Abstract

The purpose of this study is to propose a plan to revitalize digital-based reading education in school libraries by analyzing the reading education support platform of the Ministry of Education and the Office of Education for digital-based reading education in school libraries. Accordingly, the status of digital-based reading education infrastructure was investigated by targeting the Ministry of Education’s Dokseoro and the electronic libraries of 17 metropolitan and provincial Offices of Education, divided into pre-, middle-, and post-reading process support. Dokseoro supported a curation for pre-reading education and various media-based education of individual and group for middle- and post-reading education. However, there was no direct support for providing digital media for middle-reading education, and support centered on providing banners and links to Offices of Education electronic libraries in Dokseoro was investigated in 12 cities and provinces. In order to build various E-books and function as a subject gateway to support education, there were also cases of the Office of Education that provided abundant reading education for the entire reading process, such as categorizing and providing various open access information resources, but there was a quantitative gap in the situation of support due to the lack of the number of E-books or the Office of Education in which electronic library hasn’t been established. In addition, the qualitative gap in providing digital media, such as supporting only part of the reading processes or absence of integrated search function, was also found to be large. As a result, it was founded that homogeneous support at the level of the Ministry of Education was needed beyond the metropolitan and provincial Offices of Education in order for digital-based reading education in school libraries to take place without gaps.