A Study on Improvement of NCS Duty Components in `Library and Information Management` by Evaluation of the Importance and Utilization

This study was performed in order to derive components that librarians think preferentially necessary and realistically important when applying the NCS ‘Library and Information Administration’s duty’ to the library working environments. It was possible by evaluating and analyzing the importance and utilization of ability unit and its element which are the components of NCS ‘Library and Information Administration’s duty’. First, ability units of ‘User Information Services’, ‘Reading and Culture Programs’ were higher in importance and utilization at the same time. Ability units of ‘Library and Information Practical Research Perform’, ‘Library and Information Curation’, ‘Library and Information System Operation’ were lower in importance and utilization when we evaluate the importance and utilization of ability unit and its element which are the components of NCS ‘Library and Information Administration’s duty’. Second, components of ‘Reading and Culture Programs’, ‘User Information Service’, ‘Library and Information Collection’ were higher in the order, and components of ‘Library and Information Curation’, ‘Library and Information System Operation’, ‘Library and Information Practical Research Perform’ were found lower in demands as the desirable level and the current level appear less common when we analyzed the demands on the duty components utilizing Borich requirements analysis model. Third, six ability units of ‘Reading and Culture Programs’, ‘User Information Services’, ‘Library and Information Collection’, ‘Library and Information Services Marketing’, ‘Library and Information Preservation’, ‘Library and Information Use Analysis’ were derived as priority components when we analyzed the priority of the duty component (ability unit) utilizing The Locus for Focus model.