• Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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• v.33 no.1
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• pp.479-497
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• 2022

The present study aimed to examine how the quality of cultural program services, 'Libraries on the Road' influences users' satisfaction, quality of life, and loyalty to the cultural program services. Online surveys were conducted with users who had participated in 'Library on the Road' of public libraries, and collected 138 valid data. The study verified the hypotheses through structural equation model analysis. Findings of the study indicated that the higher the service quality of 'Library on the Road', the higher users' satisfaction. Users' satisfaction had positive effects on users' quality of life and loyalty to the services. The study extended the literature for the association between the service quality of a particular cultural program that public libraries had provided, users' satisfaction, quality of life, and loyalty to the cultural program.

• KLA journal
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• v.54 no.8
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• pp.12-16
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• 2013

• KLA journal
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• v.51 no.10
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• pp.55-57
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• 2010

• KLA journal
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• v.54 no.8
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• pp.17-25
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• 2013

• KLA journal
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• v.55 no.1
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• pp.21-24
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• 2013

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.48 no.4
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• pp.49-76
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• 2017

Free learning semester aims to foster key competencies in junior high students via reinforcing student participation and career education. This paper investigates the programs of school and public libraries, as well as the roles that university libraries and LIS could play in the changing educational environment. School libraries, though an essential element in the educational infrastructure, are seriously underused. In addition, the support programs of public libraries tend to focus on guest lectures or field trips, rather than reinforcing the students to experience the foundational library services. Public libraries are in a good position to play an active role in strengthening school libraries. They should take a proactive role in forming a partnership with university libraries, LIS faculty and students, and in developing diverse programs ranging from vocational/career education to enhancing key competencies.

• Cross-Cultural Studies
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• v.50
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• pp.347-370
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• 2018

This paper proposes a new direction for Comparative Literature which has been deeply Eurocentric and even colonial ever since its birth. 'Comparison' in Comparative Literature has been in fact the ideological mechanism for containing, classifying, and eventually controlling all differences in the world. Literature has naturally served as a national institution of the West at epistemological and discursive level with hidden adjective "comparative". To re-conceptualize the discipline and practice of "Comparative Literature", we need to revolutionize methodology itself based on Wai Chee Dimock's idea of "Weak Theory", Foucault's "disappearance of author", and Clifford Geertz's "thick description". "Thick description" as a methodology of comparative literature re-establishes the discipline as a field of "weak theory", defusing the centrality of linguistic identity and re-making it as a "long network" of loose and missed connections. "Thick description" poses the publicness of nation-state within "confusion of tongues", problematizes the legitimacy of modern knowledge, and puts (the western) nationalism in question. With this idea as a starting point, we can re-imagine Comparative Literature anew as a field of ceaseless discourse of longer, weaker, and thicker networks of interpretation and re-interpretation of differences.