• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.211-326
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• 2002

This study is to analyze and evaluate copyright protection environment in digital reproduction and transmission, find out problems involved. and suggest recommendations for improvement. Data was collected 50 libraries to which digital reproduction and transmission is permitted under the Copyright Act were surveyed to examine the present states of digitalization and the systems employed. Also, library users, sampled from 5 libraries carrying out all the 6 technical measures obliged by the Copyright Act, were surveyed to examine their use of digital materials and perception on the copyright. After reviewing descriptive statistics, frequency and cross-tabulation analysis were made. The results of the analysis are most of the libraries. except for the industry university libraries, have implemented digital library systems, but the introduction rate of both digital reproduction system and transmission system are high (68.0% and 84.0%. respectively), while that of copyright protection system was low (26.0%). 84.0% of the libraries surveyed digitalize the full text, but the Libraries have digital collection less than 5,000 items, and only 33.3% of them digitalize materials with securing the copyrights. Regulations on copyright protections are not obliged properly. and it appeared that not only users' perception and perception of copyright as well as their use of electronic books are relatively low.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.42 no.1
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• pp.177-192
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• 2008

The purpose of this study is to investigate what fields of library cooperation system should be resolved and to find out a resolution. A survey are used for research method. The contents of survey is about operating performance and main obstacles of cooperation among other libraries. The results show that most of respondents estimated need of cooperation among libraries and operating performance of cooperation was poor. The system needs to be changed. The problems are insufficiency of budget and personnel. two different types of operating body, insufficiency of standard and committee for cooperation system, delayed speed of integrated retrieval system, limitation of sharing of information about users, insufficiency of user's and librarian's recognition of cooperation system. This study proposes improving method through developed model on cooperation system.

• Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.237-250
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• 2009

This study evaluates Core Competences of Librarianship announced at the congress of American Library Association on January 27th, 2009. For this study, we trained 17 librarians working at academic library, and find out each importance, major intention, required subjects regarding 8 scopes and 40 detailed qualifications indicated Core Competences of Librarianship through survey. The result of this study is that importance order of 8 scopes is organization of recorded knowledge and information, foundations of the profession, reference and user services, and importance order of major intention is foundations of the profession, research, reference and user services respectively. Importance order of required subjects for nurturing Core Competences of Librarianship is library management, information service, and introduction to library and information science, library and information policy, research methods for librarianship, and library automation respectively.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.55 no.1
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• pp.263-288
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• 2024

This study aims to analyze the current status of library automation systems and explore future directions for improvement. The study was conducted by surveying librarians at institutions participating in the KESLI and KCUE consortia to investigate the current status and satisfaction with library automation systems, and the current status and awareness of open source-based library automation systems. The study found that most automation systems currently in use in libraries were developed through outsourcing in the 2000s or 2010s, and that more than 50% of respondents were satisfied with the overall library automation system. Overall satisfaction was found to be influenced by satisfaction with the functionality, customer support services and construction and operational management of the system. Most current library automation systems are not based on open source software or cloud services, but the intention to use them in the future is high, with more than 40% of respondents saying they would use them within three years. This study is expected to serve as an important foundation for building an open source-based library automation system in the future.

• Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.125-145
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• 2014

As Korea becomes a multi-cultural society, Korean government ministries are enforcing various multi-cultural services. Especially, Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, which is in charge of public libraries, is operating multi-cultural services for cultural diversity. The trends in the research on the multi-cultural services in public libraries, however, are rather on adaptation of the multi-cultural people in Korea than on the cultural diversity. In this exploratory study, we investigated the perception of local residences on multi-cultural library services with several in-depth interviews with the local residences not only for the adaptation but also for the cultural diversity. The results shows that they tended to regard public libraries as an institution of local life-long education, and then they think public libraries can take a role for coping with social adaptation and prevention of social problems in terms of multi-cultural population. Based on the results, public libraries would better consider to inform their roles in this multi-cultural society to their local residences based not only on adaptation but also on cultural diversity. For this, the libraries would develop programs, in which both multi-cultural and non-multi-cultural people can be participated, to encourage communication between them.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.53 no.4
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• pp.5-22
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• 2019

The purpose of this study is to analyze the factors that hinder the role recognition and role performance of teacher librarians and suggest some improvement methods. For this purpose, a questionnaire was conducted among 41 persons who participated in the first-level qualification training for teachers librarians at K University Secondary Teacher Training Institute in 2019.The results showed that there was a difference between the expected role and the execution role of the teacher librarians. In other words, teacher librarians recognize that they should teach information literacy as instructors and operate library-based instruction and cooperative classes as teaching partners. However, the most frequently played roles are reading education and library use education. They recognizes the cause as institutional limitations, such as the absence of a national level curriculum and the ambiguity of the role of specialists in school libraries. And it is perceived as a real problem such as the lack of partnership and recognition of their peers. Among the variables of teacher librarians, the higher their educational level, the more they perceived their peers as teachers. Based on this, some suggestions for strengthening the role of the teacher librarians' instructor and teaching partner were proposed in terms of including cross-curricular subjects of information literacy education, analyzing jobs and establishing scholarship system for school libraries.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.52 no.1
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• pp.129-154
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• 2021

The purpose of this descriptive correlational study was to explore the effect of knowledge of evidence-based practice (K-EBP) and organizational culture on the innovation behavior of university librarians in South Korea. The structured survey questionnaire consisted of four sections and 60 items. The four sections were concerned with K-EBP, organizational culture, innovation behavior, and EBP-related activities and demographic. The respondents were librarians working in 101 university libraries in South Korea. The results of this study were as follows. First, K-EBP indicated that the respondents had excellent practical skills, but their ability to appraise critically, apply knowledge and to conduct research was weak. Second, the questionnaire scores for K-EBP were significantly positively correlated with those for organizational culture and innovation behavior. Higher K-EBP scores corresponded to higher scores for relation-, innovation-, and task-oriented organizational culture. Third, K-EBP outcomes differed significantly by age group, education level, employment type, job title/seniority, reading of academic journal articles, and attendance at conferences. Organizational culture differed significantly with age. Innovation differed significantly with both age and conference attendance. Fourth, in the hierarchical multiple regression analysis, factors predicting K-EBP scores were education level and reading academic journals. Fifth, the multiple regression analysis identifying factors predicting innovation revealed statistically significant regression coefficients for overall K-EBP and for innovation- and hierarchy-oriented organizational culture. The regression coefficient for perception of a hierarchy-oriented organizational culture was negative. To promote innovation behavior of librarians, we need to foster an innovative organizational culture characterized by communication and cooperation, and improve the ability of librarians to engage in EBP. Educational programs that promote librarian engagement in research-related activities are needed.

• Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.155-167
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• 2002

To get social recognition and the basis of development of public libraries in the 21st century, the knowledge information age, Public libraries must recognize their social role clearly and perform it effectively. For performance of advisable social role of public libraries, this study proposed that 1) establishment Library's Bill of Rights, 2) abolition of the function of‘reading room’of libraries, 3) reform of the assessment system and introduction of certification system for improvement in service quality, 4) an epoch-making improvement of library collections.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.41 no.3
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• pp.5-24
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• 2010

For over 60 years, public libraries in Korea has made an essential contribution to the social, educational, cultural well-being of local communities throughout the country. In spite of these contributions, the public library is regarded as being in crisis. If the current crisis is serious situation, the library and librarian should seek ways to overcome the such crisis. The aim of the paper is to analyse the various factors of the current crisis through an fish-bone diagram and to suggest the solutions to overcome the crisis.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Information Management Conference
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• 2011.08a
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• pp.59-66
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• 2011

스마트폰 보급의 급격한 증가로 도서관 정보이용환경에 많은 변화가 생겨나게 되었다. 이와 같은 환경변화에 가장 빠르고 민감하게 대응하고 있는 것은 대학도서관이다. 대학도서관은 모바일서비스의 중요성을 인식하고 현재 모바일서비스 구축에 많은 관심을 보이고 있다. 본 연구는 국내 392개의 대학을 대상으로 도서관 모바일서비스 현황을 조사하고, 현재 모바일서비스 중인 대학도서관 모바일 웹 11개, 대학도서관 모바일 앱 10개, 도서관기능을 포함한 대학 앱 87개의 콘텐트 구성을 분석하였다. 현황조사와 콘텐트 구성 분석결과를 통해 대학도서관 모바일 서비스의 향후 발전 방안을 제시한다.