답변

Thank you for your interest.

We answer your questions as follows.

Q1) specific laws and regulations, relevant provisions in laws or regulations;
A1) You can view it by linking to this site. The related laws are the Libraries Act and the Small Libraries Act.
https://www.law.go.kr/LSW/eng/engMain.do?eventGubun=060124

Q2) national or regional authoritative statistics data sources;
A2) You can view it by linking to this site. The related statistics data is Small Libraries
https://www.libsta.go.kr/
https://www.smalllibrary.org/helper/data?type=%ED%86%B5%EA%B3%84

Q3) current situation and trend of these kinds of libraries in recent years;
A3) You can view it by linking to this site.
https://www.smalllibrary.org/helper/data?type=%EC%9A%B4%EC%98%81

Q4) important papers or reports worthy of reference.
A4) https://www.smalllibrary.org/helper/data?type=%EC%97%B0%EA%B5%AC

Please understand that answers 2 to 4 are Korean sites.

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