• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.16
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• pp.111-176
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• 1989

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the information science education provided by the undergraduate courses of the departments of library science of the Korean universities by looking at major topics included in the syllabi distributed to students in the past three years. It is important to determine the evaluation of the professional education for information specialists by the graduates of the departments of library science who have acquired a critical appreciation of their professional studies and speak from experience about the relavance of the programme to their work and careers, and by the managers of information service units where the graduates would eventually make their careers. Specifically, the study addresses the following four questions. (a) To what excent do the information science curricula contribute to advancement of theory and practice of the information profession? (b) To what extent do the information science curricula contribute to students in acquiring the knowledge and skills required of the information specialist? (c) To what extent are the employers' concerns reflected in the information science curricula? (d) What reforms are needed to bring the current information science curricula closer to the present and future needs of the information profession? To answer these questions, the study is conducted in two main parts: an in-depth subject analysis of the articles of three important journals in the field of information science published during the past ten years and of the syllabi used for information science subjects taught in the departments of library science during the past three years and an extensive survey of the graduates of departments of library science and their principal employers. The major findings are as follows. The average number of 4.1 subjects of information science is offered in departments of library science, and the most common subjects offered are introduction to information science, information storage and retrieval, and library automation. Approximately two thirds of the total output of research and development in the field of information science are taught at one or more departments of library science in Korea. Majority of the graduates of the departments of library science comment that their professional education did not offer to them systematic orientation to the specifics of the first job. The employers of the graduates believe that departments of library science should provide sufficient practicums to enable students to understand and apply the theory.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.55 no.1
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• pp.209-230
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• 2021

This study aims at analyzing research trends of library management and suggesting future tasks of this area in Korea. This is a study following the previous study which was done in 2014. For this purpose, this study analyzed 323 papers of library management area among the library and information science papers which have been published from 2014 to 2020 at the four academic journals of the National Research Foundation of Korea. As a result, it was found that 46 papers in library management had been produced annually. The amount of papers in library management has increased, compared to 36 papers annually published which were checked at the previous study. The analysis on the research trends of sub-fields of library management showed that high research performance has been done at the sub-fields like 'general management', 'human resource management', 'measurement and evaluation'. However, there has still been less performance in the sub-fields like 'marketing', 'organization management', 'budget management', which was also shown at the previous study.

• Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.5-26
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• 2023

This study was employed as a basic study to make a medium and long term development plan for a library system in Nowon-gu, Seoul. This study investigated the characteristics and local conditions of Nowon-gu, and analyzed public library system that can promote the development of the library by understanding the current state of the public library, the library's facility status, collections, manpower, and programs. Through the survey, the frequency and purpose of library use of local residents, users' opinions on satisfaction, collection development, expected roles, and policy directions were investigated. Depending on SWOT analysis, missions and strategies for midto long-term development plans for Nowon-gu Library were devised. Based on the research results, researchers proposed strengthening future education, reading culture, sustainable environmental library, and Nowon-gu cultural platform as development strategies.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.54 no.3
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• pp.271-293
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• 2023

The purpose of this study is to provide basic data for future library anxiety research in Korea that can contribute to resolving library anxiety by examining research trends on the Library Anxiety. For the purpose, a systematic review was selected to derive answers to research questions by examining and analyzing the trends of preceding researches, and the final 23 studies according to the PRISMA procedure were designated as analysis targets. As a result, in the research topics, there were 12 studies (52.2%) measured library anxiety by group, 18 studies (78.0%) were applied research in the type of research. and in the research methods, quantiative research was mainly used in 18 studies (82.6%). Through the analysis results, it suggests furthur research directions for domestic library anxiety.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.47 no.2
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• pp.231-257
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• 2016

This study intends to analyze issues of purchasing process in public libraries by the 2014 revised Publication Industry Promotion Agency of Korea and fixed book price. Furthermore, this study suggests future tasks for restoring the intent of revising the laws and toward a better book purchases. The main contents of this study are as follow: 1) preparing the effective methods for selecting book vendor with evaluating the performance not price competition, 2) establishing concept and scope of local bookstore as book vendor for restoring the intent of the activation policy of local bookstore, 3) establishing the well-defined regulation about benefit of the economic dimension.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.32 no.3
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• pp.69-97
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• 2015

This study aims to analyse the research areas and trends of reading (reading instruction) abroad in the respect of LIS, and suggest future research tasks. First, I reviewed the controlled keywords in SU field of LISTA database and the entries of DDC 23, and identified the research areas of reading and reading instruction in overseas. Second, I analysed the research trends of this field by applying a intellectual structure analysis on 2,115 research articles (1914~2014) retrieved from a representative database in the areas of Library and Information Science (LISTA). Third, Based on the results of these analysis, I suggested the future research tasks of this field in the domain of library and information science.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.46 no.2
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• pp.49-69
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• 2015

The goal of this study is to propose the reform plans for education program for librarianship. For this goal, authors analyzed the current status(participation rates and availability, training and operating methods, lectures and lecturers, facilities and location, future core competencies, etc) of education program using the librairan's survey and forecasted the long-term educational demand. Based on these results, authors proposed a future-oriented reform of education program for librarianship for establishment and operation of tentatively named 'National Librarian Education Institute' in the National Library of Korea.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.56 no.1
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• pp.67-93
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• 2022

This study purposes for the based data for establishing the mid- to long term development direction of Anyang municipal libraries by conducting a survey of residents in Anyang city and focus group interviews with local experts. Based on the results of the survey and FGI analysis conducted in this study, the main implications and discussions for establishing mid- to long term development plans for Anyang municipal libraries in the future are summarized as follows. First, the services used by users are extremely limited compared to the utilization rate of library, and the utilization rate of library programs is low, therefore Anyang municipal libraries need to actively promote various services operated by the library, provide information, and make efforts to improve service use procedures simply. Second, library satisfaction is relatively high, but as a result of analyzing the reasons for some dissatisfaction, active budget investment for purchasing new library materials and ways to increase library accessibility are necessary. Third, due to the low awareness of the operation of specialized libraries, it is necessary to develop specialized, unique library services to Anyang municipal libraries through benchmarking of other best practices. Fourth, in the future, Anyang municipal libraries need to strengthen functions as a complex cultural center along with the functions as an information center, a lifelong education center, and a living convenience center. Lastly, it is required to construct a control tower that can systematically lead the operation of Anyang municipal libraries in the long term through the reorganization of the organizational system.

• Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.273-295
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• 2023

The Beopmaru, Supreme Court Library of Korea, the national library of the judiciary, is the only one that can help reduce the justice gap and increase access to justice by allowing the general public and legal experts to read and circulate. Accordingly, this study identified user satisfaction with the Beopmaru public service through surveys and interviews and derived ways to improve the service. User satisfaction was in the following order out of 5 points: response of librarian 4.62 points, facility management 4.48 points, and cultural programs such as events and lectures 4.33 points. Satisfaction with collection composition was the lowest at 3.97 points. This appears to be because collection composition is where legal expertise has the greatest impact on satisfaction. As satisfaction with the collection composition was the lowest, collection expansion was the highest at 44%(114 people) as a service that Beopmaru needs to strengthen in the future, and a balanced collection of books according to the user base is needed in the future. Based on this, improvement measures were proposed to include dualizing the Beopmaru reading space and services for the general public and legal experts, strengthening its identity as a legal library, improving the system, and strengthening publicity and response of librarian. If the Beopmaru public service is successfully established through continuous research in the library and information community, it will be possible to improve the service quality of the law library industry as a whole, including law libraries, and increase user satisfaction.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Educational Facilities
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.3-12
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• 2012

The opportunity provided for design method and strategy of community space for secondary school through the experience of public library and gallery, is the purpose of this paper. Community space is an important issue in school architecture as it seeks to revive the public area in educational building and to renew the open space as a multi-entertainment space. The latest works of school, however, which are evaluated as well reflected the reality of educational patterns, are still deficient in that communicational elements in school are underdeveloped and inadequate. The cases of this paper, which are grown up as entertainment library and multi-purpose cultural space such as Seattle Public Library, Sendai Mediatech, Tate Modem Gallery, and Kunsthaus, are suitable to offer the method of the creation of community space for school. This paper reviews an assessment of its success in community space for school architecture with multi-entertainment-purpose library and cultural space connected open space and concludes with the establishment of design method for future school; extraction of the factors contributing to development of community space in school and proposal of design method; implementation of school renewal with library and gallery plus open space for the creation of identity considering both of study and play.