การสำรวจปริมาณและคุณภาพของหนังสือภาษาอังกฤษ ด้านสังคมศาสตร์และมนุษยศาสตร์ที่เกี่ยวกับประเทศไทย ในหอสมุดกลางจุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย / วรลักษณ์ ชุมสาย ณ อยุธยา = A survey of the quantity and the quality of English-language books on social sciences and humanities aspect of Thailand in the Central Library, Chulalongkorn University / Woralak Jumsai
The purposes of this thesis are : 1. To survey the adequacy in quantity of English- language books about Thailand in the fields of Social Sciences and Humanities which have been adding to the collection in the Central Library, Chulalongkorn University through the period of more than 60 years, 2. To evaluate the quality of the collection. Procedures of the research : In order to find out the adequacy of the collection, the researcher compared the total number of the collection to that in the other three important libraries : the National Library, the Central Library, Thammasart University and the Siam Society Library This procedure was done through explicitly counting title cards in the four libraries. Care was exercised to count title with multi copies as one and so it could be said that the method was reliable enough, The collection evaluation was made through constructed criteria under 8 topics of book production ; authority, publisher, date of publication, content,, reliability, arrangement, aids for Searching, format and printing., The researcher read books and other thesis with related scopes to the problem. The first set of criteria was prepared and sent out to 32 experts in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities asking for their suggestions for more authoritative criteria. They were all returned, and new improved set of criteria was prepared accordingly. The results of the research were as follows : 1. The Central Library, Chulalongkorn University owned the smallest number of books. The National Library was top with the total of 2154 books, followed by the Central Library, Thammasart University with 1889 books. The third was the Siam Society Library (1379 books). 2. Through interviews with librarians of the four libraries, it was inferred that there were three main factors affecting the multiplication of the collection ; annual budget, working staff, and the duration of the particular acquisition. Annual addition ranged from 42 titles at the most (Central Library, Thammasart University), to 18 titles at the least (Siam Society Library) The Central Library, Chulalongkorn University came third with 7 tittles fewer than those acquired by the National Library (29 books). 3. As for the results of the evaluation, it could be concluded that the highest percentage of books rated as "good" were 49 percent and 53 percent in Social Sciences and Humanities respectively. There were none under the “poor" column, and about 4 percent in Humanities and 3.5 percent in Social Sciences were rated ’’not so good.” The percentage of books rated "very good" in, In Social Sciences was greater (31.5 percent) than that in Humanities (16.5 percent). 4. The majority of books were rated good in all aspects except in the area of date of publication. Social Sciences books had four components rated as very good ; publishers, content, reliability, and format and printing while the other three concerning authority, arrangement, and aid for searching were rated "good." The date of publication was marked as "not so good." Books on Humanities were evaluated "very good" in three aspects ; publishers, content, format and printing; and were rated "good" in the rest excluding the date of publication. 5. In comparing the quality of the two subjects, the average point of the quality of Social Sciences books was 33.98 and the average point of -the quality of books on Humanities was 32.83 (full score 40). Social Sciences books were a little better than books on Humanities because the former had higher scores the topic of reliability. However the average point of both subjects was "good" Recommdations are directed three ways ; 1. To librarians of the Central Library, Chulalongkorn University:- 1.1 Books of high historical values should be sought out for better maintenance. Photoduplicated copies should be made for loan while the original ones are kept in the rare book section. 1.2 Catalog cards of the collection should be revised and produced in book form for better distribution to other libraries. 1.3 A union catalog would be very beneficial to students and researchers who are interested in these two subjects. 1.4 Appropriation should be annually made for this particular acquisition project as well as a full-time librarian to be assigned for such responsibility. 1.5 Reference librarians can use an annotated bibliography in the appendix of, this research for their services to requested users. 2. To the authors and publishers : 2.1 Books in this collection are very old, and some are not very up-to-date. Therefore a new revised edition should be prepared. 2.2 The constructed criteria should be used as guidelines for the improvement of further publications. 3.For Further research 3.1 Preparation of the highly selective bibliography with informative abstracts should be made for the whole collection in the ’’Thai Room” 3.2 Content analysis of books under each topic such as Thai Arts, Thai History, Thai Politics and Government should be made for better access to the collection. 3.3 This research is aimed only as a basic survey concerning the quantity of the Social Sciences and Humanities collection housed in the "Thai Room" at the Central Library Chulalongkorn University. Therefore, it is recommended that further research should aim to search for the list of books in the two field collected in other libraries which the Central Library, Chulalongkorn University has missed in order that librarians can try to make the collection as complete as possible.
