• Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.19-29
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• 2010

With changes of global environment, a growing number of people has entered America in recent decades, including immigrants, refugees, exchange students, and visitors. The influx of newcomers has brought great challenges to American public libraries to meet the needs and desires of diverse groups in the community. This paper discusses how public libraries can improve their services and programs for the ethnic, cultural, and linguistic diversities of community members. Especially, this paper comprehensively discusses that the public library's atmosphere for newcomers, community need assessment, library services and programs, multicultural collections, multicultural staff, collaboration with other organizations and groups, information and communication technology, and future challenges for public libraries.

• KLA journal
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.17-17
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• 1978

다음 지침은 미국도서관협회 대학 및 연구도서관부회 서지교육지침작성위원회에서 작성한 것으로 1977년 1월에 열린 ACRL 이사회 동계회의에서 ACRL의 정책으로 승인되었다. 지침작성위원회는 본 단명서가 훌륭한 지침교육 프로그램에 들어가야 할 수필적인 요소들을 정확하게 반영한 것이라 믿는다. 더욱이 이러한 형태의 지침은 서지교육 프로그램을 개선하거나 개발하고자 하는 대학도서관을 도와주기 위해서도 필요한 법이다. 본 지침 ARCL이 대학도서관봉사를 개선코자 추진하고 있는 역할의 일환으로 채택하였다.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.53 no.2
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• pp.137-163
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• 2022

The purpose of this study is to develop the public library programs that support the needs of multicultural families by examining the details of their information needs, focusing on the children's education issues of multicultural families. For this purpose, the data on experiences and needs related to the education of multicultural families' children were collected through in-depth interviews with married immigrant women. The study found the following six types of children's education-related needs of multicultural families: 1) Lack of understanding about the educational system and situation of Korean schools, 2) Their children's needs for language and learning 3) Their children's Bilingual education 4) Educational information for the role of parents, 5) Prejudice and discrimination against their children at school 6) Supporting library awareness and experience of mulitcultural families. Based on these needs, the following programs were suggested: 1) Parent role program for children's education, 2) Children's learning program, 3) Children's language education program, 4) Multicultural understanding education, 5) Library user education and guidance.

• The Korean Publising Journal, Monthly
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• s.104
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• pp.24-25
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• 1992

지방자치제도가 정착된 사회에서 공공도서관은 지방정부의 책임하에 발전돼 왔다. 즉, 선진국의 도서관들은 시미니들의 적극적인 참여속에 그 지역의 요구에 맞는 프로그램, 건물, 장서 등을 개발할 수 있는 제도적 장치가 마련돼 있어서 관주도적인 획일적인 도서관 운영은 볼 수 없다. 우리도 지자제시대에 걸맞는 제도를 도입해야 한다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.11-22
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• 2018

This study examines the structure and contents of the various programs offered by the Cologne City Library in Cologne, Germany, and discusses its implications for the role of the changing public libraries in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The Cologne Municipal Library, which has continuously played a leading role in the education of German libraries since its opening, has been transforming itself to become a center for producing information and knowledge and developing culture in accordance with the dynamic era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Currently, the Cologne Municipal Library plays a role as a multi-cultural space in the community where local members can experience various cultures, such as movies, music and games, and create a culture, beyond the traditional functions of library collection and preservation. The program of the City Library in Cologne, Germany, will help to redesign the functions and roles of public libraries in Korea in the future, and plan library contents for local members.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.46 no.4
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• pp.1-20
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• 2015

The goal of this study is to propose the contribution strategies of public library as cultural infrastructure to local cultural development in Korea. For this goal, researcher evaluated how public libraries contribute to the local cultural development in terms of interdependence of public library and local culture. Then, the researcher divided into the local culture to knowledge culture, reading culture, learning culture, living culture, and leisure culture, and suggested six contribution strategies(improving core competencies including the collection development and user service, strengthening education and support for digital information literacy, reading promotion and base expansion for everyday life, optimization of lifelong learning & culture program services, increasing openness and friendliness of the facilities and space, expansion of cooperation with relevant agencies) of public library for their development and promotion.

• Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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• v.31 no.2
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• pp.203-221
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• 2020

This study closely analyzed changes in the educational environment and changes in the needs of children's and young people's reading culture programs, which are directly beneficiaries of the promotion of reading culture as they enter the fourth industrial revolution. It also comprehensively evaluated the reading culture promotion project for children and adolescents promoted by the National Children and Youth Library and proposed a reading culture promotion project that meets the needs of the smart era. This study investigated the cases of various domestic and foreign reading culture promotion projects to divulge trends. The authors invited experts from public libraries and school libraries with experience of the reading culture promotion projects and performed Focus Group Interviews (FGI). The authors evaluated individual reading culture program based on the PDCA method (Plan, Do, Check, Act). Based on the data obtained through case studies and expert evaluations, the development plan of reading culture promotion project and the strategy of promoting new projects to be pursued in the National Children and Youth Library were presented. By gathering the results of the research, 'Interactive e-book making platform production / distribution business', 'Game-type reading program production / distribution business', 'Habruta reading culture dissemination project using backward learning method', 'Youth coding branding "Teen-Start -Up"' were proposed as new services.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.44 no.4
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• pp.295-321
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• 2013

This study examines current practices of the multicultural services in public library and offers directions for improvement in the multicultural society. For this, this study is set up the list of the multicultural services on the basis of the plans and the announcements about multicultural services of an international organization. Moreover, researchers analysed the multicultural services of Incheon Jungang Library. The results of this study are as follows. They proposed the improvement of the multicultural services of a public library as the changes of cognition of the multicultural services, training for professional manpower, program for intercultural understanding, accessibility to information, etc.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.43 no.1
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• pp.271-292
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• 2009

The public library strives to foster information use by the public, cultural activities, reading, and life-long education. Public libraries are firmly rooted in local societies providing services that reflect the needs and characteristics of those local communities, while at the same time are structured in a coherent nation-wide network. This study examines practices of managing local cultural contents and proposes ways in which public libraries, as central information hubs in local communities, can provide diverse knowledge information and cultural programs, and local culture contents.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.39 no.4
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• pp.461-478
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• 2008

This study was investigated and analyze the library anxiety of public library users utilize LAS. The main contents of this study contained the differences of library anxiety in sex, educational background, age categories, the frequency of library visit, the completion of information literacy program and library use instruction. Library anxiety is very differed according to the various factors, especially, the library anxiety of knowledge of library, barriers with staff was high, the average LAS score is 2.61, 2.60. Regard to results of this study, conclusion are suggested the recommendations for a decrease in library anxiety of public library users.