• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Information Management Conference
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• 2006.08a
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• pp.93-100
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• 2006

The purpose of this study is to improve mobile service in academic libraries that can support the real-time need of users. This paper consists of the literature research, present status research, case studies and questionnaire survey. Based on the literature review, present status research, case studies and survey, the managerial plans to expand mobile service are suggested as four aspects - development of service types, expansion of the facilities and collections, marketing and evaluation.

• Journal of Information Management
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• v.43 no.1
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• pp.63-87
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• 2012

This study aims to analyse the actual condition of the ebook services and propose the improvements of ebook services for children in the Korean public library. For this purpose, the current condition of the ebook services in the public libraries were analyzed and categorized by three criteria. Secondly, the ebook use analysis was conducted using PCs and mobile devices in terms of access to ebook library site, searching method, contents type and viewer, lending process, and user help. As a result of the analysis, several issues such as the difficulty in access to ebook site, the complexity of setting and usage depending on the file format, the insufficient user guide, the relatively lower quality service than the commercial's, and the lack of retrieval functions specialized for the ebook were presented. The improvement plan for the ebook services, especially for children in the public library was suggested.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.58 no.2
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• pp.177-198
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• 2024

Article 22(1) of the Library Act, which was completely revised in December 2006, stipulated that regional representative libraries are statutory organizations, and Article 25(1) of the Library Act, which was revised again in late 2021, renamed them as metropolitan representative libraries and expanded their duties. The reason why cities and provinces are required to specify or establish and operate metropolitan representative libraries is that in addition to their role as public libraries for public information use, cultural activities, and lifelong learning as stipulated in Article 23 of the Act, they are also responsible for the legal works of metropolitan representative libraries as stipulated in Article 26, and lead the development of libraries and knowledge culture by serving as policy libraries, comprehensive knowledge information centers, support and cooperation centers, research centers, and joint preservation libraries for all public libraries in the city or province. Therefore, it is necessary to analyze and diagnose whether the metropolitan representative library has been faithfully fulfilling its legal works for the past 15 years(2009-2023), and whether it is properly providing the results of its statutory planning and implementation on its website to meet the digital and mobile era. Therefore, this study investigated and analyzed the performance of the metropolitan representative library for the last two years based on the current statutory tasks and evaluated the extent to which it provides them through its website, and suggested complementary measures to strengthen its web services. As a result, it was analyzed that the web services for legal works that the metropolitan representative library should perform are quite insufficient and inadequate, so it suggested complementary measures such as building a website for legal works on the homepage, enhancing accessibility and visibility through providing an independent website, providing various policy information and web services (portal search, inter-library loan, one-to-one consultation, joint DB construction, data transfer and preservation, etc.), and ensuring digital accessibility of knowledge information for the vulnerable.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.51 no.2
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• pp.355-379
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• 2020

Digital Library System(DLS) for the school library is a key access tool for school library materials. The purpose of this study was to find ways to improve the accessibility of materials through analysis of students' information search behavior in DLS. Data were collected through recording of 42 participants' DLS search process, and questionnaire. As a result, the search success rate and search satisfaction were found to be lower when the main purpose of DLS is simple leisure reading, information needs are relatively ambiguous, and when user experiences the complicated situations in the search process. The satisfaction level of search time sufficiency was the highest, and the search result satisfaction was the lowest. Besides, there was a need to improve DLS, such as integrated search of other library collection information, the recommendation of related materials, the print output of collection location, voice recognition through mobile apps, and automatic correction of search errors. Through this, the following can be suggested. First, DLS should complement the function of providing career information by reflecting the demand of education consumers. Second, improvements to DLS functionality to the general information retrieval system level must be made. Third, an infrastructure must be established for close cooperation between school library field personnel and DLS management authorities.

• Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.189-212
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• 2021

The purpose of this study is to analyze an usage behavior for the public library website through web traffic. For this purpose, using Google Analytics and growth hacking technique, the data of A public library website log was analyzed for three months from August 1, 2021 to October 31, 2021. As a result of the study, the young age group of 18-24 years old and 25-34 years old recorded a high rate of new member registration, & it was found that the inflow rate through SNS was high for external inflows. As a result of analysis for the access rate by time, it was found that the time with the highest inflow rate was between 10 am and 11 am both on Wednesday and Friday. As a access channel, the access rate using mobile (64.90%) was quite high, but at the same time, the bounce rate (27.20%) was higher than the average (24.93%), & the rate of duration time (4 minutes 33 seconds) was lower than thee average (5 minutes 22 seconds). Finally, it was found that the utilization rate of reading program events and online book curation service, which the library focuses on producing and promoting, is very low. These research results can be used as basic data for future improvement of public library websites.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.48 no.1
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• pp.397-421
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• 2017

The utilization and integration of different reading technologies has increased exponentially in recent years with no limits in the foreseeable future. This is no surprise, as the versatility of new technology devices makes information accessible at any minute of any day anywhere in the world. The possible reading uses for such devices are immeasurable, and have already seen widespread usage by readers all over the country. While these statements are more or less obvious, more research must be conducted to discover which means are the most effective and why. This study aims to provide a basic framework for analyzing the organization and quality of mobile application devices for reading comprehension purposes. The study also hopes to highlight and/or clarify more effective reading means with differing technologies.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.148-156
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• 2011

Recently, an introduction of the cloud computing causes rapid changes in every aspect of the internet environments including hardware, operating systems, applications, and their services. As the cloud computing environment based on SaaS are being developed to a form in which web platform technology and web cloud services are converged. The digital library system also has been being developed to a service model optimized to SaaS based cloud computing environment, which are different from ASP technology. From the web interface point of view, user customization of the SaaS based cloud computing environment is the most important fact. Therefore, this research work suggests a customized web interface considering usability and accessibility so that enterprises and individual users can be able to do an effortless internet browsing under the cloud computing environment. For this purpose, usability tests were carried out as the user customized web interface design were developed and applied to the LinkSaaS website. This paper work lastly presents an UI environment on which customized interface design for individual users can be formulated.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.52 no.2
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• pp.275-301
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• 2021

The purpose of the research is to find out both what information tweens (12~14 years old adolescents) need and how they use YouTube to satisfy with their information needs. In order to achieve the goal, the research collected the data by conducting a survey on tweens (N=130) and analyzed the data with statistical processes. The research found out some significant results: first, tweens frequently use the informaton on YouTube and search for leisure information most often. Second, tweens search for information on YouTube because of ease and convenience on learning information even though they do not trust the information on YouTube. Third, tweens regard that YouTube play the role as a significant information source and searching tool, and use information on YouTube because the information on YouTube are composed of easy-to-understand video format. On the basis of the results, the research suggests and discusses how information organization such as public or school libraries provide information services for youth groups effectively.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.52 no.1
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• pp.279-300
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• 2021

The present study aimed to investigate the information needs and information seeking behavior of consumers who attempted to quit or maintain the ceasing of smoking and analyze the effects of the health information obtained at different stages. In particular, we examined how consumers use mobile health applications(health apps) as aids to change unhealthy behaviors and how their use of health apps influence health behavior changes. For 7 months from December 2017 to July 2018, the researchers observed changes in smoking behaviors of college students who use smoking-cessation apps and conducted face-to-face interviews. Regarding the effects of smoking-cessation apps, the participants in the action stage reported that they were encouraged to quit smoking by visualized information such as the number of days of smoking cessation, change of health status, and the saving of money due to smoking cessation. The participants in the maintenance stage highlighted that smoking cessation apps were helpful in recognizing the importance and achievement of smoking cessation by sharing experiences and social support with other attempters in the app community. The study provided theoretical implications in the field of information behavior in that it identified the particular types of information needs and information-seeking behavior of the consumers who were using mobile apps in their behavior modification process. In addition, those findings can contribute to designing the contents of the smoking cessation apps that reflect the information needs of those who attempt to cease smoking and further suggest practical insights to health information services that promote effective information intervention strategies in health behavior change.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.61-64
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• 2004

최근 PDA(Personal Digital Assistants)와 같은 휴대형 단말기들은 다양한 멀티미디어 기술과 무선 인터넷 기술의 영향으로 정보단말기로서 각광을 받고 있다. 그러나 현재의 단말기는 프로세서와 메모리의 한계로 인하여 원활한 음성인식 시스템을 구축하기에는 한계가 있다. 이를 보완하는 방법으로 본 논문에서는 Client/server로 분리된 음성 인식 시스템을 구축하였다. 구축한 시스템은 무선 네트워크 환경을 이용하여 PDA(Personal Digital Assistants)에서 음성 파일 또는 특징 파라미터를 Serve 측으로 전송하여 Server측에서 음성 인식을 수행한 후 그 결과를 모바일 단말기로 되돌려 주는 시스템이다. 구성된 시스템을 평가하기 위해서는 국어 공학센터의 음성 DB(KLE 452DB)를 이용하여 음향 모델을 생성한 후 다양한 환경(연구실, 복도, 주차장 도서관 로비)에서 발성한 후 이를 교내 무선 인터넷망(Nespot)을 통하여 송신하여 실시간 인식하였다. 실험 결과, 각각 $84.04\%\;72.28\%\;69.47\%\;67.61\%$의 평균 인식률을 얻을 수 있었다.