Abstract
For the purpose of efficient management and utilizing educational media in a school, each school should maintain a school media center within the building. On the other hand, a regional media center is concepted among people who are concerned with audiovisual instruction so that educational institutions and educationists in that region are able to utilize educational media. And anyone in the community expects to learn through these media on the spot. A regional media center may be realized by amplifificating an audiovisual library that was established in most regions after the World War II. But, in reserches and statistics on concerning to audiovisual library, it is apparent that audiovisual libraries are suffered from many problems. This study aims to clarify such problems that audiovisual library are confronting through analizing the observation reports from users' view point. Authers asked university students to visit and observe an audiovisual library individually wherever he or she was interested, and to make essey type report on the basis of his or her own observation and materials collected. Total number of reports is two hundred and sixty-six. Keywords in each report statement were collected and grouped by the K-J Technique. Two hundred and Ninety-one words are found valid, Fig.l shows the grouping of their words. Findings as follows; (1) Staffing talented audiovisual library specialists and/or other persons comes to central figure of the problems. (2) Enough budget for establishing and running audiovisual library is fundamental.
