• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.55 no.1
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• pp.305-321
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• 2021

VIP marketing strategy is mainly applied to commercial companies. This study proposed a plan to provide preferential services to excellent users of public libraries by referring to VIP marketing strategies. For this purpose, we surveyed 210 university students in their 20s and measured their Reliability, Empathy, overall usefulness for preferential service. As a result, 'Issue special membership card', 'provide exclusive lounge', 'additional book loan' services had common effects on three measurement items. Through these research results, this practical study can be used as a reference when public libraries implement preferential services in the future.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.36 no.2
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• pp.89-117
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• 2002

The purpose of this study is to construct a model for measuring and assessing service quality in public libraries based on the theory of service quality in marketing area. Firstly the degree of importance of service factors is measured and ranked according to the value of each factor. This importance ranking indicates the order of service improvement. Secondly the correlation model between service factors and customer's satisfaction and behaviour is established and verified in statistical method. The result shows that the order of service quality factors which have influence on the customer's satisfaction and behaviour is the order of service quality factors required preferential improvement.