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A Study on the Impact of Public Library Recommended Books and Curated Books on Borrowing

  • Journal of the Korean Biblia Society for Library and Information Science
  • 2025, 36(3), pp.329~353
  • DOI : 10.14699/KBIBLIA.2025.36.3.57345
  • Publisher : Journal Of The Korean Biblia Society For Library And Information Science
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Library and Information Science
  • Received : August 25, 2025
  • Accepted : September 18, 2025
  • Published : September 30, 2025

Haeryoun Kim 1

1이화여자대학교 일반대학원 문헌정보학과

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ABSTRACT

This study examined whether recommended books and curated books actually were used by users, focusing on the case of A Public Library. From 2022 to 2024, a total of 736 recommended and curated books from A Public Library were investigated for changes in loans over a three-month period, from the month before the recommendation, the month of the recommendation, to two months after the recommendation. As a result, 64.9% of the recommended books were borrowed in the month of recommendation, and 81% of the recommended books were borrowed two months after recommendation. In order to compare recommended and non-recommended books, the loan increase status was analyzed for 119 books recommended over the six months from January to June 2024, based on the loan list in June 2024, compared to December 2023. As a result, the recommended books increased lending by 88.2%, and the non-recommended books increased lending by 13.3%. This confirmed that recommended and curated books tend to have more borrowing than non-recommended books.

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