The impact of privatization in Japanese public libraries

Komuro, Hiroki; Koizumi, Masanori

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Title

The impact of privatization in Japanese public libraries

Author(s)

• Komuro, Hiroki
• Koizumi, Masanori

Issue Date

2018

Keyword(s)

• privatization
• public library
• content analysis

Abstract

The management of public libraries in Japan faced a big change in 2003. Public institutions had been privatized in the world from the 1970s, but privatization of public institutions was late in Japan. Public institutions came to be privatized in Japan in the 1980s, and the public library finally became a target of the privatization in the 2000s. The numbers of libraries which introduced the privatization increases year by year. Research in the arena of library information science had been accomplished about arguments of privatization in Japanese public libraries. However, most of studies were sets of opinions to object to privatization. Therefore, the purpose of this research was to examine opinions of various stakeholders about privatization of public libraries by content analysis. The authors succeeded in collecting opinions of stakeholders from newspapers. They clarified characteristics of privatization and present arguments in Japan.

Publisher

iSchools

Series/Report Name or Number

iConference 2018 Proceedings

Type of Resource

text

Language

eng

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Copyright 2018 is held by Hiroki Komuro, Masanori Koizumi. Copyright permissions, when appropriate, must be obtained directly from the authors.

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