braries eading newspapers and magazines for which a. ‘separate. ief Librarian along with the four branch librarians recently discx libraries. They almost unanimously decided to know precisely O' lened. It would like the study be an exploratory research but instes to users of library, non-users should also be covered, for this purpose. It suggestes “A § groups—one for users and another for non-users be used. Each such group should. ‘8 to 10 persons. The user-group should have persons from different branches as well as from Central Library. As regards non-users, it would be desirable to ensure that their group is bro comparable with the user-group. The exploratory phase of the study should be followed by Phase I which would be confined employees working in libraries. The Agency felt that as the library staff is directly in touch the users, they understand better the interests and problems, if any, of the users, They shotld al ‘be encouraged to offer suggestions based on their experience in dealing with the public, © The Agency recommended Phase III of the study exclusively for the general public. The respe dents can be split into two categories, viz. those having telephones and those who haye no telephones, | The questions will be on their attitudes towards libraries, how important and useful.a library canbe | in improving their knowledge as well as the feeling that the time spent in reading books borrowed from libraries is well-spent. In addition, they will be asked to indicate the subjects in which they are | interested and the timings that suit them most. | Questions 1. Evaluate each phase of the research proposal indicating how far it is feasible and appropri ate. 2. Isitpossible to improve the research design comprising all the three phases as given above? | If so, what improvements would you recommend? | 3. Identify the sources of potential errors likely to arise during the course of research, How does the research design attempt to control these errors?