As we enter the 21st century, Korean libraries have embarked on a journey of change. The reason that libraries in Korea have sought to achieve dynamic changes is that various citizens’ organizations have analyzed the issue from their point of view, deduced the problem, conveyed this to the general public and thus revitalized the structure of mutual understanding in reaching a solution. The two most notable civilian organizations active in the Korean library area are ‘the National Union for Revival of School Libraries’ and ‘the Citizen Action for Reading Culture’. This study examined the history and activities of these organizations and investigated how they worked with the central and local governments for improving school and public libraries and for promoting reading.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of online information literacy instruction as liberal arts course offered at Sungkyunkwan university. For this purpose, Curriculum was designed in the way of interactive online tutorials. And the results of pre-and post-tests and the term-end student course evaluation data were analyzed. The results were as follows. Five basic information literacy competencies were improved through Online course. And the effect of Online instruction did show the statistical significance, but had a difference by department. Also, There appeared to be a relatively high level of Students' satisfaction with the curriculum. Therefore, this study revealed that online information literacy instruction as liberal arts course is a highly effective method for teaching information literacy to undergraduate students.
At the public library, one researcher analyzed the present condition. Information literacy was conducted among elementary school students to seek a better solution through the consideration of the features of the public library. This study was done because the education functional status of the public library was reinforced and also increased the need for the information literacy. In this study, Improved plan for the information literacy operation which considers the public library‘s features, was offered according to the facilities, materials, librarian, student and information literacy program and the improved plan for the information literacy was offered according to the education preparation, education method and education progress.
Recently, there have been a number of news reports on natural disasters, like earthquakes, typhoons, floods and tsunami, all over the world. Korea does not seem to be safe from such disasters or terror threats. As places with high numbers of visitors, libraries need to take preventive measures to be prepared for such disasters and threats. This paper analyzes the current status of emergency measures adopted by 75 public libraries in Seoul, Daejeon and Jeonbuk in Korea. For each library surveyed, the causes of and ways to recover from disasters were reviewed and detailed analyses were carried out in four areas: Implementation of preventive measures, disaster management and equipment, status of human resources and assignment of people to disaster recovery, safety courses offered to library users and training methods. In addition, each area was analyzed in regard to possible solutions and ideas for improvement, as well as suggestions to upgrade disaster recovery systems in the future.
Joint collection and sharing of specialized academic resources among academic libraries will not only promote academic research at universities in general but also further diversification and concentration process of academic libraries. For that both the government and universities should make concerted policy efforts to fortify individual characteristics of each academic library. This study proposes two concrete plans to build a national information management system comprising the specialized resources of academic libraries. One is to utilize the existing cooperative network of Korea Education & Research Information Service(KERIS) as a national hub for information exchange, and the other is to activate various regional or subject-based committees to encourage subject-oriented specialization of university libraries.
The purpose of this study is to explore the mid- and long-term strategies for activating the management of academic libraries in Korea and strengthening the knowledge-based society, which should be carried out by the government. In this study, major trends and problems that academic libraries in Korea have been currently facing are analyzed, and development strategies and a plan of operations for various tasks, which are aimed at improving the overall environment of academic libraries, are suggested. Also proposed is the road map of development for the improvement of academic libraries on the national level, based on the comprehensive analysis of the findings in this study.
This study analyzed the gap between users' perception and staff expectations on users' perceptions about dimensions of library service quality(library staff, service supports, materials and resources, and facilities and equipments), service value, user satisfaction, royalty, using newly developed model. Six hundred-fourteen users and one hundred staff members of the National Library of Korea were participated in the survey using questionnaires. Users evaluated service quality lower but evaluated service value, satisfaction, and loyalty higher. In terms of showing complaining behaviors, users were less than staffs expected. Model analysis for users and staffs showed that service value and general satisfaction influenced on complaining behavior and loyalty. For users, only the dimension of library staff influenced significantly on the service value, satisfaction, complaining behavior, and loyalty. None of the other dimensions of the service quality showed significant relationship to them in the case of staff expectation.
The purpose of the study was to suggest a model for copyright policy development in the academic libraries. For this purpose, the study investigated the relevant literature, performed a questionnaire survey of 200 academic libraries in Korea, and analyzed the provisions of the copyright policies of 14 academic institutions and libraries in America. According to the result of the questionnaire survey, only 5% of the libraries had their own copyright policies, and 95% of the no-policy-libraries were in need of the development of the policies. And based on the result of the case study on the copyright policies, the study categorized the copyright ownership of the works created by community members into 10 cases and suggested policy alternatives in each cases.
Retention schedule is the most essential tool for accurate documentation of government activities. The purpose of this study is to provide a guideline for redesigning retention schedules to support systematic documentation of government activities, that can replace the existing retention schedule(‘bunryukijunpyo’). This present paper begins with articulating the role of retention schedules in life cycle management of records based on ISO 15489. And it compares and analyses ‘disposal authorities’ of Australia, ‘records schedules’ of United States, and the existing records retention schedules of Korea, in terms of types, structure and components of retention schedules. Based on these analyses, it suggests directives to redesign the retention schedules at the state level.
This research analyzes the current status of personal name authority control and its impact on the end user searching against OPACs in public libraries in Korea. Further, it also suggests the ways to improve the recall ratio in author search with a minimal modification, system-wise and authority-wise, on the KOLISNET as a stepping stone for other public libraries. Finally, a long-term plan for establishing proper authority work in public libraries including the National Library of Korea is briefly proposed. In order to find out whether authority works are conducted and examine how variant written forms of the same foreign name and variant names of the same person are treated, OPACS of the National Library of Korea, KOLISNET, and ten randomly selected public libraries were searched. Findings indicate that while the National Library of Korea was performing authority control, even incomplete, the rest did not appear to conduct any form of authority control. As a spinoff of the research, it is observed that in many public libraries their bibliographic records and retrieval methods are inaccurate, lacking consistency, and incomplete. In sum, it is strongly recommended that (1) as a start for authority work among public libraries personal name authority control should be conducted to enhance the identifying and collocating functions in OPACs, (2) a shared authority database, for which the National Library of Korea's authority database might be used, should be built for public libraries.
This study aims to explicate the properties of the existing xylographic books in Buddhism published in the old region of Yangju, Gyeonggi-do by investigating them and carrying out the analyses of them. For this, we have investigated, in addition to literature and xylographic bibles, Buddhist books which are now possessed by principal libraries and temples in Yangju. 99 kinds of Buddhist books had been published by 14 temples at the region of Yangju. It is in the late Chosun that Buddhist books in the region of Yangju were actively published. Bulamsa has published the greatest amount of 53 kinds of books. we can find out that Buddhist bibles were actively published, and uncanonical books and Esoteric Buddhist bibles with strong characteristics of worldly benedictions and Praja-Paramita emphasizing the thought of emptiness. As for publishing methods, 85 kinds of books were xylographic and 14 kinds of books were published with wooden types. There were direct and indirect supports from the ruling class on most of the temples that published Buddhist books. Temples happened to co-publish Buddhist books.
Tools are needed to have access to more effective information and to select it in the environment of digital information where information pours in, and some of the advanced techniques to make up these tools are metadata and annotation. Annotation additionally records the marks for the supplementary explanation of and emphasis on a specific part of the original text and has more various merits than metadata in terms of the search and use of digital resources. This research aims at suggesting methods that annotation, which has a range of functions including access to information, its reuse and sharing in the digital surroundings of late, can be applied to digital contents such as web services, digital libraries and electronic books. As to the research method, the case studies of annotation systems applied to web services and digital libraries have been carried out, and the metadata formation of the systems has been analyzed.
Many public libraries in Korea have a library service charter setting out the standard of service users can expect. It will help drive and sustain a process of continuous improvement in library service quality and help poster good relations with users, most of whom will appreciate library efforts to take account of their views. In this background, the purposes of the study are ① to study a theoretical review of the library service charter, ② to explore an analytical evaluation of charter's contents, through a library service charter of ‘B’ public library in located Gyeonggido. Analytical results generally, ‘B’ public library's charter fulfills the charter's principles and criteria, but service practice standards are insufficient for appropriateness and realization.
The purpose of this study is to closely examine the factors affecting the organizational commitment of public librarians. To do this, I have classified the factors related to organizational commitment into personal circumstantial factor, role factor, job factor, and organizational climate; and tried to explain the difference in organizational commitment according to each specific factor and which factor most heavily affected the organizational commitment. To do this, I have conducted document studies and surveys. As the result of the study, I have analyzed that the job factor effect the organizational commitment of public librarians the most among the four factors; personal circumstantial factor, role factor, job factor, and organizational climate. In succession, organizational climate, personal circumstantial factor was next in line. And the role factor was analyzed as the factor that least affected the organizational commitment of public librarians.
The purpose of this study is principle and theory of main class in a Library Classification. According to Sayers, “The foundation of the library is the book; the foundation of librarianship is classification.” We looked at the between scientific and bibliographic classification, and at the fact that bibliographic scheme is usually an aspect classification. That is to say, the organization of topics is based on areas or activity, and the first division of the scheme is into disciplines or subject domains. This first division of classification creates what are called main class. The sequence of main classes is also important. A rough definition of a amin class is that it corresponds to a single notational character. Main classes usually equivalent to traditional disciplines. What constitutes a main class will vary from one classification to another. The order in which the main classes are listed is often discussed at the theoretical level, and some orders are considered to be better than others.
The purpose of this study is to develop a practical model for enhancing cooperative virtual reference services of public libraries in the nation. The research methods include an examination of model cases from Europe and the U.S. and also an electronic questionnaire survey of 375 public librarians (73% response rate). The study results suggest the need for “a collaborative virtual reference room" which consists of the collaborative reference database, virtual reference desk, guidance and instruction designed by age groups and/or subjects.
In this study we made a try to define the concept of national information resources in science and technology fields and analyzed the current status through the comprehensive examination. And more detailed current status are investigated about building database for each type of national information resources and distribution throuth Internet services. To the end we described the problems and suggested the considerations for the future.