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A Study on the Formation Process and Sustainability of Community of Practice in Public Libraries

Park Seong Woo 1

1광주대학교

Excellent Accredited

ABSTRACT

The study is to prove the necessity of librarian as the coordinator for the building and sustenance of “Community of Practice” in public libraries. Therefore, The study reviews literatures and conducts a survey how librarians think of their work from the perspective of CoP. The results of this study are as follows: “Community of Practice(CoP)” is the kind of community composed of “Domain”, “Community” and “Practice” for knowledge circulation; The coordinator neither leader in CoP nor manager outside of CoP is necessary to sustain CoP by supporting management of CoP and promoting knowledge sharing; The programs and clubs designed by public librarians are potential CoPs; The potential CoPs turn into the sustainable CoPs when the participants of programs turn into the directors of programs; It means the coordinator of CoP is librarian in case of public libraries.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.