A Survey of Taiwan Public Librarians' Quality of Working Life

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to introduce the concept of Quality of Working Life (QWL) to the library and information field and to assess the QWL among public librarians. The researcher explores every aspects of QWL among the public librarians in Taiwan and the result of an empirical study is presented. Also, by promoting public librarians' understanding of QWL concepts, researcher would like to urge public librarians to pursuit a higher level of QWL, and in turn to improve the service quality of public library. (Article content in Chinese with English abstract)

Keywords

• quality of working life
• public librarian
• public library