• 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.26
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• pp.35-51
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• 1994

This article presents the role of children's librarian in the age of information. Preparing the 21st century, there should have been to identify the humanities of health, independent, creative, and moral fact with educating children in future Korea. Children's library should service all the children to improve the information skill and technology, to creat a whole person with high order intellectual thinking skill for the consumer, the voter and the leader of the next generation. It has been identified that the children's librarian should playas a mediator of literacy and culture of children, a creating counselor of personality, a negotiator of recoginating all knowledge, and a leader of the information skill or communication skill in the children education at the 21st century.

• Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.161-181
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• 2007

The purpose of this study was to improve an undergraduate curricular of library and information science for children's librarians in public libraries. For the purpose, this study examined current curricular provided for children's librarianship. A questionnaire survey of the educational background of children's librarian was also conducted. Based on the results, this study proposed an undergraduate curriculum model to raise children's librarians.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.36 no.4
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• pp.177-198
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• 2005

The objective of this paper is to obtain the knowledge for spatial Planning of children's library which serves various users. The study method is to observes the children and their parents' space use according to the age step of children in public library, and analyzes it in the relation with the classified 4-types of children's section. Five characteristics were identified. First, children area was influenced by library location and user's characteristics. Second, children area was used various aged group with children. Third, there were different use patterns based upon age. Fourth, various reading space was needed through areas. And, last the behavior and the characteristics of area and furnishings were described.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.39 no.2
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• pp.493-514
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• 2008

The paper analyzes local children's libraries' status of application of classification scheme and problems and difficulties in its application in order to be used as basic material for development of classification scheme for exclusive use of children's libraries. Through survey, the paper researched 96 local children's libraries, and the results showed that KDC-applied libraries numbered 53 and were the highest, libraries which developed their own classification scheme numbered 22, and libraries which applied classification scheme for children's library numbered 13. Further, many asserted that there needs to be a development of standard classification scheme to be used in children's library. On problems and difficulties in applying classification scheme, notes such as difficulty of accommodating various forms of children's books(such as comic books and picture books), placing too much emphasis on collection of books on certain topic, and lack of topic categories appropriate for characteristics of collected books were voiced, and by holding additional discussion on these, the paper raised the usefulness of the dissertation to be used as basic materials for developing classification scheme for exclusive use of children's library in the future.

• Korean Journal of Childcare and Education
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.201-218
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• 2016

The aim of this study is to examine children's desires in a toy library and what they want to do there in order to reflect their opinions on constructing a toy library in a child care center. The study has been conducted by participatory observation on a 'toy library' project consisting of 20 five-year-olds attending B public child care center in Seoul. Observational notes were taken with voice and video recordings. The results of analysis on collected data are as follows. First, the children wanted to call the toy library a toy playground because a toy library is not for study but for play and they wanted space for rest and display with no surveillance camera. Second, they wanted to play freely without any interruption, even leaving things scattered and also wanted to play with parents and friends. Discussion followed in the view of children's right to play and to express their opinions.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.45 no.1
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• pp.395-415
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• 2011

This research intends to evaluate the validity and suitability of English reading programs at public children's libraries and provide their effective administration strategies. For this, the study investigated the current operational practices of public children's library programs. Further, it conducted the survey for parents at 'S Children's Library' in Seoul on their perceptions and satisfaction of the English reading programs. In addition, the study performed the survey of the elementary school students participating in the programs as well as the observations of their studies. Based on the results, some suggestions have been made to improve administration strategies for English reading programs.

• Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.29-38
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• 2010

In this study, we analyzed the navigation systems in terms of global, local, Ad-hoc Navigation, and support navigation system using the 35 children's library websites. The study showed that the number of menu, retrieval interface, quick links need to be improved. These results can be used as a framework for designing children's library websites.

• 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.

• Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.255-271
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• 2016

It's been taken a profound interest in the user eduction of the children's libraries, as they have taken the conveniences, resources, children's librarians after 2000. The purpose of this study is to consider whether the children's library can use the story-telling in library use education, to develop the instructional model based on the story-telling method for children, users in children's libraries. After all, it's reviewed to understand the concept and principle of story-telling method, to consider whether the method can be adopted to the user education in children's libraries, and to propose the instructional model based on the story-telling. The result of this study will give the good examples for the user education, especially the planning of user education in children's libraries and public libraries in Korea.