• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.41 no.2
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• pp.219-236
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• 2007

This study was to build a collaborative digital library model between KSTI and JST for sharing science and technology information created in Korea and Japan. For this study, digital library framework, it's main concepts and widely-used digital library technologies were investigated. And also, best practices of collaborative digital library were surveyed to characterize collaborative digital library trends. Collaborative Sci-Tech digital library model proposed in this study can be applied in real environment and expanded into other institutions and/or subject areas.

• 한국경영정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.06a
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• pp.115-119
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• 2007

Huge amount of useful information is getting added to the academic digital world everyday, This digitalized information is heterogeneous and remained limited to a local domain only. How to integrate and share this scattered knowledge with simplicity remained a big challenge. In this paper, we propose a prototype of web application for accomplishing above task using web 2.0 features; it makes traditional academic digital libraries to form as a special case of collaborative environment. This application enables users to customize their own resources to form their own virtual digital library. Further users can utilize personalized information of other users working in similar research domain to form true collaborative environment. The model and framework for the new look of academic digital library is presented.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.47 no.3
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• pp.207-226
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• 2013

Although it is about a decade since public libraries started to provide digital information services, lack of expertise for efficient service operation and restrictions related to copyrights have led to failure to obtain remarkable performances in uses. This study intends to analyze operation cases of domestic and overseas collaborative digital information services, as well as the current status of digital information services of libraries in Gyeonggido, thereby developing a collaborative digital information service model among public libraries on the level of local governments. This research then analyzed collaborative digital information service Web sites and surveys. Based on the analysis result, this study presented support of integrated search of possessed electronic information, Web database (DB), DB on original texts of regional records, online reference services, and mobile platforms as functional factors to embody a successful service model. As a system management road map, an eclectic model combining the merits of centralized and decentralized models was found to be more effective than a centralized or decentralized model in consideration of the characteristics of participating organizations.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.45 no.1
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• pp.11-27
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• 2011

This paper aims to seek ways of optimizing the operations of Collaborative Digital Reference Service(CDRS) in Korea. CDRS tries to specialize the reference service through world-wide collaborative service. In this study seven international CDRS services including "QuestionPoint" operated by ALA and one national service, "Ask a Librarian" by the National Library of Korea were surveyed. A focused analysis of CDRS in Korea shows not only a sharp increase in use by the public, but also much application in research and academic activities by university students and workers.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.44 no.2
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• pp.267-291
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• 2013

Academic research libraries are seeking a long-term preservation plan for journals for cost-effective stewardship. The emergence of shared print archives has given the library community the opportunity to resolve the problem of the lack of library storage and build a collaborative long-term archiving plan for the print journals. The purpose of this study is to examine Western Regional Storage Trust(WEST), the largest print journal archiving program in North America, and identify their strategies for building a distributed, retrospective print repository service for journals. Based on the analysis, this article will discuss the development of new trends of collaborative library management in a digital age.

• Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.55-66
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• 2020

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between collaborative information seeking and users' learning style preferences and their experience of information systems. The study investigates the role of four different factors including learning style, task complexity, and user experience in collaborative information seeking in digital environments. Sixty participants (30 pairs) were randomly chosen from volunteer graduate students of Kharazmi University (Iran). Participants completed Kolb's learning style questionnaire and a user experience questionnaire and then performed two information seeking tasks (one simple and one difficult) in a lab setting. They could exchange information with their partners or a librarian using Skype. The sessions were recorded using Camtasia. The results showed that with an increase in task difficulty, collaborative information seeking activities increased and more interactions with partners and the librarian occurred. The number of executive help-seeking requests was higher than the number of instrumental help-seeking requests. This research confirms that learning style is related to the way users interact with the digital library and help seeking. The research showed that in difficult tasks, the differences among users with different learning styles become more evident, and that generally interactions increase in more difficult tasks. Among the learning styles, the accommodating style had the highest number of relationships with collaborative information seeking variables. Most of the statistically significant relationships between users' prior computer experience and collaborative information seeking variables were related to the time variable.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.36 no.4
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• pp.329-347
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• 2005

Collaborative Digital Reference Service( CDRS) has spread worldwide as a tool of obtaining high-quality information in knowledge information society KISTI formed CDRS collaboration model called Question포인트+ with 4 institutions in Korea. In Question포인트+ which is also linked to the Global Network, the domestic and oversea information specialists answer a variety of questions in response of the requests of users on the web. The implementation of Question포인트+ is significant as the first domestic CDRS collaboration model, and contribute to management, dissemination, and activation of CDRS in Korea.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.50 no.3
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• pp.133-153
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• 2016

The objective of this study was to promote the use of collaborative digital reference service by identifying factors that affect user satisfaction and developing improvement measures based on the findings. Data were collected via a questionnaire administered to the users of the "Ask a Librarian" service and a survey to analyze the frequency and patterns of usage of the service. The survey analyzed the associations among subjects' demographic characteristics, information seeking patterns, factors that influence user recognition, service satisfaction, and follow-up intentions via responses to the questionnaire. Rapidity answers in factors of service satisfaction is found that the high impact of positive (+). According to the result of statistical analysis, the priority of service improvement strategies of digital reference service were suggested.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.169-186
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• 2003

Most of the university libraries in Korea provide digital reference service(DRS), but the use of DRS is very low. The low usage of DRS seems to result from the lack of subject librarians, of staff, of public relations, and of managers' enthusiastic attitude and understanding of DRS. It is difficult to solve these problems because of the poor circumstances in universities. The collaborative digital reference service(CDRS) is a solution to these problems. Not only CDRS costs little but also can provide reference services in many different subject areas. Though subject specialist librarian, user-friendly system interface, system programs and administrative supports are necessary to implement CDRS, the education and training of the subject specialist librarians is the most important work to be done in the university library situation in Korea.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.47 no.4
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• pp.69-91
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• 2016

The purposes of this article are to raise the quality issues of Collaborative Digital Reference Services(CDRS) in Korean libraries and to suggest the feasible solutions to resolve the quality problems of CDRS. To the end, a thorough examination on the development process and present condition of main Korean CDRS such as 'Question포인트' and' '사서에게 물어보세요'. This article investigates the causes of 'low quality' in Korean CDRS with emphasizing both technical problems and managerial limitations. Finally suggested are the solutions to improve the low quality of CDRS with special concerns on Korean library situation. Discussions on this article are based on literature review, statistical analysis, and usability tests on the targeted Korean CDRS, '사서에게 물어보세요'(Ask a Librarian in Korean version).