Journal of the Korean Society for Information Management
- P-ISSN : 1013-0799
- E-ISSN : 2586-2073
- Publisher : Korean Society for Information Management
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- P-ISSN1013-0799
- E-ISSN2586-2073
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Vol.42 No.3
13papers in this issue.
; Seungmin Lee
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https://doi.org/10.3743/
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Construct Validity Analysis of Physical and Social Servicescape Factors for Placeness Formation in Public Libraries
Soram Hong ; Park Seong Woo
pp.1-33
https://doi.org/10.3743/KOSIM.2025.42.3.001
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The advancement of information and communication technology has sparked discussions on the reinterpretation of public library spaces. This study proposes the concept of servicescape as a tool to examine the process through which users form placeness by experiencing the space of public libraries. Servicescape refers to an artificial environment that influences user behavior (approach/avoidance), encompassing both physical surroundings and the social interactions they stimulate. Through an analysis of prior research, this study develops a measurement tool for physical and social servicescape, consisting of eight factors and 49 items. To verify the structural validity of this tool, exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were conducted. As a result, among the originally developed eight factors—cleanliness, comfort, accessibility, aesthetics, convenience, social density, user homogeneity, and librarian recognition—the factor “comfort” (which lacked distinctiveness) and “social density” (which exhibited low correlation with overall items) were excluded. The final measurement tool was refined to include six factors and 32 items.
Jae Yun Lee ; Soojung Kim
pp.35-60
https://doi.org/10.3743/KOSIM.2025.42.3.035
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The purpose of this study is to analyze the research trends on literacy in all academic fields in Korea. To that end, 6,940 literacy-related articles were collected from the KCI database. From those articles, the main literacy keywords were extracted, the chronological flow of research, and the relationships between individual academic disciplines and various types of literacy were analyzed comprehensively. The results show that literacy research in Korea has steadily increased since 2001. A sharp rise in published articles beginning in 2020 resulted in more than half of the total articles published after that year. This is due to an expansion in the number of academic fields engaging in literacy research starting in 2019. In terms of literacy types, Digital Literacy, Literacy, and Media Literacy were identified as core concepts. By academic discipline, the most active research fields were Education, Korean Language and Literacy, Interdisciplinary Studies, English Language and Literature, and Library and Information Science. Since 2019, research on Digital Literacy has rapidly increased, particularly within the field of Education, while interest in AI Literacy, and Data Literacy has also risen significantly. In contrast, research on Information Literacy within Information Science has greatly declined. Overall, this study highlights 2019 as a critical turning point in the digital transformation of literacy research in Korea and provides novel insights into its evolving trajectory and disciplinary orientations.
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Improving Academic Library Services through Analysis of Students’ Scholarly Video Usage and Their Perceptions of Descriptive and Expressive Elements
Ji Yoon Hong ; Sung Un Kim
pp.61-86
https://doi.org/10.3743/KOSIM.2025.42.3.061
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This study aims to propose improvement measures for academic library video services by analyzing students’ scholarly video usage and their perceptions of descriptive and expressive elements. A survey was conducted among undergraduate and graduate students at S University. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, the Independent Samples t-test, and the One-way ANOVA. Content analysis was conducted on responses to the open-ended questions. The analysis of usage patterns revealed that scholarly videos are actively used for learning and research purposes. The credibility of the content and its creator were found to be highly significant factors. However, the awareness of scholarly event videos provided by the academic library was found to be low, and users reported significant dissatisfaction with the search functionality and user interface. The perceived importance of descriptive and expressive elements varied by academic discipline. Based on the findings, the study suggests improving services through the diversification of content acquisition, enhancement of search and navigation features, and user interface improvements to better meet various user needs. This study offers foundational insights into positioning scholarly videos as core resources in academic libraries and emphasizes the need to establish an integrated academic video platform and a citation framework for video content.
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An Exploratory Study on School Librarians’ Perceptions of the School Library as a Secure Base
Myoung-A Hong ; Wonsik Shim
pp.87-115
https://doi.org/10.3743/KOSIM.2025.42.3.087
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This exploratory study examines the emotional support function of school libraries in alleviating the emotional distress experienced by post-COVID-19 adolescents, based on Bowlby’s (1988) concept of the ‘secure base’. For this, we categorized the secure base function of school libraries into spatial, human, and reading resource elements based on previous studies and conducted a survey of 142 middle and high school librarians across the country. The results of exploratory factor analysis and structural equation model analysis showed that librarians perceived the secure base function of school libraries as two dimensions, ‘emotional function’ and ‘spatial function’, rather than three elements. Of these, the ‘emotional function’ had a significant effect on the perceived value and perceived need for the secure base function of school libraries, while the ‘spatial function’ had no significant effect. These findings suggest that the secure base function of school libraries is a multifaceted factor realized through emotional interactions and experiences rather than the physical environment. This study is significant as the first exploratory attempt to structure and examine the emotional function of school libraries quantitatively according to the secure base concept.
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Analyzing Factors Influencing Technology Acceptance of ChatGPT: A Study of Elementary Students Participating in Library Programs
Jinah Kim ; Jane Cho
pp.117-136
https://doi.org/10.3743/KOSIM.2025.42.3.117
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This study empirically examined the factors influencing the continued use intention of ChatGPT among elementary school students in Incheon who participated in ChatGPT-based task activities at public libraries. Based on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), the study employed regression analysis to investigate how perceived ease of use, usefulness, and enjoyment affect continued use intention. Furthermore, the study incorporated innovativeness as a mediating variable, drawing on the Innovation Diffusion Theory (IDT), to analyze potential indirect effects within these relationships. The results revealed that ease of use did not significantly affect continued use intention, whereas usefulness and enjoyment had significant positive effects. Secondly, innovativeness demonstrated a significant mediating effect in the relationships between both perceived usefulness and perceived enjoyment and continued use intention. Specifically, the indirect effect of perceived usefulness via innovativeness was significant (B = 0.166, 95% CI [0.061, 0.325]), as was the indirect effect of perceived enjoyment (B = 0.305, 95% CI [0.081, 0.530]). These findings suggest that students with higher levels of self-perceived innovativeness are more likely to recognize the utility and enjoyment of new technologies or services, which in turn enhances their intention to continue using them.
Kyoung Jang ; Hyeyoung Kim
pp.137-159
https://doi.org/10.3743/KOSIM.2025.42.3.137
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This study aims to explore strategies for revitalizing reading culture programs in small libraries using operation evaluation data from four libraries designated as Excellent Small Libraries in 2024, and qualitative interviews with seven operators and managers, including comparison groups. The analysis identified five operational characteristics of these libraries: specialized programs utilizing local resources, governance through citizen participation, collaborative networks with local institutions, community-driven reading clubs, and innovation through public project funding and space development. In addition, the qualitative analysis produced five major strategies for program revitalization: user demand-based program design, community-based program development, expansion of club-oriented programs, utilization of local human resources, and improvement of evaluation indicators. By combining case analysis of Excellent Small Libraries with qualitative data, this study provides concrete strategies and policy implications for strengthening the role of small libraries as sustainable cultural infrastructures within local communities.
Do-yun Son ; Bong-suk Kang
pp.161-184
https://doi.org/10.3743/KOSIM.2025.42.3.161
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This study developed and validated an instructional guide centered on library resources for teaching AI ethics to fifth and sixth-grade elementary students. In response to the ethical challenges arising from the rapid proliferation of AI technologies, it emphasizes the pivotal role that school libraries can play in fostering ethical awareness. The curriculum framework is grounded in the ASSURE model and was constructed by synthesizing international AI ethics standards with concepts from the revised national curriculum of 2022. Utilizing a selection rubric that incorporates literary, pedagogical, and problem-solving dimensions, ten picture books were chosen, and a prototype consisting of thirteen lessons was drafted based on the Ministry of Science and ICT’s ten core AI ethics principles. Eight practicing educators evaluated this prototype, yielding an average endorsement score of 4.57, with discussion-based activities utilizing the picture books receiving particularly high marks (5.00) for their effectiveness in enhancing ethical reasoning. The findings present a novel picture-book-centered approach to AI ethics education and highlight the expanded educational role of school libraries. Future research should focus on empirically assessing learning outcomes and exploring the applicability of this approach across different age groups.
Sunjae Park ; Jongwook Lee
pp.185-205
https://doi.org/10.3743/KOSIM.2025.42.3.185
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The LRM representative expression is an attribute of an expression that is transferred to the work, and it serves as a means of identifying the work. However, without clear criteria for attribute selection, catalogers must use their judgment, making it difficult to recognize attributes and values of the original or canonical expression. This study interviewed cataloging experts to examine their perceptions of representative expression attributes, focusing on ambiguous cases like works with multiple original expressions or no original expression. The findings suggest that these attributes can support efficient user searching and reduce cataloging workload. In most cases, the attributes of “content type” and “date of expression” were adopted, while different attributes were chosen depending on the form of the work, such as “language” for text and “performing medium” for music. Key issues identified during interviews included considerations for both cataloging and attribute display. To address these, the study proposes building a “core attribute set” and “displaying tailored attributes” based on the primary user group.
Hye Eun Yoo ; Jee Yeon Lee
pp.207-236
https://doi.org/10.3743/KOSIM.2025.42.3.207
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As digital transformation accelerates, researchers, including graduate students, are changing how they conduct research. However, there is a lack of research on domestic graduate students’ digital tool usage behavior in research contexts. This study aims to provide foundational data for developing research support service strategies by understanding the digital tool usage behavior of graduate students in humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary fields. To deeply analyze graduate students’ purposes, recognition pathways, challenges, and solutions regarding digital tool usage, we conducted semi-structured, in-depth interviews with 19 graduate students who had experience using digital tools and conducted content analysis of the collected data to derive research findings. The results revealed that graduate students use digital tools for various purposes throughout the research process, such as literature collection, data analysis, data management, and collaboration, with usage patterns differing by academic field. They faced challenges such as limited information accessibility, difficulty in applying tools for specific purposes, and difficulties in the learning process. To address these issues, they showed a tendency to combine multiple resources, including on- and off-campus educational programs, personal networks, and generative AI. This study contributes to understanding graduate students’ actual experience-based digital tool usage patterns and is expected to contribute to proposing research support measures, including field-specific customized education and information provision, as well as the complementary use of digital and analog resources.
HyeKyung Lee ; Yong-Gu Lee
pp.237-255
https://doi.org/10.3743/KOSIM.2025.42.3.237
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The purpose of this study is to explore the feasibility of constructing RDF-based knowledge graphs by applying generative AI to oral life history data. For this purpose, the oral life histories of seven Korean nurses dispatched to Germany were analyzed and processed through generative AI to automatically produce RDF triples. These triples were subsequently integrated to form a unified knowledge graph. The findings are as follows. First, generative AI was able to produce RDF triples from unstructured oral life history data, thereby demonstrating the possibility of knowledge structuring for such narrative sources. Second, limitations were observed in the AI’s ability to consistently generate predicates with identical or semantically similar meanings, indicating the necessity of establishing a consolidated predicate framework for effective RDF construction. Third, by integrating the RDF triples into a unified knowledge graph, it was possible to interlink individual oral life histories and visualize them for multidimensional exploration. However, challenges were observed due to the colloquial expressions, contextual-dependent nuances, and dialectal features inherent in oral history transcripts, which hindered accurate entity recognition and led to unnecessary proliferation of objects. Despite these limitations, this study holds significance as an exploratory attempt to connect oral life history research with knowledge graph construction. Furthermore, it demonstrates the potential to simplify the otherwise complex process of building knowledge graphs through generative AI, thereby suggesting broader applicability of such methods as a data resource in fields such as diaspora studies and migration history.
Nari Lee ; Jee Yeon Lee
pp.257-286
https://doi.org/10.3743/KOSIM.2025.42.3.257
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This study examines the motivations and information-seeking processes of individuals considering a career transition into librarianship. In-depth interviews were conducted with 12 individuals who had explored such a transition. The information-seeking process was analyzed using Kuhlthau’s Information Search Process (ISP) model, and career choice motivations were examined through Deci and Ryan’s Self-Determination Theory using qualitative content analysis. The analysis revealed that intrinsic motivation—particularly a preference for library spaces and books—was the most significant initial driver. In the early stages of information seeking, participants primarily focused on fulfilling autonomous motivations, such as intrinsic motivation, integrated regulation, and identified regulation. However, as the exploration progressed, their focus expanded to include controlled motivations, including introjected regulation and external regulation. The discrepancy between the preconceived image of librarianship and the actual information uncovered during the search process offers critical insight into the gap between public perception of librarians and professional reality. The main causes of this gap were identified as a lack of systematic information about the profession, perceptions shaped by fragmented personal experiences, and the absence of a strong collective professional voice. These factors influence not only individuals’ career decisions but also the broader social perception and professional status of librarians. By examining the information-seeking process involved in career transitions into librarianship, this study provides implications for improving how information about the profession is communicated.
Sung Jae Park
pp.287-309
https://doi.org/10.3743/KOSIM.2025.42.3.287
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The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of reading time on academic engagement among high school students and to investigate the mediating role of psychological well-being, which was defined in terms of life satisfaction, happiness, and self-esteem. For this purpose, data from the 2022 Korean Children and Youth Panel Survey were analyzed using regression analysis and the PROCESS macro (Model 4) to test mediation effects. The findings are as follows. First, reading time had a direct positive effect on psychological well-being. Second, both reading time and psychological well-being had direct positive effects on academic engagement. Third, reading time also indirectly influenced academic engagement through psychological well-being, and all mediation effects were found to be statistically significant. These findings suggest that reading serves not only as an instrumental activity for academic achievement but also as a multidimensional practice that enhances adolescents’ emotional stability and motivation for learning.