• 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 BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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• v.28 no.3
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• pp.27-43
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• 2017

This study aims at research trends on public libraries in Korea. This performed a content analysis of the articles from 2007 to 2016 on major four academic journals of Library and Information Science. As a result of investigation, of total 2,134 researches, 405 researches, 19% was the research on public library, of 405 researches, many articles were published in Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society. The concernment themes of public library research were 'Reference and Information Service' and 'Library Management'. Major research method applied to public library research was survey research method, especially, questionnaire investigation. In survey research method, surveyee was librarian, general user in order. Public libraries in Seoul and Gyeonggi were mostly investigated for survey and then those in Busan and Daegu. The researcher dispersion was professor (172 researches, 40.7%) and was professor/graduate (50 researches, 11.8%) in order. Also, there were researchers of different fields.

• Journal of Agricultural Extension & Community Development
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.261-277
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• 2010

This study is undertaken to present the facilitation plan of English library that specialized the resource-based learning to provide learning that is suited for student's own learning style and self-leading learning as the method to learn contents required for individuals as a method for improving the English education environment in the rural areas. For this purpose, a study was conducted to find out the possibility of facilitating English library in the rural areas on the basis of consulting for structuring and operating English library in public libraries located in isolated areas clustered with low income class in the urban areas where the conditions are similar to the rural areas and results are shown as the followings. First, it displayed the possibility to have the rural area located with many closed schools or small-sized schools to facilitate the available facilities to build up the environment to specialize in English education that would be as comparable as any facilities in any urban setting. Second, it would enable the conditions to moderate the conflict on education environment for local residents who felt inequality in education by providing the benefit for fine education linked to public education through English library without going through private education. And third, English library that has the limitations in locality or economic means would actively participate by local educational institutions and volunteers to enhance the sense of master for the local residents and bring residents together to make positive impact on local economy facilitation.

• Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.271-279
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• 2012

Among the community-based cultural facilities, public libraries are places for social and educational purpose that improve the education of the resident, the expansion of the basic cultural education, communication between the members of society, and the accumulations and preservations of the culture. Public libraries should be a local cultural facility that expresses the value of a community. This study aims to analyze the design expression of publicness in a public branch library as a community-based cultural space through the study of branch library in the U.S. This study focused on the most future-oriented and innovative Ten New Landmark Libraries in the United States selected by Library Journal magazine in 2011. Among the selected libraries, three branch libraries which belongs Arizona Maricopa County were included in the study. The results of this study are as follows. First, the sites of the branch libraries vary geographically, but the libraries increase accessibility are caused by unique appearances and design concept of intellectual interest. Second, the floor plan shows the separation of meeting rooms and faculty space from the public space and has visual and spatial open space by high ceiling of the reading room. Third, multi-functional public space for residents are meeting rooms, the external patios for reading, galleries, cafes, libraries-shops which provides a variety of cultural programs, activities, and the opportunity to socialize neighbors. Fourth, branch Libraries have unique designs that harmonizes with nearby places to reflect locality, giving the locals a sense of pride in their community. Fifth, concrete brick and metal panel were used as finishing material for the practicality of maintenance. In particular, transparent glass envelope allows the locals to stay for long time due to openness and brightness of space.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.395-418
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• 2001

The purpose of this study is to extend the role of Academic libraries as a local information center to link with communities. Information that can be shared by everyone, need a certain social device that makes everybody to be served equally. Irrespective of their kinds, all the libraries including Academic, public and ones should seek the way to cooperate among themselves. The regulations about the Academic library extention should be stipulated. In addition to, this study is going to suggest more about probabilities for social changes and reality than suggesting alternatives.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.33 no.3
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• pp.41-60
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• 2002

The most typical roles of libraries in their information societies are public access points to the networks, providing teaching and training, assisting in knowledge resource discovery, and knowledge providers. In order to fulfil these roles, libraries should be a ky element in national and local cultual policies. Effective policy making is the most important responsibility of libraries as well as national and local governments and one of library management tools for running the library. The purpose of this study is, therefore, to review the spectrum of the library and information policies in Korea and suggest some desirable directivities for library policy making.

• Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.257-276
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• 2012

This study measures library anxiety using K-LAS for senior users, who constitute the smallest part of a public library users group. According to the findings, the overall score of library anxiety was 2.95, which was higher than the score of university students and local residents measured in previous studies. It was analyzed that the anxiety score of 'Digital Information' factor was the highest. In addition, it was found that the anxiety score was high in the old age group and the low education level group. Senior users whose intention of visit was to attend a community class and frequency of visit was lower showed higher library anxiety. This study suggests a method to reduce library anxiety of senior users, based on the analysis findings.

• Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.343-360
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• 2015

The purpose of this study was to conduct the mobile OK test which means the web accessibility evaluation tool and to evaluate the public libraries' mobile web services. For this purpose, 81 public libraries were tested and analysed in Mobile Web Best Practices presented by W3C. The results of this study indicate the following several strategies: Support by local governments and provincial education offices, Design mobile web services corresponding with web standards, Removal of harmful elements in the web design process, Making simple mobile web documents, A merger of individual files. The findings of this study expect to expand and improve the public library mobile web services for future.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Interior Design Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.19-24
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• 2004

The Necessity of extending the local library become inevitable because of the swift increasing the volume of information and enlarging the accessibility and increasing the requirements approached to the latest information, caused by continuous development of communication techniques. But these requirements have been concentrated at the quantitative growth to some extent such as an unique and mammoth library at an region or some few independent libraries, never to be considered enough for the users' convinience so that these locational conditions impede the utilization of library As to this matter, this is a basic research what's the best selection of arrangement for establishing public libraries in the future according to the planning regional area and this is the purpose to present a standard of planning regional area in consideration with user's easyaccesibility and also the facilities selecting activities of user's character and set up a planning the basic data about facilities arrangement and space scale before unfolding it's own public service activities of public library as the role of the regional and social information center

• Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.161-181
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• 2006

This study was analyzed for the managerial status of Bibliotherapy Programs in the public library. For this, managerial methods and contents. reactions and problems of participants were considered, and also the capability of adaptability in local libraries was groped. Based on the understandings of Man's pain and grief, patterns of library centered Bibliotherapy Program were emphasized for participants to attend the course of the therapy called 'the pattern of experience' directly.