• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.40 no.3
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• pp.249-270
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• 2009

This study is to search Korean teacher librarians' perception level of expertise and to grope for effective alternatives to promote their expertise, based on it. The result is as follows: Although Korean teacher librarians were well-educated on the information management and its related expertise, they consider that, in site, the expertise on school library education and its management is more important. As a result, this study suggests the law amendment of training teacher librarians, and the improvement of their selection system and in-service training.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.38 no.4
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• pp.83-112
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• 2021

This study aims to examine how the specialty of librarians links between users' library experience and their resulting perception of the library in public libraries. After reviewing theoretical background studies, a questionnaire survey was conducted at six public libraries in Seoul and Gyeonggi Province. The analysis of the survey results showed that the perception of librarians' specialty had a mediation effect on the relationship between cultural, educational activity and library perception. However, information activity was not linked by the perception of librarians' specialty and only directly influenced on the library perception. Accordingly, the result raised a question of a discrepancy between the areas where the users gain the value of the library and where the librarians' specialty is perceived and some implications were suggested. This research is meaningful in integrating the users' library experience, librarians' specialty, and the library performance by external point of view on the specialty, traditionally regarded as an internal characteristic of the librarianship.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.54 no.1
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• pp.243-275
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• 2020

The purpose of this study was to explore the direction of librarianship by analyzing differences in Librarian and User perceptions of Librarianship Professionalism. Literature research was used to derive the components of librarianship Professionalism and to conduct surveys on librarians and users. As a result, librarians recognized expert knowledge as the most important factor, while users recognized service attitude as the most important factor. Users recognized that librarians have low social recognition due to their lack of enjoyment, enthusiasm, and challenging spirit and their ability to develop and provide services by understanding user needs and the flow of knowledge. On the other hand, librarians did not actively engage in communication or exchange with users due to their lack of expert knowledge.

• Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.167-190
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• 2017

This study examined the relationship between the professionalism of children's librarians and the program operation in children's services. Based on the literature review, the librarians' expertise was divided into 6 areas, and the program operation was divided into planning and proceeding, and an e-mail questionnaire survey was conducted on 262 public librarians (response rate 58%). As a result of the survey, the children's program planning was correlated with all areas of professionalism of children librarians, and the program progress was related to the competence of the three areas including professional development. These results can be used as a basis for strengthening the professionalism of children's librarians and preparing ways to activate children's programs.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.45 no.3
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• pp.371-393
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• 2014

In recent years, the worries of professionalism of the professions have been long lasting and the debate of securing the expertise by improving the curriculum and qualification system as well. In this study, we have focused on cases where Japanese' securing the expertise of profession through practicing specific and systematic movement by reorganizing the curriculum and implicating an expertise evaluation system. First, we analyzed the relevant qualifications for librarians and education system of Japan. Second, we organize the requirements of the Library and the studies of Library and Information Science (LIS) in Japan to secure expertise. Third, based on the requirements of the site and the results, we have discussed the advantages and disadvantages by focusing on recent changes in the curriculums and expertise evaluation system.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.47 no.2
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• pp.103-121
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• 2013

This study is to examine the basic structure of the professional development of school librarians and to analyze the national evaluation standards, and the states' evaluation tools and self-assessment tool currently used in the United States. The result is as follows: the structure of the school librarians' professional development processes, such as curriculum, certificate, and evaluation, have been affected by the national school library standards published by AASL. NBPTS's Library Media Standards and AASL's Learning4Life evaluation system are proposed as the representative national standards. Many states have developed their standards and tools to evaluate school librarians' performance, these standards are related to the national standards. AASL published A 21st-Century Approach to School Librarian Evaluation for school librarians' self-assessment in 2012, this workbook shows a specific way of developing their expertise.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.46 no.4
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• pp.227-244
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• 2015

The study aims at identifying professional competencies of collection development librarians in academic libraries. For this, the study collected data through qualitative interviews with 8 librarians who are in charge of collection development programs in four-year university libraries. As a result, the professional competency components emerging from interviews were divided into three parts; knowledge in library and information science, knowledge in subject field, and professionalism. Detailed components of three parts of professional competency were divided into 13 sub-categories, with 37 meanings. It is expected that the study as an exploratory research may provide further research to design educational and training programs for collection development librarians with basic data.

• Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.229-260
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• 2014

The purpose of this study was to investigate the appropriateness of the open competitive examination subjects to selecting the personnel with work profession targeted the public official librarian engaging the libraries directly operated by education office and city hall of Seoul. Also, this study suggested the ways for selecting excellent personnel within work profession. First, the public official librarian recognized that there was no practicality regarding the subjects of the open recruitment that recruit for the personnel with work profession. Second, 78.5% of the public official librarian responded the new subjects including science of public administration, social studies, science, and mathematics needed to be revised to a written examination. Third, the public official librarian thought the subjects such as library management theory, organization of information, and collection management was more appropriate for the improvement of the profession.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.283-306
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• 2002

The introduction of information technology into the organizations managing knowledge and information which include libraries has caused some confusion to the identity of libraries and librarianship. The libraries and librarians in the societies whose library development lags behind like ours prefer being called information centers or information specialists to libraries$.$md librarians. This paper traces what has been discussed for the professionals, professionalism of librarians and how librarians, who want to be treated properly in status as professionals, understand the professionalism.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.36 no.3
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• pp.233-256
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• 2005

This study is arguing about the development of professionalism of children's librarians. For this, I investigated the conditions of operation in the course of library and information science and continuing education related to the training of children's librarians. Furthermore, I analyzed their problems. After this, I suggested the methods for the development of professionalism of children's librarians.