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Generational Comparative Analysis on Library Usage of Senior Groups in National Assembly Library of Korea

시니어의 세대별 도서관 이용행태 비교분석: 국회도서관을 중심으로

  • 심자영 (한성대학교 문헌정보학과 대학원, 국회도서관) ;
  • 서은경 (한성대학교 크리에이티브인문학부)
  • Received : 2018.08.26
  • Accepted : 2018.09.11
  • Published : 2018.09.30
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Abstract

As coming Senior-Shift age, senior users are regarded as one of the importance user groups in the library. This study is to find the usage patterns and needs of libraries and digital libraries by 152 seniors and to compare with young-old age (baby boom generation) and elderly age. As a result, total seniors visited regularly and preferred political & social, religion & philosophy, and history & geography. While the baby boom generation are using the economy & finance, art & culture compared to the older. And the baby boom generation visit for self-development and the older visit for leisure purposes. Secondly, If the search fails, the baby boomers control the results themselves, while the older is more turn to the librarians. It can be described as the need for a librarian exclusively responsible for the senior. Thirdly, senior have difficulties in access and use of search aided tools or functions. Therefore, this study suggested that it is necessary to build an intuitive interface using the help and menu descriptions for senior who have poor access to convenience and define functions.

시니어전환 시대를 맞이하여 도서관의 주 이용군으로 부상된 시니어를 대상으로 디지털환경에서 정보접근 및 검색 편의정도, 요구사항을 파악하였다. 이를 위하여 55세 이상의 국회도서관 이용자의 이용행태 및 검색행태를 조사하였고 이러한 행태와 만족도를 시니어 세대별 즉 베이비붐세대의 액티브시니어 그룹과 노인세대의 시니어 그룹으로 나누어 비교분석하였다. 그 결과 첫째, 국회도서관을 이용하는 노인세대는 여가를 목적으로 방문하며 정치 사회, 종교 철학, 역사 지리분야를 선호하였으나, 베이비붐세대는 자기계발을 목적으로 경제 재테크, 예술 문화 분야를 선호하는 것으로 조사되었다. 둘째, 검색을 실패하였을 경우 베이비붐세대의 시니어는 스스로 결과를 제어하는 반면, 노인세대는 사서에 의존도가 높은 것으로 나타났다. 셋째, 시니어 두 그룹 모두 장시간 전자도서관을 이용하면서 자료를 브라우징하고 있음에도 불구하고 전자도서관에서 제공하고 있는 편의 정제 기능에 대한 이용률이 저조하였다. 따라서 시니어의 이용을 활성화하고 편의성을 높이기 위해서는 시니어 전담사서가 필요하고 전자도서관을 이용하는 시니어를 위해 따로 도움말, 메뉴 설명이 필요 없는 직관적인 인터페이스가 개발될 필요가 있다. 이로써 현 이용자뿐만 아니라 잠재적 시니어들의 정보 리터러시 향상과 이용성 제고를 도모할 수 있을 것으로 본다.

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