Journal of Korean Medical Library Association
The Korean Medical Library Association
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병원도서관 사서의 독서지원서비스에 대한 인식 연구: 국내 병원도서관을 중심으로

박정미1,*
Jung Mi Park1,*
1강북삼성병원 의학정보실
1Medical Information Library, Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, Seoul, Korea
*Corresponding author : Jung Mi Park, Medical Information Library, Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, 29 Saemuanro, Jongno-gu, Seoul 03181, Korea, Tel: 82-2-2001-2793, Fax: 82-2-2001-2799, E-mail: jm0827.park@samsung.com

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Received: Oct 15, 2016; Revised: Nov 20, 2016; Accepted: Dec 16, 2016

Published Online: Dec 30, 2016

Abstract

Purpose:

This study aimed to examine the current conditions of reading advisory services of hospital libraries, to conduct survey on the librarian’s of recognotionn about reading advisory services, and based on the results of this survey, to provide basic data for reading advisory services of hospital libraries.

Methods:

To do this, email survey was conducted on 93 librarians of 80 hospital libraries among the member libraries of The Korean Medical Library Association, and 62 librarians of 50 hospitals responded to the survey and 2 responses from the administrative job group were excluded from those responses, so a total of 60 copies of responses were used for the final analysis.

Results:

In this research, first, after investigating the current conditions of what kinds of reading support service the hospital libraries provide for the patients, the frequency analysis was conducted. The results of the analysis showed was very low with. Second, after investigating the questions about the perception of, and hindering factors for, the librarians’ reading support services, completing reading education courses, improvement of the system, establishing the support cooperation system, the frequency analysis, T-Test, ANOVA analysis were conducted.

Conclusion:

It can be seen that the librarians in the hospital libraries perceive highly of providing reading support services for the patients. It also can be seen that in order to provide the reading support services, In addition, the librarian’s desire to activate the reading support service is as follows: First, librarian’s recognition and attitude change, second, system improvement, and third, and third, the librarian’s reading education course is very important factor.

Keywords: Hospital library; Patient library; Hospital librarian; Reader’s advisory services; Recognition