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Current Status and Problems of Bookmobile Services in Korea – Focusing on Human Resources, Vehicles, and Collections –

  • Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
  • Abbr : JKLISS
  • 2015, 46(3), pp.1-25
  • DOI : 10.16981/kliss.46.3.201509.1
  • Publisher : Korean Library And Information Science Society
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Library and Information Science

Yong Wan Cho 1

1대구가톨릭대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study aims to investigate current status and problems of bookmobile services in Korea, especially focusing on human resources, vehicles, and collections. To do this, a questionnaire that contained questions on basic information, human resources, vehicles, collections and information and communication technologies was developed on the basis of 8 standards and guidelines related to bookmobile services and 77 bookmobiles belonging to public libraries and Saemaul bookmobiles were surveyed. As a result, many parts of human resources, vehicles, and collections of bookmobiles in Korea were inadequate to standards and guidelines related to bookmobile services. At the end of this study, some suggestions are made for improving bookmobile services in Korea. First, the human resources, vehicles, and collections of bookmobiles need to be innovated. Second, national policies for bookmobile services need to be reinforced. Third, perspectives on bookmobile need to be modified from economic approach to information welfare approach.

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