• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.39 no.2
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• pp.469-492
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• 2008

The purpose of this study is to suggest core values and principles of children's services in public libraries. The writer, for the purpose, investigate a number of children's service guidelines from national and international level. The writer suggests eight core values and nine mission for the children's services in public library with administrative principles of whole aspects of children's services.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.41 no.4
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• pp.365-385
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• 2007

This study develops a set of measures for public library services to children. It is designed to use both measures for library service quality including personnel, library materials and resources. spaces for the service, and other services. and those for library customer satisfaction on equal basis. It specifies 23 scales for 4 each dimensions of measures for service quality, based on the suggestions both from the consulting members of specialists and from the personnel of the National Library for Children and Young Adults. and from the results obtained from the analysis on the questionnaires from the public librarians to children and researchers in this fields. This measures were testified by applying to 18 sample libraries.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.44 no.2
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• pp.51-75
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• 2013

The purpose of this study is to analyze the trends of children's services research in Korea. A total of 113 research articles were selected from 4 journals in Library and Information Science. Articles were analyzed in the aspects of research subjects, research methods, author types, and research funds. The writer discussed the problems shown in the articles and suggested some recommendations for the development of research.

• Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.63-84
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• 2008

This study aims to set a cooperative network system for children's service in public libraries in Korea centering on the National Library for Children and Young Adults. The purpose of the study is to foster effective online and offline cooperation among public libraries through the National Library for Children and Young Adults and improve children's library service. Based on the survey results and face-to-face interviews the study suggests various ways to strengthen cooperative network system and public library council for children's service. First is to empower the council and to that end, to expand the cooperative network as well as to clearly set its role. Secondly it advises to capitalize from council's homepage service and adapt social-networking tools.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.44 no.1
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• pp.199-215
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• 2010

This study aims to explore the key elements to facilitate public children's library services by investigating the current status and limitations in services. For this, data were collected through observations and in-depth interviews with library directors and children's librarians in public children's libraries in Seoul. The interviews were conducted based on the semi-structured interview technique. The content of the interview consisted of the vision and service status of the library, the competencies and roles of children's librarians, and ways to facilitate and improve children's services. The study discovered that libraries do not have a policy manual for operations and guidelines, and that their operations vary substantially according to the characteristics of the operating institutions. To resolve these problems, suggestions were made to facilitate children's library operations and services in order to enhance the professionalism of children's librarians.

• Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.175-202
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• 2008

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the present stage of children's services of public library in Korea. Data were collected from 171 public libraries and analysed according to five aspects of library services; physical aspect, collection, human resources, user services, and management and program. The results shows that budget, human resources for children's services should be increased and every local library authority should be on an active and effective way to services.

• The Korean Journal of Archival Studies
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• no.62
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• pp.139-183
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• 2019

Today, the archives strive to move towards more open and hospitable spaces for its users and to provide differentiated services based on detailed user needs and behavior for their own survival and development. Building services for children is especially vital in changing public awareness and expanding the customer base. Therefore this study aims to present fundamental data required for improving exhibit services by understanding children users' perceptions and needs. For such purposes, this study examines the cases of both domestic and overseas exhibit services of presidential archives. Also, the study included the surveys of children and parents who have accompanied children visiting the presidential archive and experiencing the exhibit services. This study is meaningful in that it conducted the evaluation of archival exhibit services in the perspective of the children users. In addition, the analysis of children's satisfactions and needs can contribute to the spread of archival culture and the revitalization of children users' visitations.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.45-62
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• 2012

The purposes of this study are to investigate the perception and use of e-books by librarians and children and to suggest important elements to improve e-book services at the children's libraries. User survey questionaries and interviews from fifty five librarians and thirty children were carried for the perceptions and the use of e-books at five children's libraries. Based upon the data analysis from two groups, three important elements for improving e-book services of the libraries were suggested as follows: providing enough e-book contents, facilities and spaces, developing e-book user education programs with proactive pubic relations, and providing professional continuing education programs regarding e-books to librarians.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.39 no.3
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• pp.405-427
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• 2008

Today, the importance of library services for children is well acknowledged by many. The children's rooms of the public library in addition to the children's library must be the place where the community's young ones grow up and learn to give back to their society. Also, the libraries are a life-long source of education. However, not all of the public libraries in our country have librarians specialized in children and young adults. The lack of specialized librarians prevents the public libraries from keeping up with the rapid change of society, which in turn prevents the libraries from meeting children's needs for information, culture, and recreation. The purpose of this research has two goals in mind. The first objective is to find out how to effectively build cooperative networks that will help the children's librarians of both public and children's libraries to better serve the children. The second objective is to solve any problems the librarians may encounter while serving the children by studying the formal and informal contents of the cooperative networks, and identifying which areas are in need of these cooperative networks.

• Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.261-274
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• 2006

The purpose of this study is to provide libraries with several suggestions which might be helpful for designing their services to support researches related with children and young adults. In this paper as a case study, six libraries from Korea, German, Japan, the United States are selected and analyzed by their roles, services, collections and programs by utilizing their web sites.