A Reflective Inquiry of the Qualification System and Jobs for the Teacher Librarian in Korea

Song,, G. (2012). A Reflective Inquiry of the Qualification System and Jobs for the Teacher Librarian in Korea. 한국비블리아학회지, 23(4), 161-180, https://doi.org/10.14699/kbiblia.2012.23.4.161

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The international standard for the school library suggests that school librarians qualified for librarian and teacher should run the school library. And library assistants should support the teacher librarian to carry out a role as a teacher. Despite the difference of requirements, librarians without teachers' license are under the human resources for school library administration. Furthermore, the job description between the school librarian and librarian is not well-defined in Korea. The different requirements in the library standards and the school library related laws have led to weaken professionalism and social status of librarianship. The condition that teacher librarians are not in the school library have brought the pressure to overcome imperfect functions of the school library and unfairness of educational services. In order to solve these problems, it is necessary to strengthen teacher librarians' qualification system to improve their identity as educational subject specialist librarians. We ought to also build proper foundations of social recognition about librarianship through classifying the types of human resources in the school library into the teacher librarian, library paraprofessional and volunteers. Especially we should hold the job analysis based on administrator, teacher, service, leader, collaboration, and partner.

keywords: 학교도서관, 사서교사, 사서직, 사서교사 자격 제도, 사서교사 직무 분석

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Vol.23 No.4

A Reflective Inquiry of the Qualification System and Jobs for the Teacher Librarian in Korea

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한국비블리아학회지