A Study for Reform of the Educational System of Library Science in Korea: on a Scheme to Educate the Subject Specialist Librarians

도서관학 교육제도 개혁을 위한 연구 -주제 전문사서 양성 방안을 중심으로-

The education of the modern library science began In 1957 in Korea. It has been greatly developing for 25 years. However, there are some problems in the Korean educational system of library science. One of these is the training of the subject specialist librarians and another is the ;relationship between traditional library science and information science. Because the education of library science is carried out at under graduate level in Korea, it led to the lack of the subject specialist librarians in all libraries. In this paper, the relationship between the library science and the information science was examined and a scheme to educate the subject specialist librarians :was suggested.