. Therefore the majority of students are satisfied with present working hours of the library,one third would like it to work also on Friday as it does other days and one third would be happy ifthey could visit the library on Saturdays.135