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http://dx.doi.org/10.4275/KSLIS.2018.52.1.113

A Study on the Formation Process and Sustainability of Community of Practice in Public Libraries  

Park, Seong-Woo (광주대학교 문헌정보학과)
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Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science / v.52, no.1, 2018 , pp. 113-131 More about this Journal
Abstract
The study is to prove the necessity of librarian as the coordinator for the building and sustenance of "Community of Practice" in public libraries. Therefore, The study reviews literatures and conducts a survey how librarians think of their work from the perspective of CoP. The results of this study are as follows: "Community of Practice(CoP)" is the kind of community composed of "Domain", "Community" and "Practice" for knowledge circulation; The coordinator neither leader in CoP nor manager outside of CoP is necessary to sustain CoP by supporting management of CoP and promoting knowledge sharing; The programs and clubs designed by public librarians are potential CoPs; The potential CoPs turn into the sustainable CoPs when the participants of programs turn into the directors of programs; It means the coordinator of CoP is librarian in case of public libraries.
Keywords
Public Library; Communities of Practice; Librarian; Coordinator;
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