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A Study on the Effects of Bureaucratic Characteristics on Service Quality in Public Libraries

  • Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
  • 2022, 56(3), pp.391-414
  • DOI : 10.4275/KSLIS.2022.56.3.391
  • Publisher : 한국문헌정보학회
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Library and Information Science
  • Received : July 23, 2022
  • Accepted : August 12, 2022
  • Published : August 31, 2022

Hyunkyung Song 1 GIYEONG KIM 2

1내일신문
2연세대학교

Excellent Accredited

ABSTRACT

This study treats bureaucracy as one of the main systematic characteristics of public libraries and analyzes the effects on performance based on service quality. Doing this analysis, we investigated the service quality of each library by conducting a questionnaire survey from users of eight public libraries in Seoul metropolitan area of South Korea. We also measured the bureaucratic characteristics of the libraries through another questionnaire survey from librarians. Then based on the survey data, it is analyzed how bureaucratic characteristics affect service quality. According to the analysis results, bureaucratic and post-bureaucratic characteristics had causal relationships with service quality. Especially, several combinations of the characteristics affected service quality. In addition, among the characteristics, a system of rules was more important in the relationship with service quality. This study is meaningful to consider bureaucratic characteristics for public library organizations to produce a high-quality service through empirical research.

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