A Study on the Outsourcing the Cataloging and Classification in the National Library of Korea

The critical strength of outsourcing system is to enhance the competitive power of the company by applying the centralization of management resources. This strategy has been used in library management and become the general method. The libraries in the U.S. stated to adopt the outsourcing system to organize the information of library works. Those in Korea also commence to use this method later on. The main reason of outsourcing the cataloging and classification works in the library was to reduce the budget; however, result were diverse. The efficiency on performing works was positive while the quality of bibliographic record was not guaranteed. Regardless of various opinions, The National Library of Korea decided to apply the method to cataloging and classification considered as a major work in maintaining library. This study is to analyze and criticize the decision made by The National Library of Korea.

keywords: 아웃소싱, 자료정리, 국립중앙도서관

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Vol.16 No.1

A Study on the Outsourcing the Cataloging and Classification in the National Library of Korea

Abstract

한국비블리아학회지