Library management and reader service on students’ psychological well-being

Abstract

Background

The library, as a quiet and warm learning place, provides a good reading environment and learning resources for college students. Study the impact of library management and reader service improvement on readers’ mental health and personality improvement, in order to further provide a good learning environment and services for college students.

Subjects and Methods

The study selected two freshmen from the same class with different majors in a certain university for an experiment. Class A adopted traditional library management and reader service models and served as the control group; Class B adopts the upgraded library management and reader service model as the experimental group, with an experimental period of one semester. A questionnaire survey was conducted on the psychological health and personality improvement of two groups of students before and after the experiment, and Excel and SPSS22.0 were used as analysis and statistical tools.

Results

The research results indicate that there is a significant difference in the level of mental health and personality improvement between the experimental group and the control group after the experiment. The average mental health level and personality improvement level of the experimental group students were higher than those of the control group, with results of (93.27 ± 0.25) and (80.24 ± 1.63), respectively.

Conclusions

The management and reader service improvement of university libraries have a positive impact on the psychological health and personality improvement of college students’ readers.

Acknowledgement

2016 Tianjin Education Planning Project, Research on the co construction and sharing of library resources of Higher Vocational Colleges in Tianjin Education Park (No.vesp3003).