• KLA journal
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• v.43 no.3 s.334
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• pp.32-38
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• 2002

작년 겨울쯤 발행된 책 중 앤 패디먼이 쓴 'Ex Libris 서재 결혼시키기'라는 책을 본 적이 있는가? 이 책 서문에 저자가 한 말들이 참 인상적이다. '책은 선반 가운데가 내려앉은 내 책꽂이들을 빽뺵하게 채우고 있는 그 수많은 잡동사니로부터 내가 창조하려고 했던 그 전체이다' 또한 '책들은 우리의 삶의 이야기를 써 나간다. 책들이 우리 서가에(또 창틀에, 소파 밑에, 냉장고 위에) 쌓이면서 그 한 권 한 권이 우리 삶의 이야기의 한 장을 구성하게 된다.'라고 읊조리고 있다. 우리의 삶을 대변해주는 책... 우리는 책을 통해 삶을 제대로 살기 위한 많은 것을 얻고 배운다. 즉, 책을 읽는다는 건 인생을 제대로 살아가는 법을 배우는 것... 자신의 내면에 깊숙이 존재하는 잠재력을 깨우기 위해 여행을 떠나는 것이 아닌가? 자신과 닮은꼴인 책... 그런 책을 내 분신과 같이 좀 더 소중하게 여기고 가깝게 느낄 수 있는 특별한 만남을 갖기 위해 장서표와 예술제본에 대해 알아보았다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.185-208
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• 2002

Information service for the aged is a new challenge for public libraries in Korea. To develop an internet-based information service at public library perspectives, information sources, information need, and information seeking and using behavior are investigated. Interview survey is performed to 1060 adults aged 60 and over. Finding revealed that the respondents led to few channels to information except for mass media and informal oral communication. It ascertain ways in which 23% of the respondents currently use internet, and identify barriers of nonusers. The information need of the elderly are diverse, but health/medicine, news, hobbies, religion, leisure/travel are most identified need in descending order. Based on data analysis and previous research results, a cooperative service model consisting of information contents, online reference, interface design, and education is developed. Finally problems and suggestions for future improvement are discussed.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.163-181
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• 2001

The Internet offers a challenging information seeking environment for users due to a great amount of information, heterogeneous objects, and diverse information quality. The purpose of this study was to identify the ways of information seeking, evaluating, and using in the Internet by looking at search behaviors of science and engineering scholars in Korean university. The research problems addressed in the study include the utility of web information, information searching strategies, the extent of search engines usage, and scholarly value of information in the Internet. The data were collected through individual interviews with 28 scholars recruited from science and engineering fields at the Myongji University. It was found that the scholars in this study less likely turn to search engines for finding research information than types of information while they use search engines primarily for searching personal information such as travel and hobbies. This is partly because the scholars believe that the information, especially research-related information, in the Internet lacks the value as scholarly information. They also tend to believe that foreign literature available in the Internet is more credible, professional, and recent than domestic literature. In conclusion, the implications for search engine developers, librarians, and researchers as users and producers in the Internet are discussed.