Abstract:
The objective of this research was to study an evaluation of library service quality in Rangsit University Library and Information Center on the level of expectation and level of service received by using 5 evaluating criteria, which were the effect of service, veliability, tangibility, information access, and library as place, and to study the user satisfaction towards the quality of the service as a whole. The population of the study was lecturers, Master's students, and Bachelor's students. The research result showed that all 3 groups of users had high expectation on all the 5 criteria of service, with the same highest average for reliability and library as place. When considering each group, the result showed that the highest average expectation of lecturers and Master's students was library as place, while that of Bachelor's students was on reliability. As for the service received, it was found that users received actual service on 4 criteria of which the highest average was on reliability and medium level on 1 criterion, which was service tangibility. When considering each group, it was found that lecturers received actual service in a high level on all 5 criteria of which the highest average was on reliability. Master's and Bachelor's students received actual service on 2 levels which were high and medium level. Master's students received actual service in the medium level on 2 criteria, which were information access and service tangibility, while Bachelor's students received actual service in medium level on 1 criterion, which was service tangibility. The user satisfaction towards the quality of the service as a whole was in the high level. The average difference of user expectation for all 3 groups of users was on 4 criteria while 1 criterion had no difference, which was tangibility. The average difference of the service received was on all criteria. From the 3 hypothesis given-which were 1) There is no difference in the library service quality expectation of lecturers, Master's students, and Bachelor's students on 5 criteria; 2) There is a difference in all the 5 criteria of service quality received by lecturers, Master's students, and Bachelor's students; and 3) Users have medium level of satisfaction towards the quality of the library service as a whole-it can be concluded that the research result was in accordance to 1 hypothesis, which was hypothesis number 2. As for hypothesis number 1, the majority of the result was not in accordance to the hypothesis because users have different library service quality expectation on 4 criteria. Finally, the result was not in accordance to hypothesis number 3 because users have high level of satisfaction towards the quality of the library service as a whole