도서관의 다문화서비스 이해와 의학도서관 적용 가능성

김경채¹

The Understanding of Multicultural Services in Libraries and Applicability to Medical Libraries

Kyung Chae Kim¹

¹가톨릭대학교 인천성모병원 의학도서실

¹Medical Library, The Catholic University, Incheon St. Mary's Hospital, Incheon, Korea

ⓒ Copyright 2012 The Korean Medical Library Association. This is an Open-Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Published Online: Dec 30, 2012

Abatract

In the 21st century, our society is becoming multiculturalized rapidly due to diversification and internationalization. Currently, domestic immigrants reached 1,418,149 people at september 2011. We investigated cases of multicultural services in domestic libraries and analysed actual conditions of the sevices including program types. To keep pace with these social environmental changes, medical library researched the actual conditions of the multicultural services in domestic medical libraries, and Librarians' awareness of the multicultural services and tried to seek solutions in order to give active help to cultural minority users and to support their happy life.

Keywords: Medical library; Multicultural services; Multicultural society