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http://dx.doi.org/10.4275/KSLIS.2017.51.4.183

An Analysis of Staffing of Public Librarians and Staffing Standards for Public Libraries  

Kwon, Nahyun (명지대학교 문헌정보학과)
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Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science / v.51, no.4, 2017 , pp. 183-201 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to examine the current staffing practices in public libraries and to analyze the relevance of legal standards of public library staffing. It analyzed the national library statistical data to obtain the national average staffing rate, reviewed related literature to understand the rationales that established the key attributes that construct the current legal standards, and compared the placement rates of the three standards, namely the current legal standards, Korean Library Association's standards, and IFLA staffing standards, to determine the optimacy of the legal standards. It found the current placement rate in the legal standard was only 18.2%, marking the lowest rates among the three compared standards, indicating the current legal standards being unnecessarily high. The study attributes the problem to the structure of the current legal standards that calculate the staffing size based on the building and collection size rather than service populations. The findings of this study suggest a revision of the current standard based on service population while retaining the minimum staffing of three librarians even the smallest public library unit.
Keywords
Staffing Standards; Public Libraries; Staffing Statistics;
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