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The purpose of this study was to investigate and analyze user perceptions through a survey on the actual status, preference, and importance of high school students’ use of school library spaces in C-city, and then to suggest a direction for efficiently constructing school library spaces necessary for future education. Seven high schools, which are evaluated as having excellent space composition and staffed by the school library. Based on the results of the survey on users’ perceptions of the school library’s use and the direction of space composition, the government first selected 1) locations that are easy for students to access, 2) securing high-quality materials and equipment to support curriculum and learning when constructing materials, reading spaces, and teaching and learning spaces, 3) fully considering the role of the school library and the needs of users when constructing and deploying spaces, and 4) making efforts to construct spaces that reflect technological skills and equipment based on the impact of future environments and new technologies.

This study has validated the relationship between the field practical training experience and its influence on the career decisions of the Korean female community college students majoring in library and information science. As a result of the study performed, the trainee factors for the field practical training were major related satisfaction (β=.313, 𝑝<.01), advance preparation for practical training (β=.235, 𝑝<.01), and attitude towards the practical training (β=.195, 𝑝<. 05) turned out to be the factors which have had a statistically positive (+) effect on the career decisions of the Korean female community college students majoring in library and information science. Furthermore, among the field training institution factors, the training content (β=.268, 𝑝<.05) factor, and among the field training school factors, the training professor (β=.185, 𝑝<.01) factor were confirmed to have a significant impact on the career decisions of the Korean female college students majoring in library and information science. This study could be used as the useful basic data for the career planning and job placement guidance for the Korean female community college students majoring in library and information science.

JCR’s categorization significantly impacts the evaluation of research achievements in the field, particularly in information science and library science (IS & LS). Publishing in prestigious IS & LS journals often leads to lower evaluations due to their lower impact factor rankings. In contrast, publishing in higher-ranked Management Information Systems (MIS) journals classified under the IS & LS category is evaluated more favorably. Accordingly, this study analyzed the intersection of Library and Information Science (LIS) and MIS through an analysis of journal authors. This analysis was based on previous research that identified detailed subject areas of academic journals categorized under the IS & LS category in the JCR. As a result of the analysis, the intersection between the subfields of LIS and MIS was not substantial, and the strength of the connection was weak. Additionally, approximately 55% of universities in Seoul with LIS departments use JCR’s journal rankings by subject category to assess research achievements. The findings suggest that JCR’s subject category classification may negatively influence researchers’ evaluations and potentially distort the academic publishing landscape. In the future, the issues with research achievement evaluation standards will need to be supplemented and improved. The results of this study are expected to serve as valuable fundamental data for policy improvement.