• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.51 no.4
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• pp.183-201
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• 2017

The purpose of this study was to examine the current staffing practices in public libraries and to analyze the relevance of legal standards of public library staffing. It analyzed the national library statistical data to obtain the national average staffing rate, reviewed related literature to understand the rationales that established the key attributes that construct the current legal standards, and compared the placement rates of the three standards, namely the current legal standards, Korean Library Association's standards, and IFLA staffing standards, to determine the optimacy of the legal standards. It found the current placement rate in the legal standard was only 18.2%, marking the lowest rates among the three compared standards, indicating the current legal standards being unnecessarily high. The study attributes the problem to the structure of the current legal standards that calculate the staffing size based on the building and collection size rather than service populations. The findings of this study suggest a revision of the current standard based on service population while retaining the minimum staffing of three librarians even the smallest public library unit.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.55 no.1
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• pp.123-143
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• 2024

In this study, we analyzed the trends in staffing changes in academic libraries over the past ten years and surveyed staff working there to assess their perceptions of staffing levels and the current criteria for staffing allocation in academic libraries. We utilized statistical data from academic libraries to analyze staffing changes from 2014 to 2023. The survey was conducted through an online questionnaire targeting library staff, and responses from 216 respondents from 4-year universities and junior colleges were analyzed. The analysis of staffing changes revealed a decrease in the average number of employees in large 4-year universities and junior colleges, with a decrease in regular positions and an increase in non-regular positions. Survey results suggest causes such as declining school-age population and admissions quotas, budget shortages in universities, and structural adjustments. The perception of staff from 4-year universities and junior colleges regarding the criteria for staffing allocation was mainly negative, suggesting improvements such as increasing and refining criteria numbers, specifying standards for full-time librarians, clarifying criteria for compliance, and enhancing enforcement of standards. The results of this study can enhance understanding of staffing situations in academic libraries and serve as fundamental data for improving staffing criteria in the future, based on an understanding of librarians' perceptions on the ground.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.46 no.1
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• pp.55-76
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• 2012

Regardless of which country, all public libraries need facilities, collections, and funds. But how well the library system succeeds depends on the staff committed to providing the highest possible level of service to the community. The public library, therefore, should employ the appropriate number of full-time staff. In order to warrant such a work force, this study analyzed the juridical justification, logical validity, realistic fitness, and usefulness of current legal and recommended staffing standards. This study also suggested the revisions of total space of buildings and collection size as crucial variables for library staffing, division of legal service populations, basic staffing level, and additional staff in proportion to service populations for public libraries in Korea.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.49 no.4
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• pp.1-20
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• 2018

Since 1988, the librarian standards prescribed in the "Enforcement Decree of the Library Act" have not been revised at all and they have many weaknesses and limitations. This study proposed revision of librarian standard and legislation based on legal and application issues. It is desirable to revise the structure of 1988 prospectively and to establish new standards for local representative library. In the case of basic personnel, it is desirable to have three librarians in all public libraries or considering the fact that the library's non-professional work is about 30-40%, it is also necessary to consider a plan consisting of two librarians (professional + para-professional) and one non-professional. The local representative library should apply the librarian standard of the public library serving a community of 300,000 people and establish a standard to add non-librarian equivalent to one-third of librarians. In the case of additional personnel, it is desirable for public libraries to increase one librarian whenever the service target population exceeds 10,000, and the local representative library to increase one librarian whenever the service target population exceeds 100,000. And each library needs to add a other full-time staff equivalent to one-third of the librarian.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.20 no.1 s.61
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• pp.28-42
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• 2006

The purpose of this study is to offer the improvement for deployment of fire service force in Korea by settlement patterns on the basis of analysis for the present standard and deployment of fire service force. For the adequate deployment and operation of fire service force by settlement patterns, we carried out the analysis of the present standard calculated with allocation of the authorized strength. We also classified clusters for settlement pattern through the statistical methods. We proposed the standard for deployment of fire service force reflected with environmental and need factors through the introduction of standardized index.

• The Korean Journal of Archival Studies
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• no.62
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• pp.77-107
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• 2019

There have been constant requests for urgently recruiting professionals in the archives to establish archival management systems by reflecting public institutional feature as well as reinforcing expertise and independence of them. However, it is true that some even adequate professional manpower haven't been secured at each level of public institutions due to ambiguous standards for the placement of professionals in the field of records management followed by the current [Public Records Management Act]. Thereupon, this study is to create records management task model for the archival management institutions with the workload of records management induced by the model, and to present reasonable scale of workforce to deal with the assignment. Moreover, here is shown which professional staff should be allocated for better efficiency and systems to carry out the task of records management in each relevant institution.

• Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.137-144
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• 2013

This research examined the business system and current status of the safety security manpower managing directly important wooden cultural heritage and grasped on the current situation of arrangement, age, and duties of safety security manpower arranged in 158 important wooden cultural heritages. Also, it intends to highlight the current status and implications of safety security and suggest developmental direction for the establishment of wooden cultural heritages preventive measures in the future.

• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.71-81
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• 2014

As domestic construction investment has been gradually reduced, the issue of expanding overseas CM market has increased. Strengthening CM capability from the view point of project life-cycle is required in overseas CM market. However, current regulations institutionally force public CM services to focus on the construction phase. Therefore, Korean CM firms can hardly have the opportunities for accumulating technical competitiveness especially for pre-construction phase. Result of this study shows that the total efforts in terms of man-hours for the construction phase is found to be more than 78 percent in domestic public CM projects. In this context, this study proposes the policies and tasks for improving 'rigid man-hour placement', 'unreasonable CM fee standards', 'CM firm selection method', 'unreasonable business scope decision', and 'evaluation of owner's project management capability' in order to improve domestic CM Industry as well as to expand overseas CM market successfully.

• 월간 기계설비
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• s.35
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• pp.70-83
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• 1993

건설산업에 있어서 건설기술자의 수요는 건설공사업의 면허 및 등록을 위한 기술능력의 평가기준이 되고 또한 건설공사의 관리 및 기술상의 관리를 위해 공사현장에 배치되는 기술자로 활용될 뿐만 아니라 건설산업의 국제화, 고도화에 따른 경쟁력 강화와 노동집약적 산업에서 기술집약적 산업으로 전환하기 위한 중추적인 역할을 담당하고 있다. 이와 같이 건설기술인력의 중요성을 감안할 때 기술인력의 향상과 전문화를 통한 건설기술의 고도화를 도모하고 또한 건설생산활동에 있어서 원활한 수급을 위한 효율적인 기술인력 관리체계가 구축되어야 한다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 건설기술인력의 효율적 및 관리를 위해 현행 건설기술인력 활용 및 관리 제도상의 문제점 분석과 건설기술인력의 교육 및 경력관리에 대한 실태 조사를 통하여 건설기술인력의 관리 및 활용성의 문제점을 파악하고 개선방향을 제시하였다. 또한 양성된 건설기술인력의 능력을 유효하게 발휘시킬수 있도록 환경여건의 마련과 이들을 조직화하여 국가적 차원에서 효율적 활용을 도모할 수 있는 일련의 계획적$\cdot$체계적 관리 방안을 제시하였다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.380-389
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• 2013

The nurse staffing level in the acute care hospitals affects patient safety and performance, and the nurse staffing legislation can be an important tool to guarantee the minimum nurse staffing. In Korea, although the medical law suggests the nurse staffing standards, it is necessary to revise the medical law for quality of nursing care and patient safety. Firstly, the nurse staffing standards in the current medical law enacted in 1962 needs to be revised to reflect changes in health care environment. Secondly, legal nurse staffing standards in the medical law are the minimum nurse staffing that medical institutions should comply with and thus must be managed so that all medical institutions should abide by them. Thirdly, the nurse staffing standards should apply on the basis of RN-to-patient ratios per shift in order to help patients understanding and ensure the easy management. Fourthly, the information of nursing staff level by the nursing unit and nursing shift in hospitals shall be released.