• Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.259-280
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• 2013

There has been a dramatic increase in the proportion of temporary employees in LIS fields, due to current trends of restructuring, automation, complete personnel systems, and complete wage systems. This research, therefore, conducted a survey exploring the current status and working environment of the temporary posts in LIS fields, in order to understand and direct the employment prospects of potential librarians. Results show that the average working period of more than half of temporary librarians are between 1-3 years. The total working period as a temporary librarian, including former experiences in their career, were evenly distributed between 1-5 years. Among those, being temporary often persisted, as 32% of temporary librarians stayed in their temporary status for more than 5 years. Second, temporary librarians perceived themselves as working the same hours as regular librarians, having independent or assistant tasks to regular librarians, and having a neutral or larger amount of tasks than regular librarians. Third, temporary librarians are employed and contracted from the work place, generally having contracts of less than 2 years or an open contract, which shows a serious level of job instability. Therefore, we should consider the following: proper remuneration for work of equal value, professional contractors, the supplementation of the total wage system and the number of public employees in the system as well as changing temporary positions to permanent positions and so on.

• Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.101-128
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• 2015

The purpose of this study was to investigate the temporary librarians' employment status that have been placed in over 80% of the school libraries and deduce the issues of their job status for proposing some solutions to improve their job performance. To achieve the above research purposed in this study, the related literature was reviewed and analyzed and an interview was conducted with the librarians in the Chungbuk province and a survey was distributed in the same province. As a result, first, a high correlation was found between the total satisfaction and the factors as follows; 'working satisfaction', 'employment conditions', 'working environment', 'interpersonal relations' etc. In the difference verification based on the satisfaction in accordance with the employment status, a difference of satisfaction was found between the pre and post analyses of the unlimited contractions. Second, the most overall review of the temporary librarians' job performances in relation to the 'reading and lending performances was conducted, regardless of the librarian certification. Third, the temporary librarians working at the school libraries responded that 'the manpower developer' was the most difficult consideration in relation to their employment statuses. And, asked about the solutions for the improvement of their job conditions, most of the librarians wanted their job security.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.40 no.1
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• pp.493-516
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• 2009

The study is to suggest the roles of school library professionals upon changes of school libraries according to the 7th Korean Educational Curriculum. With this purpose, it investigates the policies and current status of allocations of school library professionals, and the interview of non-regular librarian about works. The study also compares job understanding of teacher-librarians, teachers managing school libraries and that of non-regular librarians in school libraries. It suggested the desirable roles of school library professionals.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.43 no.3
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• pp.217-237
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• 2012

The library activation projects at school which has continued for the 10 years starting from 2003 provide us with too many irregular librarians. This study is not only to analyze the current state for their employment, the condition for their employment, and the causes of their conflict in the schools; but also to suggest some methods for the stabilization of employment that most irregular librarians currently have. As for the methods, there could be two ways: (1) to understand who play the key users for the library through the analysis of conflicts related to labor-condition and (2) to suggest how to legalize the stabilization of employment for the irregular librarians at school.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.45 no.2
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• pp.205-234
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• 2014

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the problem of irregular position school librarians in Korea. The backgrounds and momenta of the problem are searched and the major sufferings of irregular position librarians are presented. To identify characteristics and substantial complications of the problem, it's surface and reverse structure are discussed. Through the discussion, solutions for the problem are scrutinized and reflective attitude which the librarian should keep in their mind are proposed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Information Management Conference
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• 2006.08a
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• pp.101-108
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• 2006

본 연구는 고용형태의 차이가 사서의 직무태도와 성과에 어떠한 영향을 미치는가를 파악하고자 하는 것이다. 즉, 정규직과 비정규직 사서의 직무태도와 성과의 차이 유무와 그 직무태도와 성과에 영향을 미치는 요인이 무엇인가를 알아보고자 하였다. 연구결과는 고용형태별로 직무태도와 성과에는 차이가 있었으며, 직무태도와 성과에 영향을 주는 요인으로는 정규직 사서의 경우 동료관계, 고용보장성, 기술다양성이 영향요인으로 나타났으며, 비정규직 사서의 경우 동료관계와 자율성이 영향요인으로 나타났다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.48 no.1
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• pp.27-52
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• 2014

The employment prospects of graduates in the Library and Information academic has largely concentrated in the field of librarianship as well as the curriculum of the academic itself. Since there are limitations in increasing the number of libraries and the available posts in the librarianship, the full-time jobs in the field are also limited. Even for the available posts in the field of librarianship, the majority is in contract based posts which does not guarantee a good working environment. The purpose of this research is to make policy implications to improve the employment rates of librarians. The main research methods include literature review of the previous studies and available statistical data, and a questionnaire targeting students and librarians. The targeting policy implications can be categorized into 4 factors, including, as supply side, improvements in the qualification of librarian certificate, in training for librarians, and as demand side, laws on library employment, and improvement of library services for co-operatives. There are 15 detailed strategies to support the 4 factors. For the improvement of strategies in library related laws, the following elements will be considered; supporting system for temporary jobs, the title of librarian post and the library itself, and librarian placement criteria in terms of its realization and mandatory, and obligations in library evaluation. The Council discussions propose the expansion of librarian award system, provision of information systems for librarian jobs, and developments in promotional materials and their deployment for librarians.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.119-141
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• 2003

The purpose of this study is to investigate the reason, background, history, and present status of outsourcing of the Public library management and the change of librarianship in Japan. Under the name of the difficulty of finance and the effective management in local government, from the beginning of 1970's, the outsourcing of public library is going to the present. And especially with the progress of outsourcing, there were decreasing of the number of librarian, increasing of part time librarian, and abolition of librarianship. So this study try to find good resolutions about these problems in end.

• Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.99-120
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• 2013

This study aimed to propose the approach to identify and solve the problems by analyzing the present occupation index of librarians and the future occupation index of librarians after 10 years through the comparison with other jobs. In accordance with the investigation on the LIS students and librarians, the present wage level and the estimated wage level after 10 years were lower than that for other jobs and the employment demand was also lower. Both the students(58.4%) and the librarians(64.2%) considered that the number of full-time employment and the turnover were lower than other jobs. As a result of the analysis, first, this paper proposed to change part-time workers into full-time workers for improving the low wage issue of librarians. Second, '1 public library per 50,000 citizen' was suggested to increase the employment of librarians. Finally, it is proposed to cancel the project to contract out the operation of public libraries and BTL implementation.

• KLA journal
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• v.52 no.3
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• pp.26-32
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• 2011

문헌정보학 전공자에게 있어 취업의 꽃은 대학도서관 사서로의 진출이 아닐까 싶다. 왜냐하면 대학 도서관은 다른 관종의 도서관에 비해 외형적으로 규모가 크고, 업무는 다양할 뿐만 아니라 영역별로 전문화되어 있어 다양한 경험을 쌓을 수 있는 장점이 있다. 게다가 근무시간이나 급여, 복지 등과 같은 근무조건 및 환경 역시 타 관종에 비하여 비교적 우위에 있다고 하겠다. 때문에 전공자들 사이에는 기회가 된다면 누구나 대학도서관 사서로의 꿈을 꾸는 것이다. 하지만 최근 대학을 둘러싼 내외적인 상황이 그리 만만하지가 않다. 대학 외적으로는 대학 간 무한경쟁 체제의 확산 및 심화, 입학자원의 절대적 감소, 정부 및 각종 기관의 지원시 엄격한 평가 적용 등의 영향과 내적으로는 대학내 도서관 위상의 점진적 약화, 사서적인 수의 감소, 사서직에 대한 전통적 인식 약화로 인한 입지 위협 등으로 인하여 대하교직원 채용에 있어 도서관 사서는 대개 후순위이거나 고려대상에서 점점 더 멀어지고 있는 실정이다. 또한 최근에는 긍적적 측면과 부정적 측면이 상존하는 사서직원의 본부부서 이동 역시 늘어나고 있다고 하겠다. 한편 1987년 사서자격증 발급자가 2,000여명을 돌파한 이래 최근에는 매년 2,400여명 내외의 자격증 소지자를 배출하고 있는데, 본 글은 이 정도의 공급에 미루어 볼 때 전체 관종 대비 대학도서관 사서의 모집현황은 어느 정도인지? <사서e마을> 정규직, 비정규직 코너에 2007~2010년간 게재된 모집 공고 중심으로 월별, 지역별, 대학 설립주체별 현황 분석 및 전망을 해보고자 한다.