Abstract:
The purpose of this research is to study the usage and services of business periodicals provided by the library of the Faculty of Commerce and Accountancy. It is to determine the problems: of users: (faculty members, graduate and undergraduate students), their needs, opinions, and suggestions. The periodicals studied are grouped into : their specialized fields in business, the currentness (age), the frequency of their usage, other factors: that affect their usage. The findings of the research are : (1) faculty members and graduate students frequently use Thai and foreign periodicals; (2) undergraduate students: use mostly Thai periodicals and use foreign periodicals at low rate; (3) as a whole, Thai periodicals are used more than foreign ones; (5) the currentness of the periodicals used is one year; (5) the users fields of study/teaching are relevant to that of the periodicals they use; (6) the users also use periodicals out of their fields: of study/teaching. The factors that affect the use of periodicals are : the fields of study/teaching; language of periodicals; time of research; currentness of periodicals; goals of usage; the library's procedures in providing periodical services such as acquisition, shelfing and indexing.