A Study on the Development of Children's Library Classification

어린이도서 분류법의 개발에 관한 연구

Currently, our country doesn't have standard children's library classification whose development reflects characteristics of children's library and children's books, and for this, not only the children's library working staffs but also users have to deal with a lot of discomforts and difficulties. This study was to take into account these facts of reality and attempted to develop Children's Library Classification (CLC) that is widely applicable to children's libraries. For this, the paper examined the category of children's books and analyzed classification conditions of children's library. Based on this examination and analysis, the paper developed CLC. This study finds its meaning in that the CLC developed by this study was based on KDC, was newly reformed for children's library, and was developed by reflecting the characteristics of children's library and children's books as much as possible in the formation of classification category and progression level per subject; the author expects that it could actually be applied to classification of children's books regardless of the size and type of children's libraries.

현재 우리나라에는 어린이도서관과 어린이도서의 특성을 반영하여 개발된 표준적인 어린이도서 분류법이 없어, 어린이도서관 실무자뿐만 아니라 이용자들이 많은 불편과 어려움을 감수하고 있다 이 연구는 이러한 현실을 고려하여 어린이도서관에서 보편적으로 적용 가능한 어린이도서 분류법을 개발하고자 시도되었다. 이를 위해 어린이도서에 대한 범주를 조사한 후 어린이도서관 자료의 유별 현황을 분석하고, 이를 바탕으로 어린이도서 분류법을 개발하였다. 이 연구에서 개발된 어린이도서 분류법은 KDC를 기본으로 하여 어린이도서관을 위해 새로이 설계된 형태로, 분류항목 설정과 주제별 전개수준에 있어 어린이도서관과 어린이도서의 특성을 최대한 반영하여 개발하였다는데 그 의의가 있다.