• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.42 no.1
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• pp.313-333
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• 2008

Based on that the purpose of professionalization in librarianship is to achieve social recognition of its specialty, we discuss about theoretical background for the professionalization in librarianship in Korea. Some characteristics from the previous discussions are identified, such as functionalism, altruism in service, and individualism. Also, we identify organization-centered characteristic as an inherent one in librarianship. Based on the characteristics identified, we discuss about some supportive concepts, such as advanced or complex knowledge, service, organization-centered characteristic, and market, and their interrelationships. We hope such concepts would encourage further discussions on this topic for the professionalization.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.30 no.3
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• pp.67-84
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• 1996

Librarianship, as a profession, is a part of society, and has both affected and been affected by other social forces, Therefore, the development of librarianship is a social as well as historical process within society. This study explores the historical development of librarianship; South Korea from 1961 to In9 in the context of social development through the use of socio - historical analysis. Specifically, this study focuses on : 1) the development of librarianship in South Korea in a specific time period; 2) the analysis of social forces influencing librarianship, including political, economic, and cultural factors: and 3) understanding the relationship between the development of librarianship and that of other aspects of society. Accordingly, the significance of this study lies in an understanding of the relationship between librarianship and society.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.38 no.4
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• pp.417-439
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• 2007

Information inquiries asked of the 'Librarian's Community' will reveal the real problems and interests of the university libraries. This paper intends to find out in what areas the university libraries have most problems and interests and how serious they are by analyzing the contents of inquires. To identify the issues, the works in the university libraries including acquisition, cataloging, reference services, library automation and Interlibrary loan were analyzed. This research also tries to identify if the issues need to be handled by the legal or solved by individual libraries.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.39 no.1
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• pp.51-72
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• 2008

The purpose of this study is to investigate the teaching competency level of professor and to suppose the strategies and policy issues for improving teacher librarian education system in Korea. This study was carried out to measure teaching competency of teacher librarian. This study participated by 120 elementary schools and secondary teacher librarian. The questionnaire consisted of 52 items for measuring teaching competencies of teacher librarian divided into nine area competencies. Based on the analysis results of this study, It was suggested the revision strategies of teacher education system.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.131-146
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• 2003

This paper examines few approaches to education for medical librarianship - those of North America, the People's Republic of China, Japan and Korea and the various opinions in the previous studies of the .education fer subject specialist librarians. and it suggests the educational system for medical librarianship practicable in Korea, including formal degree programs, continuing education and medical librarian certificate program.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.52 no.2
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• pp.27-47
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• 2018

The purpose of this study is to find a better way for placement of teacher librarians. So, the literature research is applied for the study. It is unreasonable to arrange one school librarian staff per 1,500 students, based on the criteria of the total number of personnel including that of teacher librarians and practice teachers and librarian, in accordance with the existing enforcement decree of Article 7. In fact, this clause, linked to other related regulations, makes it difficult to place teacher librarians. And the quota of teacher librarians is noticeably low as compared with that of other teachers who are not-teaching the subject matter. This operates disadvantageously to teacher librarians when it comes to assigning quota in secondary teacher selection test and the accumulation of this phenomenon gradually worsens the current situation. The roles of teacher librarians and librarians should be defined separately when amending the Enforcement Decree of School Libraries Promotion. And we should also take into consideration that the number of students per school is around 500. Therefore, Enforcement Decree of School Libraries Promotion Act should be revised toward placing teacher librarians depending on the size and number of schools. Predictability should be secured in teacher librarians selection test. In addition, flexibility should be granted to the training institute so that many people can prepare the teacher librarians qualification. Finally, it is necessary to increase the teacher librarian capacity for private schools. This study will be the basis of the theoretical foundation for stable teacher librarian placement.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Information Management Conference
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• 2005.08a
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• pp.243-250
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• 2005

이 연구에서는 전문도서관 사서의 입장을 통해 현 문헌정보학 교과과정의 문제점을 알아보려 하였다. 구체적으로 1) 전문도서관 사서는 현 교과과정에 대해 어떻게 평가하고 있으며, 2) 전문도서관에서 요구하고 있는 사서의 능력은 무엇인지 알아보고, 3) 그 결과를 바탕으로 우리 교육현장이 이러한 요구들을 어떻게 수용하고 반영해 나갈지에 대해 논의해 보았다.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.52 no.2
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• pp.127-144
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• 2021

The purpose of this study is to redefine the competencies of teacher librarians and to derive implications for training and re-educating teacher librarians by analyzing the priorities of competencies. A questionnaire survey targeting teacher librarians based on analytic hierarchy process has been conducted. The results indicate that in terms of the upper-level areas of competencies, it was found that they prioritized teacher librarians' competencies in the following order: information specialists, teachers, administrators, and cooperative leaders. Analysis of the lower levels of competency indicates that the priorities of the required competencies are listed in the following order: collection development, management and preservation, teaching and learning, media production, information service, library cooperative instruction, library assisted instruction, content curation. Therefore, being able to provide information resources by developing a collection of books to support the educational process in school libraries was found to be a critical competency. It seems necessary to cultivate the capacity to manage online and offline collections and produce and provide various teaching media and services by utilizing school library resources. It seems to give implications for the education of teacher librarians.

• KLA journal
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• v.51 no.12
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• pp.43-49
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• 2010

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.43 no.1
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• pp.27-52
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• 2012

This paper proposes a continuing educational program for librarian, as to reinforce the professionalism. It researches the previous educational attainments of undergraduates who studied library science. Then it analyses the current continuing programs of the National Library of Korea and librarians' demands for the program. The research also compares ALA and SLA as foreign cases of continuing programs, and their trends observed from the newly opened sessions. This paper, therefore, reports a series of educational contents in library science by their subjects. The proposed curriculum includes subjects including electronic publishing and copyrights, Future of Library, Taxonomy and controlled vocabulary, Patent Information. Science Information Literacy, Open Access Program, The Value of Library, Licensed Issues, Customer Service program etc.