The Diagnosis and the Activation Plans on Reading of Family and Local Library

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to propose the actual condition of family and local library on reading and to propose the activation plans of reading in Korea. The survey was contucted on student, parents, and teachers. The survey included students and parents' reading hours, family reading obstacles, family reading activation requirements, local library usage frequency and purpose of use and disability requirements, and local community reading activation requirements. As a result of the study, students answered 0.76 hours per week and parents 1.42 hours per week, and students were short of books to read, and parents were short of time to read books. For the obstacles to home reading education, parents cited a lack of time for their children, lack of expertise in reading guidance, and lack of time for parents. In order to revitalize home reading, students were most hoping to secure the books they wanted to read, and parents said they should secure time to read. On the other hand, due to the status of community-linked reading, it was investigated that students visit local libraries about 2.26 times a week. As for the obstacles to the use of local libraries, students, teachers, and parents all cited the inconvenience of transportation as a priority. On the other hand, students visited to the local library is to approximately 2.26 times a week. As barriers to use the local library, students, teachers, and parents commonly cited as traffic inconvenience. Wishes to use the local library to enable ease of transport also cited as a priority. As a way to activating home reading, it was requested in the order of securing time to read books, securing books you want to read, and reading activities with your family. As a way to activating the use of local libraries, convenient transportation systems for library use, book equipment suitable for interest and interest, and recommendations of good book appeared in order. Based on these results, this paper suggested the strategies to activate reading.