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A Study on the Relations between University Rankings by Korea Joongang Daily and Academic Library Evaluation Indicators in 2014

  • Journal of the Korean Biblia Society for Library and Information Science
  • 2015, 26(3), pp.27-50
  • DOI : 10.14699/kbiblia.2015.26.3.027
  • Publisher : Journal Of The Korean Biblia Society For Library And Information Science
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Library and Information Science

Il-Jong Park 1

1계명대학교

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ABSTRACT

The top thirty universities in 2014 by the college rankings of the Korea Joongang Daily were chosen for the samples of this study to find how much academic libraries affect the competitiveness of universities. Evaluation scores of the universities in four areas, and building size, budgets, the number of collections and personnels were also decided as the variables in this study. The influence to the universities’ evaluation and rankings of their libraries through average and correlation analysis was studied. The major findings of the study are: (1) Average analysis between metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas found that there were significant differences in globalization indicators, reputation, and social advance degree. Also, (2) Correlation analysis found that library budgets and the number of personnel highly affected the university evaluations or rankings compared to the other variables.

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