Thailand Libraries ‘need funding and staff’

Looks Like money is a problem all over the world… The Education Council in Thailand asked librarians and 7,260 visitors to 244 libraries across the country to evaluate services. The results showed most were substandard, mainly because of lack of funding. Chutima said inferior public relations also meant libraries often failed to inform visitors about their services.

Lack of personnel was another significant problem as most of the libraries had only two librarians, 48 per cent had no librarian’s assistant, 96 per cent didn’t have a clerk and 56 per cent had no janitor.