유치원 내 도서관의 실태 = Operational and managerial status of libraries within the kindergartens in Korea

국문 초록 (Abstract)

본 연구는 유치원 내 도서관의 실태를 살펴보기 위해여 서울시에 위치한 공·사립 유치원 93곳 중 도서관이 설치된 유치원 41곳을 대상으로 방문조사를 실시하였다. 방문조사 결과는 도서관 환경구성, 도서선정, 도서관리, 도서활용으로 분류하여 분석하였다. 연구결과 도서관 환경구성은 미약하였으며 도서구입 재정이 부족하고 도서 선정, 관리, 활용에 여러 가지 문제점이 있는 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구는 유치원 내 도서관의 실태를 조사하고 분석함으로써 여기에서 발생되는 문제점을 발견하고자 하며, 더 나아가서는 도서관의 운영방안을 수립하고 추진하는데 있어 바람직한 시사점을 제언하는데 의의가 있다.

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of this study was to investigate and analyze the Operational and managerial status of libraries within the kindergartens in Korea. Their sub-cate gorized questions as following 1) What was the environmental status of the libraries within the kindergartens? 2) What were the procedures for selecting books in the libraries within the kindergartens? 3) How was the book management in the libraries operated? 4) How were the books in the libraries of the kindergartens utilized? For the study question, of 93 kindergartens, a total of 41 kindergartens that instituted libraries within the buildings was included in this study. Checklists for the environmental status of libraries were used so as to identify how those libraries were furnished and managed. Furthermore, a total of 40 questionnaires was collected and analyzed to come up with frequencies and percentage. The results for this study are listed as following. First, Forty-four percent of the kindergartens had libraries within the kindergarten buildings, and 80 % of the libraries appeared to be built less than 5 years ago. More specifically, most of the libraries appeared to be located in convenient places where young children could come and go easily for reading, stand as isolated spots surrounded with three walls, and have enough spaces for 7 or 8 children to sit together at the same time. However, only 51.22 % of the libraries were used, as it indicated in their names, as the library, but the remainders were co-used with the director`s offices, auditoria, or gymnasia. Furthermore, they had insufficient numbers of such items as comfortable chairs, carpets, bookcases that could display the books in front, cassette tape recorders and various kinds of audiotapes, desks and chairs, bulletin boards to post books and posters, and various kinds of writing equipment and tools. Books the libraries had most included fantasy and informational books. The number of the books that the kindergartens had most ranged from 800 to 950 books. Second, only 17.5 % of the kindergartens responded to have the book selection committee within their kindergartens. The criteria for purchasing books included the interest of children, and the list of the recommended books to read. Annul budge between 5 hundred thousand and one million Korean wons appeared to be the amounts of money that were most frequently spent to purchase books. It was found that resources for selecting books included a variety of magazines, periodicals, materials at in-service training workshops and seminars, or information coming directly from the bookstores. Actual purchase of the books were taken places through on-line orders or at mega-bookstores. The most preferring genre of the books to purchase appeared to be foreign creative fairy tales, followed by Korean creative fairy tales. Most of the kindergartens were likely to purchase one book at a time. Third, the most frequently responded source for collecting books in the libraries included the combination of kindergarten`s purchase with donation from children`s families. Furthermore, 83 % of the kindergartens responded to have teachers in charge of the libraries. However, most of them turned out to be kindergarten teachers rather than professional librarians. Ninety-three percent of the kindergartens responded to have the list of the books in the libraries, and 63 % of them kept serial numbers on the books. As far as the criteria for listing books were concerned, they listed the books according to the order of the publishing companies. As far as the criteria for placing the serial numbers on the books were concerned, they gave those numbers on the books according to the order of the publishing companies most frequently, followed by making serial numbers without any special criteria. In most of the kindergartens, they appeared to perform a book evaluation process every semester so as to assess the degree to which children were satisfied with the books as well as the degree to which the books were damaged. As a result, 75 % of the kindergartens responded that they had ever discarded the books that were too old or too damaged. Finally, most of the kindergartens had the libraries open for 20 to 30 minutes, on the average, during the official visit hours that were set up twice a week. One of the most difficult things that they had in order to operate the libraries was shown to be how to manage the books well. Eighty percent of the kindergartens were found to provide follow-up activities as well as let the children check out the books after they had reading activities. Such follow-up activities included writing children`s impressions about the book they`d just read or drawing pictures that could reflect their impressions. Forty percent of the kindergartens responded that they also provided children`s parents with programs or seminars so that the parents could volunteer to participate in, or attend those programs.