"Daigaku tosyokan no gyomu bunseki" : A Trial of Separation of Professional and Nonprofessional Duties in College and University Libraries in Japan

Abstract

"Daigaku tosyokan no gyomu bunseki"(A Report on Descriptive List of Professional and Nonprofessional Duties in College and University Libraries)(hereafter cited as the gyomu bunseki)is a report on a list of duties being made for the use in college and university libraries in Japan.The gyomu bunseki was made foollowing the trends of the separation of duties in Anglo-American libraries.The gyomu bunseki was made by the Special Committee on the Professionalism of Certified Librarian of the Association on the Library Director of National University Libraries(afterward, the Council of National University Libraries), and was published by the Japan Library Association in 1968.The purpose of this paper is to clarify the establishing process of the gyomu bunseki and its influence on the Japanese library circles.For this study, 44 literatures on the gyomu bunseki and related papers were gathered and analyzed.Moreover, to have more information, I interviewed Mr.Toshio Iwasaru who had been the chief draftsman of the gyomu bunseki.As the results, following facts were elucidated.1)Significance of the gyomu bunseki was(1)specifing all duties in college and university libraries, and(2)specifing highly professional duties in college and university libraries.2)As the limits of the gyomu bunseki, following facts were cited.Namely, (1)there was no writing how to use it, (2)there was no specification who took charge of nonprofessional duties and interim measures, (3)no revision was made on it afterward.3)At that time, in the Japanese library circles, library science research and education were not matured to accept the gyomu bunseki as the foundation of library managements.4)However, the gyomu bunseki was a firstly proposed list of duties and it showed the whole system of the library works in college and university libraries in Japan.Therefore, it is a basic literature for thinking about how libraries should be managed hereafter.