This article introduces the general structure and characteristics of ICC(International Centesimal Classification) including main classes and auxiliary tables - form divisions; chronological divisions; geographical divisions; language divisions; racial, ethnic, national groups; divisions of individual religion; divisions of individual language; subdivisions for individual literatures; and groups of persons.
The author reviewed the school library and information skills instruction. In order to fit the goal that is the enhancement of student's creativity, the instruction the author introduced is based on the learning model such as The big Six. She insisted that students can be creative, if they solve their classroom tasks by using such learning model for their entire school days because the learning models are structured similar to human brain's thinking process and it can help the function of human information processing system.The author suggested the improvement of the conditions of school library media centers for school library and information skills instruction to meet the goal of school, that is the creativity of students.
User education in academic libraries can be traced back to the beginning of the education for librarianship in late 19th century. Since then, perspectives in library user education and the perceptions of researchers and practitioners have changed due to new technologies. Recent literature in this field illustrates wide variety of concerns and issues of user education in academic libraries. This paper attempts to highlight such issues and perceptions regrading the subject. It suggests that some fundamental features of LIS education require attention. Suggestions are outlined along with the strong recommendations in terms of the importance of critical thinking and reading, user education as a tool of library promotion, and the politics of academic library user education.
After division of Germany, East Germany was established as a socialistic nation. The new socialistic nation needed new systems in many different areas such as political, social, educational and cultural. In the new political system based on socialistic ideology the administrative organization and political parties used the academic libraries as a political instrument. Thus the members of the political parties exercised socialistic ideology on the management of the libraries. For example, in the appointment of the library directors, in the education and training of librarians, in the collecting development policy, in managing the seditious materials etc the influence of socialism can be seen.
The purpose of this article is to discuss both management philosophy and development strategies that Korean university libraries should have and follow for a healthy and steady development in such a rapid and dynamic digital environment. To the end, the substance of the undergoing 'environmental change' was identified, and the needed new roles and functions of university libraries were also analyzed. Also discussed is the intrinsic limitations of university libraries which might have negative impacts on the libraries' active effort to cope with such changes. Finally, this article suggests that both philosophical and practical strategies and methods in order for the university libraries to overcome such limitations and to prosper in the near future.
In this study, the best Total Quality Management(TQM) implementation model for university libraries is focused through the study of the theoretical background, such as the concept, the quality and the development of TQM. The study on the application of TQM to university libraries was started with the recognition that university libraries have to work out a new strategy of a positive and active counter plan to cope with the change of environment. The detailed purpose of this study is (1) the diagnosis of the applicability of TQM to university libraries (2) the suggestion of the TQM implementation models suitable for university libraries (3) the analysis of the influence of the manager's leadership-which is the fundamental factor of TQM-over the organization's culture, the job satisfaction, the consumer satisfaction in the university libraries organization Management.
Korean medical libraries have made interlibrary loan active under the korean medical library association since 1969, the sharing acquisition of journals has not been performed efficiently in the absence of a bibliographic control institute.The medical library of seoul national medical university which is designated to a medical professional information center by korea education academy information developed MEDLIS linking the union catalog and interlibrary loan system and has been operating it in cooperation with the korean medical library association.Two types of questionaries were sent to 350 medical researchers and 160 medical librarians to investigate the realities of domestic and foreign medical information institutes, develop sharing systems and find a solution for sharing systems. Also, some analyses for the recent state of duplicate subscriptions, interlibrary loan, demands for system operations on the basis of the statistics of MEDLIS users were made.The result showed that medical researchers and medical librarians are affirmative for MEDLIS, users need a convenient interlibrary loan system and medical librarians agree to activate interlibrary loan. It also showed that sharing acquisition of journals seemed to be realizable for medical librarians, although there was no intention to improve the centralization of interlibrary loan among them.From the findings, a plan for sharing acquisition of journals established by the sharing acquisition committee under korea medical libraries society and national 8 local centers to play a key role in it was made. Also, a proposal for the establishment of an information center for controlling korean medical bibliographies was suggested. This system will be expected to contribute to make users to acquire materials more effectively and save the national budget.