• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.44 no.4
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• pp.71-92
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• 2013

The purpose of this study was to identify the service factors of university libraries which aim to improve the educational welfare of the disabled, and to develop an evaluation indicator to evaluate these vital service factors. To proceed with this study, guidelines of public library services for people with disabilities, and previous research and job description of academy library analysed and developed indicators suited for evaluating academic library services for people with disabilities. A pilot survey and main survey about the evaluation factors and indicators conducted with librarians who work for university libraries, and the questions were refined by exploratory factor analysis of the data collected from the survey. As a result, through the process of identifying reliability and validity, it turned out that the evaluation factor and subordinate index of university library services for the disabled consisted of 8 factors and 33 indicators.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.147-168
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• 2010

The purpose of this study is to present suggestions for Korean libraries for disabled person after collecting and analyzing qualitative data upon library policies of national libraries, public libraries and libraries for disabled person in European countries including Sweden, UK and France. Korean national library support center for the disabled should be independent in order to have consistent policy and ability for its execution. It should also support private libraries for the disabled in inheriting professionalism and accumulated history. Developing alternative material, integrated catalogue and professional service is required by cooperative and systematic arrangements among national and public libraries for disabled person including schools and university libraries. Also, it should be able to grow not only on the basis of internal cooperation among libraries but also with the help of external organizations like social and legal systems, organizations related with the disabled and regional self governing bodies.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.41 no.4
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• pp.69-91
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• 2007

This research focuses library services for people with disabilities in public libraries and draws many issues and the difficulties faced by the libraries. Data are collected and analyzed based on a survey conducted by the National Library Support Center for the Disabled. As a further research users with disabilities study is recommended. Apart from the visually impaired, people with hearing impairment and physical impairment should be included.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.45 no.4
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• pp.179-207
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• 2011

This study was conducted by surveying users' perception about the public libraries' current public relations, which can contribute to developing the most appropriate public relations strategies for persons with disabilities(PWDs). This study concluded, first, PWDs' experience with the PR of the library services was a very low 32.4%. Intellectual disabilities, especially, were reported to have no experience in public relations. Second, the library public relations media which PWDs utilized the most were the Internet, library bulletin boards, banners, ARS services, and podcasting, in that order. However, satisfaction with promotions appeared below average(3 points or less). On the other hand, interest in public relations media was very high. Third, it appeared that library users with disabilities most frequently use the websites of their school library, the National Library of Korea, and public libraries in that order. However, the usage rate of services and users' satisfaction with them were very low. Finally, a high demand for facilities with accessibility to PWD users emerged as a result of this study. Therefore, this study recommends greater accessibility, convenience, and ease of facility use for persons with disabilities.

• Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.37-58
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• 2023

The purpose of this study is to find ways to improve the legal system for supporting libraries for the disabled. For the stdy, related precedent studies were historically analyzed, and the legal definition of libraries for the disabled and related laws were discussed. Through this, it was confirmed that the current 「Library Act」 does not have sub-regulations of the Enforcement Decree and Enforcement Rules supporting the regulations related to library support for the disabled, and the 「Welfare of Persons with Disabilities Act」 replaces them. In addition, through research on the current status of libraries for the disabled and interviews with field workers in libraries for the disabled, the need for improvement of the legal system related to libraries for the disabled was confirmed. In conclusion, three improvement plans for supporting libraries for the disabled were proposed as follows: First, the definition and duties of libraries for the disabled through the 「Library Act」; second, preparation of regulations on support for library services for the disabled and fulfillment of duties through the 「Enforcement Decree of the Library Act」; third, through the 「Library Act」 and 「Enforcement Decree of the Library Act」, standards for facilities, collections and manpower of libraries for the disabled are presented.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.50 no.2
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• pp.25-42
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• 2019

This study identified the experiences that the disabled actually feel in the library space in the face of growing social demands for spatial functions in public libraries. This study also tried to determine the requirements for the space that disabled wanted. For the research, 15 subjects were selected for each of the five people who were blind, deaf, and handicapped with experience using the library and individual in-depth interviews were conducted for the research. The study found that the experience of the disabled in the library space differed by type of disability and generally more negative experiences were found than positive ones. Misperception about the disabled of library staff and the non-disabled were having a significant impact on the disabled's negative experience for library space. There were a wide variety of opinions on the requirements for library space and there were generally negative perceptions about the current level of library space for the Integrated library service space.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2013.05a
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• pp.951-953
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• 2013

공공도서관은 모든 사람에게 평등하게 서비스를 제공해야 하는 기관이기 때문에 시각장애인과 같은 도서관 이용에 불편을 겪는 사람에게도 도서관 이용을 위한 서비스를 제공하여야 한다. 그러나 오늘날 우리나라의 도서관은 시각장애인등 도서관 이용에 불편을 겪는 사람들을 위한 서비스는 거의 존재하지 않으며 장애인이 아닌 정상인을 위한 공간으로 인식되어 왔다. 본 시스템은 NFC태그를 이용한 도서관 안내 시스템으로 책의 위치정보를 책과 책장에 부착된 NFC태그를 이용하여 읽어들이고 책의 위치정보를 음성으로 사용자에게 제공함으로써 도서관을 이용할 때, 책을 검색하고 금방 찾는 것이 힘든 시각장애인의 실정을 개선하고자 하였다. 또한 도서관에서 책을 찾는데 필요한 모든 정보들을 음성으로 사용자에게 제공해 시각장애인이 주위사람들의 도움 없이 언제든지 혼자서 도서관을 이용할 수 있도록 설계하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.38 no.3
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• pp.177-199
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• 2004

Information technology and internet became necessities of life facilitating communication and information access. Physically handicapped people, who cannot access to new Information easily due to economic, technical and physical handicaps, are likely to live with severe disadvantage in the high-speed information society in which information access right is considered as one of the basic human rights. Therefore, It is highly desirable to develop and improve library service programs for visually imparied at public libraries. In this study, the analyse of service activities for the visually unpaired at Hanbat Public Library and the investigation of user's needs and provider's points of view of staff members through individual Interviews were followed by the propositions gor the Improvement of services at local public libraries. And the consrtuction of cooperative networks with proper role-shares among service rooms for visually Imparired In public libraries, special libranes, social welfare organigations and government offices was confrimed to be the most urgent task.

• Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.173-197
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• 2015

The purpose of this study proposes continuing education program development for disability services librarian training. To this end, there was researched and analysed the Curriculum for the librarian disability service training courses and the library services with disability and LIS curriculums in abroad and domestic. Based on the research results obtained by the more comprehensive study developed a model for continuing education programs to strengthen disability services librarian competencies. Models were divided program is being offered to Track 1, 2. There are Education types which are organized cyber-shaped form of education training, set-type training, and was organized in blended learning.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.53 no.4
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• pp.231-254
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• 2019

Library website is medium for connecting library information resources and users. However, searching and accessing methods to information resources in library websites and retrieval systems are mostly designed for users. So, the disabled users have difficulty accessing and using library information resources through library websites. Therefore, the author carried on current status study and analysis on the retrieval system of the national and public library websites in Korea. And then, the author proposes improvement plan in order to enhance satisfaction with information needs of disabled users and to use a basic study for construction of retrieval system of library websites for disabled users.