Comparative Analysis On User Demand Based On The Different Value Between Archives And Books

Archives is the original symbol record of human practice activities which memoriesand saves the precious wealth of humanity and history. Book is a work literature thathuman use pictures or symbols to record. Book is a kind of human knowledge storageform relatively stable and basic which comparing to other types of literature is moreconducive to the dissemination and utilization. Archives and books as an important formof cultural and historical accumulation are an important part of social culture. They havegreat significance and impact on a national culture and cultural development. Adhere tothe "people-oriented" concept, comprehensive archives and public library should paymore attention to the study of users. According to the user’s information demand, thearchives and library provide a more advanced, scientific, effective service model to meetthe needs of users. The due to the different of uses’ demand is the different values.Different value determines the users’ psychological, behavior and the actual use of theeffection. This paper make a comparative analysis of the archives value and book value.The fundamental value of archives is the value that experience which expresses in theform of three aspects named credentials, reference role, emotional role. The value ofbook is defined as the accumulation and dissemination of knowledge and information Itis a more reference value. The different of the value decides the users’ two differentneeds between archives and books. The uses’ demand to archives show more rigidcharacteristic, but the uses’ demand to books is not mandatory for elasticity. In the lastpart of the paper, it is according to the different value between archives and booksanalysing the phenomenon from the comparative study of user demand, demand motive,the behavior of the object and the actual use of the effect.