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http://dx.doi.org/10.3743/KOSIM.2022.39.2.325

A Study on the Changes of Librarians Perception in the Importance of Library Policy Before and After Pandemic: Focused on N City Public Libraries  

Park, Eunkyoung (한성대학교 문헌정보학과 대학원)
Sim, Jayoung (한성대학교 문헌정보학과 대학원)
Seo, Eun-Gyoung (한성대학교 크리에이티브인문학부)
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Journal of the Korean Society for information Management / v.39, no.2, 2022 , pp. 325-346 More about this Journal
Abstract
Social changes characterized by new normal also demand changes in libraries and libraries are making preemptive efforts. This study compared and analyzed the difference in librarian perceptions between the start of COVID-19 in 2020 and after experiencing the pandemic in 2022 in terms of the relative importance of library policies considered by pairwise comparative analysis. In the 1st survey, the importance of factors related to 'Library Management' and 'Library Services' was high and in the 2nd survey, the importance of factors related to 'Human Resources' and 'Information Resources' increased. This study insists that the public libraries invest in human resources and information resources and establish a user-customized policy in order to quickly adapt to the new paradigm and to provide sustainable library services.
Keywords
library management policy; relative importance; change of librarians perception; library management; human resources; library facilities; information resources; library service; pandemic;
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