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A Study on the Effectiveness of Book Selection at the Academic Library : a Case Study on K Academic Library (대학도서관에서의 도서 선정 주체에 따른 도서 선정 효과성 비교 - K 대학도서관 사례를 중심으로 -)

  • Hwang, Ok-Gyung
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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    • v.41 no.1
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    • pp.125-138
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    • 2007
  • The Purpose of the study was to research the effectiveness of book selection each by faculty, librarians and students. For this purpose, the study performed a case study on K Academic Library to compare the circulation rate of the books selected by each group. According to the book selection and circulation records of 7,717 titles (16,809 volumes) during the last 3 years. it was shown that about 76% of the books were selected by librarians. With regard to the rate of books with more than 1time circulation record, books selected by librarians showed the highest with about 85%. With regard to the circulation rate of books with circulation record, books selected by students showed the highest.

A Study on the Operation Model of Continuing Education for Academic Librarians (대학도서관 사서직을 위한 계속교육 운영모형 연구)

  • Hwang, Ok-Gyung;Oh, Se-Hoon
    • Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.249-263
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    • 2006
  • The purpose of the study was to investigate the continuing education model desired by the academic librarians in the present digital environment. For this purpose the study undertook a questionnaire survey of academic librarians in Korea. As a result it was shown that 61.4% of the librarians participated more than once(average 2.6 times) in the continuing education program during the last one year. The most preferred program type was one week or 2-3 days workshop. The theme of the program was regarded the most important factor for the activation of the continuing education. and the preferred theme of the program was user instruction. information retrieval. electronic licensing. planning and strategy, library marketing, virtual reference service etc.

Collaborative Research and Publishing of Librarians and Research Teams from Other Academic Fields (사서와 타학문분야 연구팀의 공동 연구 및 출판에 관한 연구)

  • Shin, Eun-Ja
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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    • v.53 no.3
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    • pp.143-159
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    • 2019
  • In the many countries including United States, numerous librarians participate as research project members and publish papers in related/non-LIS journals. In recent years, the quantity of papers published by librarians in LIS journals and the non-LIS journals is similar. This study analyzed whether librarians join the research team in various academic fields in South Korea, carry out the research together, and publish the papers in co-authorship. This study collected and analyzed 319 articles of the authors affiliated with libraries published in the last 10 years from the Korea Citation Index. As a result, there were not many articles published by the authors in the non-LIS journal. Nonetheless, specific examples of librarians collaborating closely with other disciplinary research teams were observed; Medicine, Architecture, Materials Engineering, etc. Librarians' contribution in research projects in South Korea is expected to increase in the future. Therefore, it is desirable to prepare for this such as opening courses on research projects in the library and the department of LIS which is training librarians as well.

Review on the Usefulness of Academic Studies from the Perspective of Acquisition and Cataloging Service in University Library (수서정리 업무 현장의 시각에서 본 학술연구의 유용성 - 대학도서관을 중심으로 -)

  • Lee, Kyu-Youn
    • Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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    • v.42 no.3
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    • pp.79-103
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    • 2011
  • This study reviews the meaning and the usefulness of academic studies on acquisition and cataloging service(technical service), reveals problems and seeks solutions in terms of the librarian working in field, university library. The problems were found from the side of library and librarian, and from that of academic area, along with the lack of linking role of government agency. As solutions to enhance the usefulness of academic studies, this study suggests three points; the opportunities of communication of both sides, research based approach of librarians in the field and continuous field based verification from academic side. Currently librarians get limited help from the academic studies however, it is necessary to interact, correlate each other as subjects for mutual prosperity.

An Analysis of Continuing Education Status for Competency Development of Academic Librarians (대학도서관 사서 역량개발 방향 탐색을 위한 직원교육 현황분석)

  • Choi, Yoonhee;Jeong, Yoo Kyung
    • Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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    • v.52 no.1
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    • pp.255-277
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    • 2021
  • This study aims to analyze the current status of continuing education for academic librarians based on the records of education. For this purpose, the study investigated the academic librarian's preferences for the topics of continuing education in terms of regional and monthly differences using the 30,404 education records in university and college library statistics of Korean Education and Research Information Service (KERIS). The results shows that 'academic database system' and 'cataloging' were the most preferred topics, and there were topical differences between the academic librarians in university and college.

A Study on the Factors Affecting Work Performance among Systems Librarians in Academic Libraries (대학도서관 시스템 라이브러리언의 작업성과를 높이는 요인에 관한 연구)

  • Bang Jun-Phill
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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    • v.32 no.3
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    • pp.231-250
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    • 1998
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate factors affecting work performance among systems librarians in Korean academic libraries. The factors were divided in three categories: Job characteristics, organizational characteristics, and individual characteristics. Data from questionnaire were analyzed using the SPSS for windows. Multiple regression analyses were performed on three sets of variables related to the hypotheses of the study. The result of the analysis Identified the folowing factors : Job characteristics which affect work performance among systems librarians in academic library are autonomy, task significance, skill variety, and feedback from supervision. Organizational characteristics which affect work performance are job security, capability of automation systems, coworkers. Individual characteristics which affect work performance are growth need strength, knowledge, and systems librarian experience.

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A Study on the use of WWW search engines of librarians for the internet information retrieval (사서들의 효율적인 인터넷 정보검색을 위한 WWW 탐색엔진 이용에 관한 연구)

  • 김성희
    • The Journal of Information Technology and Database
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.27-46
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    • 1999
  • This study was intended to find the use patterns of internet search engines of librarians and to measure the relationship between internet use frequency and the use behavior of internet search engines. The results showed that librarians use Web search engines for academic information retrieval and are satisfied with the search results. The major problems when librarians use search engines were that search engines retrieve many non-relevant documents. As a result of hypotheses test, the relationship between internet frequency and the preference of search engines was not significantly different. On the other hand, the hypotheses that internet frequency affects satisfaction of search results, recognition of importance of search engines, and the need of retraining of librarians for internet information retrieval were shown to be significant.

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Relation of Job Satisfaction and Cognitive Style of Librarians in Academic Library (대학도서관 사서들의 직무만족도와 인지양식과의 관계)

  • Yoo Kil-Ho
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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    • v.32 no.2
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    • pp.77-96
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    • 1998
  • Attitude of librarian's Job satisfaction was shown differently by individual characteristic, personality, and cognitive structure in the same circumstance. This means that it is related to the personal psychological difference and subjective thinking. The purpose of this study is to analyze the psychological difference of libraians, especially their Cognitive style and to know what acts the difference and effect in Job satisfaction. The methodology of the study is a suvey of 160 librarians in 11 academic libraries at Pusan. The results are as fellows. In General, they were satisfied with ph than the normal level ane the most dissatisfied with promotion. They had no difference of Cognitive style with a demographic characteristics, had a similar difference with job satisfation, and the older and the higher position peoples were satisfied with thou ph. Cognitive style firly effect at the ph satisfation. Field dependence librarians are more satisfied with their job than field independence librarians. Field independence librarians are oppropriate to technical Services and field dependence librarians are more oppropriate for public services. In conclusion, they demonstrated that it Is very important to consider each psychological difference with cognitive style.

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Librarians' Perception on the Service of Cinematographic Works in Libraries and Copyright (도서관 영상자료 서비스 및 저작권에 관한 사서 인식조사)

  • Choi, Sanghee;Joung, Kyoung-Hee;Lee, Ho-Sin
    • Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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    • v.30 no.3
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    • pp.317-335
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    • 2013
  • Cinematographic works are crucial for libraries as a part of their collections. Especially public libraries provide a variety of programs associated with cinematographic works. Copyright law considers the use of cinematographic works as a type of public performance and restricted it under certain conditions such as the released date. In addition, copyright agency challenged libraries to pay fees for cinematographic works released within 6 months. At this point, this study investigated the perception of librarians on cinematographic works and copyright issues. 292 librarians in public and academic libraries answers the questionnaire form May 8th to June 7th, 2013. In result, librarians consider services of video works as a important part of library services. They are also conscious of the exception conditions for copyright law for cinematographic works provided by library services. Furthermore, even though librarians are aware of copyright issues, they show the negative response to copyright fees for playing cinematographic works in the libraries.

Librarians' Contribution for Publishing in LIS Journal: In the case of Journal of the Korean Biblia Society for Library and Information Science (사서의 문헌정보학분야 학술논문 출판 활동 현황 - 『한국비블리아학회지』를 중심으로 -)

  • Shin, Eun-Ja
    • Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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    • v.30 no.4
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    • pp.51-64
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    • 2019
  • In addition to emphasizing practicality, as in some academic disciplines, LIS is also interested in the research activities and journal publishing of librarians. Despite the high interest, there are few Korean studies on librarian authors' publishing. This study focuses on analyzing the status of librarians' publishing and finding ways to activate their journal publishing. This study analyzed the papers of the librarian authors published from 2014 to 2018 in Journal of the Korean Biblia Society for Library and Information Science and identified the characteristics of librarians who are publishing. As a result, librarians accounted for 15.56% of all authors. However, it is encouraging that the number of librarians' authorship stabilized, and that many librarians are the main authors. Librarians who were energetically publishing were public or school librarians, and academic librarians were slightly behind. There were graduate student librarians who collaborated with the advisor. In order to increase the librarian's publishing, it seemed to be necessary to improve not only the librarian's efforts but also the recognition and assistance of his/her library. Both the librarian and his/her library should be aware of the importance of publishing the journals, and should establish concrete plans such as resilience, compensation, and support. In this way, the librarian's valuable practical experience will be published in research papers and widely shared among researchers and practitioners.