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http://dx.doi.org/10.3743/KOSIM.2020.37.3.203

A Study on the Librarians' Perception of Public Library about the Response to the COVID-19  

Noh, Younghee (건국대학교 문헌정보학과)
Chang, Rosa (숭의여자대학교 문헌정보과)
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Journal of the Korean Society for information Management / v.37, no.3, 2020 , pp. 203-220 More about this Journal
Abstract
With the COVID-19 pandemic being prolonged, the society is being converted into an untact society, thereby affecting the service methodology of domestic and foreign library systems. This study thus surveyed the librarians' awareness of COVID-19 response measures of public libraries, and proposed public libraries' response measures in situations where the novel infectious disease is spreading and prolonging. Specifically, the proposed measures include, first, preparing national-centered library countermeasures to jointly respond to the epidemic disease, second, strengthening various untact and online services of various public libraries through government-level budget support, third, a thorough prevention of epidemics and preemptive response from the viewpoint of employees and users, and fourth, the expansion of library services aimed at resolving the digital cultural divide among classes of people, including information unfairness.
Keywords
COVID-19; epidemic disease; response; public library; librarians' perception;
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