I explained about the process of enactment, revision, background and main prints of Library Law enacted on October 28, 1963 and the subsequent revised or enacted laws, dealt with the important contents of the laws and suggested the problems and improvements of the early laws and the late laws by compraing, analyzing and examining
European Union has recently encouraged its member states to enforce the Public Lending right that is a remuneration system for free lending service in public libraries. This study reviews the problem and the actual conditions of Public Lending Right System which is systematized in European Union and a few advanced countries. By analyzing the present state of many states which is running the public lending right system, this study also explores a reasonable compensation system which remunerate a copyrighter for his rending right and ensure the fair use tradition in libraries,
The Journals of medical libraries are the primary resources of medical library collections, and the majority of them are foreign journals.Recently, medical libraries have some difficulties in purchasing materials due to the rapidly increasing journal prices and the curtailment in the budget. A proposal for the establishment of an information center for controlling Korean medical bibliographies was suggested. This system will be expected to contribute to the users for acquiring materials more effectively.
The purpose of this study is to identify useful factors for the curriculum development of the archival program in Korea by analyzing archival graduate programs of the Schools of Library and Information Science in English-speaking Canada. Name and history of the schools, degrees, credits, required and elective courses, practice, research, and faculty of archival programs, and the official guidelines of ACA and SAA are compared by analyzing web sites and literature review. It is found that Canadian LIS schools offer independent archival programs with a separate MAS degree or a specialization. University of British Columbia, the first LIS school that has a separate MAS degree program, provides a systematically developed curriculum. It also reveals that Canadian archival programs are based on their own principles and SAA guidelines because ACA guidelines are out of date. Based upon the analysis of the archival programs in Canada, the current situations of the archival graduate programs in Korea are compared and several suggestions are made for the direction of successful archival education in Korea in the end..
According to increase number of electronic publications, teacher and student demand them in their teaching and learning activities. So school libraries must provide various materials(ex : printed, audio-visual and electronic materials). The purpose of this study is to identify the use of electronic publications in school libraries and to suggest the methods of utilization of them.
The purpose of this study was to find out how the leadership of superiors at the university library - transformational and transactional leadership - could affect the job satisfaction of subordinates. For this purpose, verification was performed with the subject of 155 librarians working at 11 university libraries in Busan. The following are the results of this study. 1) There was positive correlation between the leadership type of superiors and the job satisfaction of subordinates. Transformational leadership turned out to have higher correlation with job satisfaction than transactional leadership. 2) Intellectual stimulation·inspiration affects promotion practices and supervision style. 3) When analyzing the controlling effect of individual characteristics, only gender and marital status are used as a controlling variables between transformational leadership and job satisfaction
UN has decided to observe the year 1999 as the International Year of Older Persons (IYOP). Since that year, older persons should have equal access to information in order to function effectively in an information society for all. Public library should be a important access point for older persons, and above all, be a leading role to bridge digital devide in the regional community. There are, however, few policies or guidelines for public library services to older persons in Korea. This is a time for developing these ones at the national level. In this study, the draft for public library services to older persons is suggested.
This study outlined the malpractice of information professionals, including librarians and information brokers, providing inaccurate and insufficient information to the users, which was derived from the lack of reasonable care in the performance of professional duties and caused actual damage to the users. The author analysed the essential requirements for the charge of information malpractice and suggested the method of safeguard against it.
URIs are identifier schemes for reliable information access. To achieve more reliable access to resource this study used existing bibliographic numbers, ISBN, ISSN, NBN as URN. For the purpose of this study, 10 study standards from the URN requirement of function capability, coding capability, and URN framework were set. Under the standards examined existing bibliographic numbers can be used as URN and so URN resolution systems using existing bibliographic numbers were designed.
This study is to investigate extensively the complaint responses of the academic library users, with a special regard to those in Daegu Metropolitan City and in Kyungpook Province. It selects and analyzes empirically some of the antecedents of the complaining intentions including perceived severity of dissatisfaction, perception of free use, attitude toward complaining, cost of the complaining, likelihood of success, product/service importance, external attributions and loyalty; and complaint intentions including exit intention, voice(redress seeking) intention, negative word-of-mouth intention and third party complaints intention, of the academic library users, based on the theoretical backgrounds. Final data through questionnaires are obtained from 582 unsatisfied academic library users in 5 universities in those areas, 542 of them analysed with SPSS 11.0 for Windows.
The introduction of information technology into the organizations managing knowledge and information which include libraries has caused some confusion to the identity of libraries and librarianship. The libraries and librarians in the societies whose library development lags behind like ours prefer being called information centers or information specialists to libraries and librarians. This paper traces what has been discussed for the professionalism of librarians and how librarians, who want to be treated properly in status as professionals, understand the professionalism.
Interface is a communication mechanism between users and information system. This research suggests the guidelines for the user interface design in the IR system. For the development, we would survey and analyse the major library's IR interface windows. It is included in the guidelines and suggestions that IR's windows, data process icons and display's icons of the information retrieval results. So this research's results are utilized to the standard interface development for the information services.
This study works on how to change the public library paradigm in the side view of library faculties and environments, digital library, culture and structure. Also, here manages the need of knowledge management and components with the status problem of public library for a basis. This study aims to propose the total knowledge management model based on the knowledge management frameworks ; management strategy, the human resources, processing, and network.