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
Analysis and Solution of Contracting out of Public Libraries in Korea
In most countries the public library run as a public institution and a symbolic icon for a democratic society. Therefore public library's publicity is absolutely essential value and profit should not be made on their maintenance. More recently, as the government's budget spending increase, however, many local governments contract out to manage an entire library or new library system. Three main reasons could be identified. Firstly, alternative solutions for maintenance were supposed to save money. Secondly, contracting out provides an opportunity to improve the quality of service delivery. Thirdly, central government and some local authorities had very strong ideological reasons for contracting out of the public libraries. However, nothing proved that alternative maintenance had caused lower cost and better services in Korea. In this paper, the reasoning of a move from the traditional form of public library governance is discussed, as well as the advantages and disadvantages contracting out of the public libraries, and suggested various practical solutions in Korea.
Dickens and the Popular Radical Imagination
List of illustrations Acknowledgements Note on editions and abbreviations used Introduction: Dickens and the popular radical imagination 1. Popular radical culture in Regency England: Peterloo and The Queen Caroline Affair 2. Dickens and nineteenth-century show trials 3. Dickens, popular culture and popular politics in the 1830s: Oliver Twist 4. Christmas is cancelled: Dickens and Douglas Jerrold writing the 1840s 5. Popular and political writing in the radical press: from Douglas Jerrold to Ernest Jones, Chartist 6. Household Words, politics and the mass market in the 1850s 7. Flunkeyism and toadyism in the age of machinery: from Bleak House to Little Dorrit Notes Bibliography Index.