Introduction Any country hoping to build a knowledge-based society must provide free access to knowledge and information. An optimal sociocultural tool that countries can use is the library, as it is both a time capsule of analog knowledge and an area to share digital information. This is supported and evidenced by the fact that advanced countries, early on, utilized libraries to increase the literacy of their people and narrow the knowledge gap of socially marginalized people. People must feel that public libraries are readily accessible and available for reading to become widespread and a part of life. In so doing, quality of life can increase. Based on this understanding and rationale, the Korean government designated public libraries as a social safety net guaranteeing the right to information and culture and has made efforts to provide every class of people with easy access to public libraries. However, unlike the knowledge and information superpowers of the USA and UK, which analyzed and provided comprehensive information regarding librarians’ duties some time ago, there has been no study, analysis or verification at the regional