우리 나라 공공도서관 평가의 적실성 제고를 위한 연구 - 봉사대상인구 적용문제를 중심으로 - = A Study on Using 'Population of Legal Service Area' as a Criterion for Evaluating Public Libraries in Korea

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study is to analyze the results of which the Ministry of Culture and Tourism had evaluated the public libraries in 1999. In results, the study finds that the use of "population of legal service area" as a criterion for evaluating public libraries is not quite appropriate. That is, it is found that the use of legal service area by law as a unit of population measurement is not only inconsistent with the current local autonomous administrative structure, but also may distort all evaluation results. Therefore, this study is to criticize several points about using population of legal service area as an evaluation criterion and to suggest the amendment of Library and Reading Promotion Act, which may make the evaluation of public libraries more proper.