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Public library volunteering,volunteerism inpublic library,volunteeringmotivation,volunteer satisfaction,continuation will ofvolunteering,contributing intention to the library,VFI, Volunteer Function Inventory

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Why is it important?

This study intends to develop an integrated model to analyze the behaviors of public library volunteers’ activities in order to help the libraries to utilize them as helpful and important human resources. An integrated structural equation model which consists of factors affecting volunteering, volunteer satisfaction, continuation will of volunteering, and loyalty/contributing intention to the library has been developed and tested using survey data from 401 public library volunteers in Daegu Metropolitan City, Korea.

Perspectives

As an exploratory research effort different from so much former descriptive research on volunteers and their behaviors in library volunteering studies, this research based on the integrated model can provide a kind of foundation for further research on and operational management of public library volunteers. It can also help, in practical aspects, in how the public library functions as an organization to distribute volunteers’ points of satisfactions, the continuation will of volunteering, and loyalty and contributing intention to the library as kinds of benefits back to them at large.

Dong Geun Oh
Keimyung University

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This page is a summary of: Analysis of the factors affecting volunteering, satisfaction, continuation will, and loyalty for public library volunteers: An integrated structural equation model, Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, December 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0961000617747338.
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