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The study aimed the following objectives: analysing the needs of the library users; identifying the degree of user satisfaction related to the services offered by the library; identifying the factors that can increase the use of the library; analyzing the way the library is perceived. To achieve these goals, several key questions have been identified: How often do the students use libraries? What are the factors that influence the choice of the library as a space for study and information? What are the tools used to find the information? What are the values and role of the library in society? The method for the data collection was the questionnaire distributed to 50 student users and comprising 26 questions structured as follows: the user profile, the use of the library services, the values promoted by the infodocumentary structures, suggestions and comments (for the library and / or for the questionnaire). The results show that the library is used extensively by students for study and information/documentation. They appreciate the peace of mind, the atmosphere, the study and information conditions, and the assistance offered by the library personnel. Lesser known and used are the specialized information services of the library: the access to the databases, the bibliographies on request, the interlibrary loan. Overall, the library is perceived as an important institution for the cultural and educational development of the community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Medgidia City Library was established in 1949 with a collection of publications consisting of donations from other libraries, mostly brochures. Currently, the institution is the most important public library in the city, with a rich cultural tradition, with over 75,000 encyclopedic book volumes and collections of periodicals, organized according to library standards. The library is also a center for information, professional and intellectual training of community members. The author makes a brief historical and social journey of the library in its 50 years of existence, presenting the most important activities and events carried out or organized by it from its establishment until 2019. Throughout 2019, the library has hosted numerous symposia, book launches and courses, offering readers in Medgidia and implicitly library users, the opportunity to meet prestigious writers. Over the years, the threshold of the library has been crossed by great writers: Mihail Sadoveanu, Tudor Arghezi, Corneliu Leu, Francisc Munteanu, Cristian Teodorescu, as well as by personalities from Medgidia, which confirms that in Constanța County, it was and will remain one of the best equipped and appreciated local libraries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The digital world causes libraries to reconfigure their services and information architecture, in accordance with its specific goals: accessibility, simplicity, gratuitousness, multiculturality, multimediality. As tools for promoting the services provided by the libraries, as media for popularizing educational, cultural or recreational activities and as mechanisms for interaction with the public, the social networks have many advantages: attracting new users, exponential growing the public interest in the events organized or hosted by the libraries, disseminating the multimedia information content and informations of utilitarian nature, increasing the frequency of the interactions with the users and so on. The social networks have given rise to a new type of library management (e-management), oriented towards an intersubjective axis (e-services, e-documents, e-public), as well as towards an objective axis (the chosen online communication channels). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]