• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.54 no.2
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• pp.155-178
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• 2023

Due to the rapid advancement of information technology and changes in the reading environment, the readers' advisory services provided by public libraries are facing challenges and opportunities. Recognizing the need for public libraries to respond and propel their services forward, this study analyzed the current status of online readers' advisory services offered by public libraries in Korea and discusses areas that require improvement. To achieve this, the study analyzed the online readers' advisory services in 50 public libraries located in Seoul and six metropolitan cities (Incheon, Daejeon, Daegu, Gwangju, Busan, and Ulsan) across seven categories. These categories encompass various aspects, such as announcing reading programs and new books, identifying and addressing reader needs, developing content by librarians, generating content by readers, providing guidance on external reading information, connecting with professional book review databases and online websites, and utilizing social media services. Through this analysis, the study identified areas for improvement to enhance online readers' advisory services in public libraries and ultimately improve reader satisfaction. It suggested enhancing activities such as librarians' book recommendations and reviews for individual readers, reader participation, and interaction.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.49 no.2
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• pp.201-220
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• 2018

The purpose of this study is to explore problems within bibliotherapy research of the 15 thesis papers aimed at improving self esteem, and then to explore development plan. In the current study on bibliotherapy, the problems with bibliotherapy are presented in five aspects. First, there is a lack of professionalism and role of counselor who plays the most important role in bibliotherapy. Second, the situation of the internalizer as an internalizer of bibliotherapy was not reflected in the bibliotherapy program. Third, the lack of diversity in the bibliotherapy program does not keep the reader's interest in bibliotherapy. Fourth, bibliotherapy reading material is limited to text material, which lacks the use of various media. Fifth, there is insufficient validity for the test paper that measures the effectiveness of the reader's bibliotherapy in terms of research methods. Several development plan are proposed based on the factors that affect bibliotherapy. First, it is necessary to develop and train teaching materials to secure expertise of bibliotherapy counselors. Second, it is necessary to develop data on the various media on suitable for bibliotherapy material. Third, it is necessary to review the test paper that can accurately measure the effectiveness of bibliotherapy.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.41 no.4
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• pp.241-268
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• 2010

The aim of this study explores the task of bibliotherapy for expansion of library service. There are three subjects for a study. First, I consider the position of bibliotherapy in library community. Second, I examine the outcomes and the critical point of an experimental bibliotherapy program conducted in Korean Library since 2000's. Third, I find out the tasks of bibliotherapy for expansion of library service. It is four tasks that have the problem of bibliotherapy terminology, the librarian's understanding and acceptance about bibliotherapy, education and training for bibliotherapy in department of library science and plans for the expansion of bibliotherapy service.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.46 no.4
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• pp.299-324
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• 2015

This paper is a qualitative single case study and it was conducted for the purpose to explore change in interactive bibliotherapy experience with a middle-aged widowed spouse. A Middle-aged Widowed Spouse was taken as a research partaker. Through this research, we explored partitively the partaker's experience changes by each session during the commencing of interactive bibliotherapy and the partaker's inner/external experience change after the end of session. The result, interactive bibliotherapy facilitated and expressed the reaction of a partaker by its writing skills and reading materials including partaker's own poems. Furthermore, facilitated emotion from material and self-awareness made a partaker understand and accept itself through therapeutical interaction. In addition, those kind of changes appeared inner/external experience in life, and lasted after the end of the session. In this regard, the inner/external change appeared from a partaker means the effect of bibliotherapy, and we can notice that it is a result that facilitated through truthful reaction of counselor and texts.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.38 no.1
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• pp.121-141
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• 2004

This study is a case study with four classes of sophomore majoring in library ＆ information science in S woman's college, with a questionnaire, firstly to research the students' recognition of their experience on bibliotherapy and the time, their preference of the materials' genre for the bibliotherapy. usefulness of the bibliotherapy' subject, apply possibility into library work, and the field of science that must be supplemented for the bibliotherapy. Secondly. a direction of development is presented analyzing researched contents and lecture experiences, centering on the factors that should be complemented and prepared in studying or lecturing the course of bibliotherapy as a school subject in the field of library ＆ information science hereafter.

• The Korean Journal of Elementary Counseling
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.1-13
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• 2009

The purpose of this study was to develop a group bibliotherapy program for improvement of elementary school students' self-esteem and to examine its effects. The subjects in this study were 20 children who were selected from 120 sixth graders at H elementary school in Gwangju Metropolitan city. They are randomly allocated at experiment group(n=10) and control group(n=10). Twelve sessions were administrated to experiment group for group bilbiotherapy and each session had run 40 minutes. Data were collected through the self-esteem inventory which was originated from Coopersmith's Self-Esteem Inventory(1967) and Chang(2001) translated and modified and the researcher remodified for this study. The collected data were analysed through ANCOVA. Research results were as followings. First, the experimental group showed a significant increase in the level as compared with the control group. Second, the experimental group showed significant increase in the level of general Self-Esteem, social Self-Esteem, homely Self-Esteem, but showed no significant increase in the level of schoolwork Self-Esteem as compared with the control group. The results showed that the group bibliotherapy has significant effect on the improvement of elementary school students self-esteem.

• Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.179-192
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• 2010

This study presents "The Subject List for Developmental Bibliotherapy", for the purpose of offering selfdevelopment information to university students to assist them in identifying problems, and solving them while strengthening their egos. Theories relating to developmental psychology of young adult, results of analysing of student survey and successful examples of bibliotherapy subject lists from other universities have been applied for classifying of subject of this study. The four classes, are physical/mental development, social/emotional development, cognitive development and career development, have been classified into sub-classes and divisions in this study. With fixed career goals based on documents of developmental bibliotherapy, students can manage a more effective university education as early as their freshman year.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.39 no.2
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• pp.321-346
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• 2005

This research is a case study with the subject of 5th grade elementary students, practice a developmental bibliotherapy, and check the influence on the self-actualization. The subjects of this research is 20 students of 5th grade C elementary school in Gyeonggi Province, (including experimental group.10 students, control group: 10 students) and we practiced 12 times for 6 weeks. The result of the experimental group represents meaningful effects in the scales of inner-directed, self-actualization value, feeling reactivity, spontaneity, self-regard, self-acceptance. Then, we found in the lasting scale that the effect was lasting after 3 weeks. Therefore, we conclude that a developmental bibliotherapy can gives elementary students a positive influence, and help them form their proper notion as human being.

• Korean Journal of Child Studies
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• v.25 no.6
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• pp.299-319
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• 2004

This study designed, implemented, and evaluated a Biblio-Counseling program for elementary school children. Procedures included 20 60-minute sessions by counselor, 18 20-minute sessions in class by teacher, and 5 20-minute sessions at home by parents. The program was administered to 23 third grade elementary school children. Data were analyzed by frequency, mean, and paired t-test, using SPSS program packages. Results showed significant before and after differences in the degree of self-esteem. Besides, the children reported increased positive expression in class and decreased peer neglect and rejection at school. Children, parents and teacher expressed high satisfaction with the program. These results suggest that the multi-faceted approach as designed and implemented in this study is effective in promoting self-esteem, interpersonal growth, and relationship between child and parents.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.38 no.3
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• pp.249-275
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• 2004

The purpose of this study is to assist librarians in developing a bibliographic tool for bibliotherapy practices. Bibliotherapy is a form of psychotherapy in which carefully selected leading materials are used to assist a subject in solving personal problems or for other therapeutic purposes. However, bibliotherapy has rarely been either studied or practiced in Korea For a bibliographic tool which is called 'situational leading list', a client situation has to be classified by the factors of biological. place and personal relations. type of stress or symptoms. This study, in this regard, examined related recent researches In the field of psychology or psychoanalysis. Main conclusions made in this study are summarized as follows : The most important factors to classify a client situation in a bibliographic tool are age, sometimes sex, home background, personal relations and mental health issues. This study also suggest the scheme of situation classification according to the decimal classification system. There are the general class, child class, teenager class, adult class and senior class in the classification system.