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Impact of the Bunko Movement on School Library in Japan

  • Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
  • 2005, 39(1), pp.105-126
  • Publisher : 한국문헌정보학회
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Library and Information Science

Kwon,Eun-Kyung 1

1대구대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper investigates the Bunko, the center of Japanese child ren's reading movement, and its consisted by two parts; one subject is the programs and the law made by government which is related to either the school library or children's reading, the other is Bunko movements initiated by c itizen mostly mothers who wish to improve their children's reading ts started in 1960's and motivate the establishment of public libraries in 1970's, and it has tri ggered activating the school library after early 1990's. By analyzing the relationships of the two subject s it can be concluded that they are tightly connected each other by emphasizing the function of sch teaching-learning center but as a reading facility. It makes di fficult for the Japanese school library to establish the most important function of supporting curricul um.

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