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http://dx.doi.org/10.16981/kliss.51.202003.349

A Study on the Book Circulation Rules of Public Library in Korea  

Yoon, Hee-Yoon (대구대학교 문헌정보학과)
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Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society / v.51, no.1, 2020 , pp. 349-372 More about this Journal
Abstract
Regardless of East and West, public libraries provide various services to their communities based on collections. The decisive reason for local residents to visit public libraries is to access and borro w collections. An important condition maintenance to support these activities and services is the library circulation(usage) rules. Therefore, this study compared and analyzed the library membership, maximum loan items, loan period, loan reserve and renewal, overdue fines, disposal of lost and damaged items, loan of non-book materials, loan regulations for the disabled. And after checking the relative deviations in connection with the library cases of major developed countries, this study proposed the improvement of circulation rules. In order to minimize public complaints about circulation services and to relieve the burden of practitioners such as personnel disadvantage due to administrative audit for non-recoverable ite ms, public libraries must faithfully rearrange the circulation rules and regulations.
Keywords
Public library; Circulation rule and regulation; Loan policy; Maximum loan items; Loan period; Overdue fines;
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