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A Study on Professional Identity of Public Librarians

공공도서관 사서의 전문직 정체성에 관한 연구

  • 김지수 (이화여자대학교 대학원 문헌정보학과) ;
  • 차미경 (이화여자대학교 문헌정보학과)
  • Received : 2022.08.20
  • Accepted : 2022.09.15
  • Published : 2022.09.30
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Abstract

The purpose of this study was to measure the professional identity level of public librarians and to identify related factors. For this purpose, a questionnaire survey was conducted for librarians in public libraries in Seoul and Gyeonggi Province from October 28 to November 18, 2021 and 375 valid responses collected were analyzed. As a result of the study, among the factors of professional identity public librarians showed high level of professional identity in order of belief in self-regulation, sense of calling to the field, belief in public service, using the professional organization as a major referent, and autonomy. In addition, librarian's age, career, position and whether the director of the library was a librarian had a statistically significant difference in professional identity. This study has a significance in that the Hall Professionalism Inventory was used to measure participants' professional identity and it associates domestic public libraries' settings with professional identity.

본 연구의 목적은 공공도서관 사서의 전문직 정체성 수준을 측정하고, 관련 요인을 파악하는 데 있다. 이를 위해 서울 및 경기 지역의 공공도서관 사서를 대상으로 2021년 10월 28일~11월 18일까지 설문조사를 수행하여 375부의 유효한 응답 결과를 분석하였다. 연구 결과, 공공도서관 사서는 '자체 규제에 대한 신념' 영역의 평균이 가장 높았으며, '직업에 대한 소명 의식', '공공서비스에 대한 신념', '전문직 단체의 활용', '자율성' 영역 순으로 나타났다. 또한 공공도서관 사서의 전문직 정체성은 도서관의 설립 주체, 운영 방식에 영향을 받지 않는 한편 응답자가 근무하는 도서관의 관장의 사서직 여부와 사서의 경력과 연령, 직위는 사서의 전문직 정체성에 유의미한 영향을 미치고 있었다. 본 연구는 Hall(1968)의 전문직 정체성 측정 도구를 사용하여 국내 공공도서관 사서의 전문직 정체성의 수준을 5개의 영역별로 분석하였다는 점과 국내 도서관의 특성을 공공도서관 사서의 전문직 정체성 수준에 영향을 미치는 요인으로 분석하고자 했던 점에서 의의가 있다.

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