• Journal of Information Management
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• v.39 no.1
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• pp.199-220
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• 2008

Most people choose Internet search engine first more than the library for their information search in these days. Many users do not know library homepage's content. How to improve the users in library homepage? This study aims to suggest the direction of library homepage service in Web 2.0. For this study the author analyzed library homepage that is introducing some representative Web 2.0 and other Web 2.0 sites. AJAX, RSS, Open API, MashUp, Wikis, Blog are the main technologies in Web 2.0. Those technologies become a tool that can do user centered library homepage. But, more important thing is information production that introduce to users. Web 2.0 suggests good information transfer for users. It needs to produce the information that stimulates the library user. It means that Web 2.0 give a good opportunity for libraries as an information production.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.39 no.4
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• pp.215-235
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• 2008

The purpose of this study aims to provide possible suggestions for the improvement of the literature classification number system as the search and browsing device on the library homepage. After analyzing and evaluating literature classification number system as the search and browsing device on the homepage of library adopting DDC, suggestions for the improvement were proposed. For the purpose of maximizing the effectiveness of literature classification number system as the browsing device, DDC third summary(the thousand section) which is suited to domestic circumstances was prepared.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.24
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• pp.413-448
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• 1996

Nowadays, the World Wide Web (WWW) has become an important resource of timely information for the information-related people such as information scientists, librarians, and students in Library and Information Sciences area. They are information professionals who navigate the information on the internet. Also, they need to be information providers who build a WWW homepage. This paper is a study of the necessity, preparation, and building WWW Homepage files for school of Library and Information Sciences in the age of competition among disciplines. It is particularly focused on the colleges and universities in Republic of Korea (ROK) and North America area. The purpose of this study is to provide various kinds of reference information to prepare a homepage in the future as utilizing information on the internet effectively. Even though a Web page was necessary for a school of Library and Information Sciences to show news, and introduce the purpose of the disciplines and the curriculum of the school, and the professors of a class etc., it was not well-prepared yet in ROK. However, a web page was used well enough and prosperous in North America area (Canada, the United States, and Puerto Rico) comparatively. Those web pages were analyzed and studied to prepare for a good designing of homepages for school of Library and Information Sciences in Korea and for the age of competition among disciplines in this paper. Suggestions for designing a good homepage and guidelines for preparing a best one were studied after both reviewing literature and utilizing experiences by the author who currently serves in the School of Library and Information Sciences in Keimyung University and builds homepage for the school. As a result, the major suggestions are ; premiered, and they are as follows: (1) English version of a homepage is necessary, (2) Provide a multimedia presentation about the nature of a school (3) Incorporate a place to let people make suggestions on the contents (of a homepage), (4) Bear in mind that potential users must be familiar with abbreviations you used, (5) Absolutely do not use abbreviations that may make the content more difficult to understand, (6) Add a feature on the every single page that will take the user back to the main page, (7) Use clear, short and well-structured sentences and remember to divide text into paragraphs, (8) Date with a creation or modification date in the homepage to indicate the updated date, (9) Being a multimedia environment, use colors effectively (the guidelines were also suggested), and (10) Put colleges' name into the title of bookmarks to find out them easily.

• Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.101-115
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• 2001

The library information service which uses a web is active. But users feel difficulty to use library homepage's content, because many content are accumulated in the library homepage very rapidly. So users want to be customized and personalized the various content which it provides from library home page. The MyLibrary is founded in customization and personalization of library's content. This MyLibrary is suitable for large library. But the MyLibrary can be used as the tool for digital reference service.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.39 no.3
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• pp.245-261
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• 2005

The purpose of this study is to provide directions for more effective and efficient service for library user by evaluating and analyzing library service access points on university library homepages. 69 national/public and private university libraries throughout the country are selected by stratified sampling method. The items used for evaluation are composed of 4 areas and 23 questions, and SPSS 12.0 is used for statistical analysis. The results are elicited through the hypothesis testing, and some suggestions are made for the effective university library homepage service.

• Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.239-259
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• 2006

The purpose of this study is to propose some strategic directions which can promote the government libraries to provide the most effective and efficient information services. The study analyzes user opinion and demand in terms of the Web-based Information Services. For the analysis, the questionnaires were distributed to the 300 users in 18 government libraries. In the results, the study finds that the government libraries with homepage need to advertise homepage service. to provide the training programs, and to improve the system utility for better valuable homepage services. The government libraries without homepage, first of all, must construct their own homepage reflected in the users demand requiring the powerful retrieval ability, the diversity of contents, the high properness of information services.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.141-157
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• 1998

The purpose of this study is to increase the effective utilization of library homepages by providing design guidelines. Seven of the library homepages are selected and have their menus of library homepages do share Each library homepage has it's own distinct characteristics, however the library homepages do share five common services : User Service. OPAC, CD-ROM Search, DB Search, Related Sites, Other Services. The result of this study can be used as the basic data for researching of library homepage's interface designs and collection development of electronic information.

• Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.47-64
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• 2009

The world has rapidly become culturally diverse, and Korea has gradually grown into a multicultural society, mainly due to marriage immigrants and foreign laborers, whose number exceeds over one million nationally. Their adjustment and acculturation in Korea, however, dose'nt seem painless and untroubled, and public libraries are in duty to provide multicultural service for these population. Providing useful services on the homepage makes it possible for users to find the information they need without having to visit the actual library. A more detailed research will be conducted by examining the multicultural services provided by the public libraries in Australia, Canada, the United States, and Japan, the leading multicultural societies. The further examination will be conducted on these libraries in terms of four aspects, that is, information, literacy, education, and culture, as declared by Public Library Menifesto. In Korea, translation and interpretation services, homework help, child literacy are necessary services at the public library, Management of independent multicultural site, shared services between Regional Central Library and Community Public Library, cooperation with libraries, government and organization will be helpful to multicultural library services.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.38 no.4
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• pp.49-65
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• 2004

University library user's needs and complains are delivered to librarians through the homepage BBS. The purpose of this study is to examine the user's needs and complains in BBS. Twelve domestic university libraries and three foreign university libraries are analyzed. And the result of this study will be useful for developing the library system for end users.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.36 no.2
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• pp.31-56
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• 2019

The user satisfaction and needs of an academic library were caught through a questionnaire survey in this study. The aim of this study is to draw up the CRM based plan for meeting user needs on the study. The users' demographic information, library resources & their use, homepage, services, and facilities/environment of the library were categorized in the questionnaire and analyzed for this study. The major conclusions of this study are: (1) The library resources use was the highest, and its facilities/environment was the lowest in the user satisfaction study. It also revealed that there are much necessities for the quick acquisition and dissemination of the requested material to the library users, and for the inter-library loan (ILL) services among campuses for the subscription books in the library resources use study, too; (2) There are a lot of necessities for the improvement of OPAC retrieval and the subscription books system, and menu rearrangement in the library homepage; (3) There are a lot of necessities for the plans of more frequent library event, more detailed event guidance, and more reinforcement of public relations such as SMS, push services of SDI etc. in the library user services; and (4) There are a lot of necessities for the improved policies to the complaints of library users such as the lack of common study place and lockers, air conditioning and heating problem, complaints about facilities management of restroom (lack of toilet paper), library accessibility on campus, unauthorized user management etc. in the facilities/environment of the library.