We analysed the content and use of the reference collection in the Main Reading Room of NUK. Earlier research on the use and analysis of the reading room collection has been included. The purpose of our research was to analyse the use of the collection, show the content and language structure of the collection and obtain data that would be useful in the development of the collection in the future. Based on data collected on 8.3.2022, the collection was analysed by language, term lists, UDC for search and type of content. The analysis of the use referred to the five-year period 2017 - 2021 and included which material from the collection was most often used. Use was also analysed based on the type of content, UDC for search and language. We showed the use of the collection by years and by individual months during the analysed period. We determined the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic on use of the collection. We analysed the proportion between the number of titles in the collection from different language fields and UDC groups and the number of borrowed titles from these same fields. We compared the results of our research with previous similar research.
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