A Study on Improving a Continuing Education for Public Librarians: Focusing on Privatized Public Libraries
This study aims to make suggestions on how to effectively provide continuing education for librarians in privatized public libraries. For this end, the study examined concepts and importance of continuing education. It then investigated a current status of education/training procedures provided by Librarian Training Division of the National Library of Korea, and continuing education programs for public librarians implemented by primary regional libraries. It also analyzed continuing education programs of library associations in the U.S. and the U.K. Based on these analyses, the study conducted a survey for a sample of librarians in privatized public libraries, identified problems of continuing education for them, and made recommendations for its improvement. 키워드: 위탁공공도서관, 사서, 계속교육, 재교육, 공공도서관 privatized public library, librarian, continuing education, reeducation, public library * ** 이화여자대학교 문헌정보학과 대학원(feelingpj@ewha.ac.kr) (제1저자) 이화여자대학교 문헌정보학과 교수(syly@ewha.ac.kr) (교신저자) 논문접수일자 : 2014년 3월 3일 논문심사일자 : 2014년 3월 3일 게재확정일자 : 2014년 3월 17일 한국비블리아학회지, 25(1): 363-395, 2014. [http://dx.doi.org/10.14699/kbiblia.2014.25.1.363] 364 한국비블리아학회지 제25권 제1호 2014
A Study on Public Librarians` Job Satisfaction by Management and Employment Styles: Focused on Public Libraries in Daegu Metropolitan City
This study aims at analyzing librarians’ job satisfaction at public libraries in Dae-gu, according to various management and employment styles. As a theoretical study, it discusses management styles of public libraries and argues concepts and factors of job satisfaction. Based on the discussion the study selects 7 factors of job satisfaction and conducts a survey. All the respondents are satisfactory to 4 factors; job, co-worker, superior officer, and business affairs, but are not satisfactory to 3 factors; wages, welfare, and employment. There are differences between contract managed libraries and direct managed libraries. At local government’s contract managed libraries there is no difference in a sense of job insecurity between full-time and part-time librarians. The remarkable differences between full-time and part-time librarians are concerning participation in decision making processes and discretion in business affairs. The most significant differences between them are about wages, welfare and employment. 키워드: 공공도서관, 사서, 직무만족, 위탁운영, 비정규직 Public Library, Librarian, Job Satisfaction, Contract Management, Non-regular Worker * ** 중앙대학교 문헌정보학과 석사과정(dkssudkim4@naver.com) (제1저자) 중앙대학교 문헌정보학과 부교수(kimyus@cau.ac.kr) (교신저자) 논문접수일자 : 2012년 11월 22일 논문심사일자 : 2012년 11월 29일 게재확정일자 : 2012년 12월 19일 262 한국비블리아학회지 제23권 제4호 2012
The quantum particle in a box: what we can learn from classical electrodynamics
The problem of a charged particle enclosed in an infinite square potential well is analysed from the point of view of classical theory with the addition of the electromagnetic zero-point radiation field, with the aim to explore the extent to which such an analysis can contribute to enhance our understanding of the quantum behavior. First a proper treatment is made of the freely moving particle subject to the action of the radiation field, involving a frequency cutoff ωc. The jittering motion and the effective structure of the particle are sustained by the permanent action of the zero-point field. As a result, the particle interacts resonantly with the traveling field modes of frequency ωc in its proper frame of reference, which superpose to give rise to a modulated wave accompanying the particle. This is identified with the de Broglie wave, validating the choice of Compton’s frequency for ωc. For the stationary states of particles confined in the potential well, the Lorentz force produced by the accompanying field is shown to lead to discrete values for the mean speed and to an uneven probability distribution that echoes the corresponding quantum distribution. The relevance of the results obtained and the limitations of the classical approach used, are discussed in the context of present-day stochastic electrodynamics.