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A Field Perception and Agenda of Intellectual Freedom and Censorship Issues in Library

지적자유와 도서관 장서검열 문제의 현장 인식과 과제

  • 배경재 (동덕여자대학교 문헌정보학과)
  • Received : 2022.04.25
  • Accepted : 2022.05.17
  • Published : 2022.05.31
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Abstract

This study was conducted to find a task to adjust the conflict situation by categorizing and analyzing the recent cases of library book censorship and analyzing the field perception on the subject of library book censorship. Therefore, recent cases of book censorship were categorized into four categories: political, legal, sexuality, and sex crime. As a result of the study, 44.5% of the respondents who answered that the restriction on access to books related to sex crimes was not a library censorship or that it was difficult to judge. It showed the perception that this issue is not an issue that can be easily decided by book censorship. Meanwhile, as a result of a survey of librarians, there was an opinion that there was a need for restrictions on collecting or reading at the library site for various reasons, and eventually showed a gap from the code of ethics for librarians against all censorship, showing the need to make efforts to reconcile such conflicts in the future.

본 연구는 최근 발생하고 있는 도서관 장서검열 문제 사례를 유형화하여 분석하고, 도서관 장서검열 주제에 대한 도서관계의 현장 인식을 분석하여 갈등상황을 조정하기 위한 과제를 찾기 위해 수행되었다. 따라서 최근의 장서검열 문제 사례를 정치적 이슈, 법률적 이슈, 선정성 이슈, 성범죄 이슈의 4가지 범주로 유형화하였으며 이에 대한 도서관계의 인식을 조사하였다. 연구결과 성범죄 관련 장서 열람 제한 조치가 장서검열이 아니라고 답하거나, 판단하기 어렵다고 답한 응답자의 비율이 총 44.5%로 해당 이슈를 장서검열로 쉽게 결정을 내릴 수 있는 문제가 아니라는 인식을 보여주었다. 한편 사서 대상 설문조사 결과, 도서관 현장에서 다양한 이유로 수서제한 또는 열람제한 조치가 필요하다는 의견이 제기되었으며, 결국 일체의 검열에 반대한다는 도서관 윤리선언과의 괴리를 나타내어 향후 이와 같은 갈등을 조정하기 위한 노력이 필요함을 보여주었다.

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이 논문은 2021년도 동덕여자대학교 학술연구비 지원에 의하여 수행된 것임.

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