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A Study on the Life and Research Horizons of a Librarian Baek Rin(白麟)

사서(司書) 백린(白麟)의 삶과 연구 지평

  • 이민희 (강원대학교 국어교육과)
  • Received : 2024.08.22
  • Accepted : 2024.09.14
  • Published : 2024.09.30
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Abstract

This study comprehensively reconstructs the life of Baek Rin (1923-2015), who dedicated 43 years of his life as a university librarian, and provides an overview of his influence on the development of library science and his academic achievements. After passing the librarian recruitment exam at Seoul National University in 1948, he excelled as a librarian, handling various Korean, Chinese, Japanese, and Western literary materials. During the Korean War, he was in charge of the practical tasks of transporting and storing the National Treasures from Gyujanggak to Busan. After the war, he was responsible for organizing, cataloging, and classifying the books of Gyujanggak at Seoul National University. He prepared the initial drafts of book classification and served as an executive in several organizations, including the Korean Library Association. While teaching at universities after obtaining a master's degree in library science from Yonsei University, he published 49 academic articles and 7 edited and authored books. It is highly regarded that he was the first scholar to chronologically write the history of libraries in Korea. In 1973, he transferred to Harvard University's Yenching Library as a Korean studies cataloging librarian, and until his retirement in 1991, he cataloged East Asian classical texts and Korean books at Harvard's Yenching Library and supported the research of professors there. Baek Rin is a first-generation research librarian and teacher who laid the foundation for the barren Korean library science world.

본 연구는 43년간 대학도서관 사서로 헌신한 백린(白麟, 1923-2015)의 생애를 종합적으로 재구하고, 그가 도서관학 발전에 미친 영향과 학문적 성과를 개관하는 데 목적이 있다. 1948년 서울대 도서관 사서 채용 시험 합격 후 한·중·일 문헌자료와 서양서를 두루 다루는 사서로서 두각을 나타냈다. 한국전쟁 당시 규장각 소장 국보급 고서의 부산 소개(疏開) 및 보관의 실무 책임을 맡았고, 전후에 서울대 규장각 도서 정리 및 목록 작성, 분류를 책임졌다. 도서 분류, 도서기호 초안을 마련했고, 한국도서관협회 등 여러 기관의 임원으로 활동했다. 연세대 도서관학과에서 석사학위를 받고 대학에서 강의하면서 도서관학 관련 50여 편의 소논문(학술기사)과 7편의 편·저서를 출간했다. 1960년대에 규장각 장서의 역사뿐 아니라 국내 도서관의 역사를 학계 최초로 통시적으로 집필한 성과는 높게 평가되어 마땅하다. 1973년 하버드대 옌칭 도서관 한국학 목록 사서로 이직 후, 1991년 퇴임 때까지 하버드대 옌칭 도서관 내 한국관 소장 동아시아 한적과 한국 서적을 목록화하고 그곳 교수들의 연구에 조력했다. 백린은 불모지 같던 한국 도서관학계에 초석을 마련한 1세대 연구 사서이자 스승이다.

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