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Management Skills for Academic Libraries in the Digital Age (디지털시대 대학도서관의 경영기법에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Yong-Jae
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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    • v.36 no.4
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    • pp.293-309
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    • 2002
  • This study explores what kinds of strategies are appropriate or needed for the academic librarians to upgrade their skills in the digital age. Printed and electronic sources related to this topic are gathered and examined, and communication with some academic librarians in USA is used for this study. The skills suggested in this paper mostly come from business-oriented concepts ike Learning Organization, Knowledge Management, Team Management, Customer-Oriented Services, and Change Management. As a result of this study, it is found that these skills can be used without much difficulties in academic libraries to improve their services. However academic librarians need to keep in mind the core values of academic libraries as an academic forum and non-profit organization when they endeavor to provide better services for customers in the digital age.

The Impact of financial Sources on Service Delivery in Non-profit Social Welfare Organizations (민간 사회복지조직의 재원(財源)이 서비스 전달에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Young-Jong
    • Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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    • v.50
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    • pp.209-233
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    • 2002
  • This study is to identify the relationship in non-profit social welfare organizations(SWOs) between financial sources and service delivery. Especially the impact of the former to the latter is its main concern. For this purpose, gathered are the 1992, 1999 financial reports of those study organizations, and some qualitative data on a number of the organizations collected by the author is also used for verifying and interpreting the data. Gronbjerg's study(1992) provided an analytical tool for decomposing financial structure of human service organizations, and resource-dependency perspective was a theoretical framework for interpreting the impact of financial composition to service delivery. The findings are as follows: (1) Between 1992 and 1999, there was a noticeable change in financial composition among SWOs. Government subsidies has increased in terms of both amounts and percentages, for residential facilities 75% to 82% and for nonresidential facilities 37% to 47%. Funding from donations shows no abrupt changes, although absolute amounts were slight increasing. Fees were sharply decreasing, especially for the non-residential facilities which previously enjoyed them as valuable resources for preventing unnecessary influence from government. (2) The funding sources of SWOs and their strategies to acquire them has impact on service delivery. Although non-government fundings(donations and fees) were found to give elasticity to SWOs, various problems associated with acquiring them (i.e., changing the clientele) would prohibit SWOs from fully concentrating to those fundings. Meanwhile, government fundings are characterized as stable, and, as such, most of the SWOs prefers. Limited elasticity, red-tape, 'sacrifice of quality of service' over efficiency, etc. are referred to the problems.

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A Comparative Study on Death Orientation and Self-Esteem between Hospice Volunteer Experience and Hospice Volunteer Non-experience of Middle-Aged Women (중년여성의 호스피스 자원봉사 경험자와 비경험자의 죽음의식과 자아존중감 비교)

  • Park, Yeon-Suk;Lee, Sung-Ok;Hong, Seong-Ae
    • The Korean Journal of Health Service Management
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.35-44
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    • 2012
  • This study was carried out to identify how a middle-aged woman's consciousness of the death and self-esteem was affected by whether the hospice volunteer's experience exist or not. As a form of descriptive research, this study, which is based on a structured questionnaire intended for the 191 middle aged women doing volunteer work at the non-profit women's organization, had been conducted twice from May 10, 2010, to May 21, 2010. The results of my research work is followed ; First, a middle-aged woman's consciousness of the death and self-esteem showed significant differences depending on whether the hospice volunteer's experience exist or not. Experienced hospice volunteer group showed a lower consciousness of the death and a higher self-esteem compared to non-experienced hospice volunteer group's case. Second, in case that the results show a high self-esteem, the consciousness of death reach at the low stage. Especially, the experienced hospice volunteer group showed an opposite correlation compared to non-experienced group. Third, Anyone's consciousness of death appeared at a low level when she had a religion and higher education background. Anyone's self-esteem oriented sense appeared at low level when she didn't have religion but rather appeared at high level when the health status of the targeted group was in a good shape. As a result, the hospice volunteer activities can be assumed to increase the middle-aged woman's self-esteem, therefore, turn the consciousness of death into a positive attitude.

Developments in Space Law in regulating commercial space activities (우주(宇宙) 상업활동(商業活動) 규율(規律)에 있어서의 우주법(宇宙法)의 발전적(發展的) 위상(位相))

  • Shin, Hong-Kyun
    • The Korean Journal of Air & Space Law and Policy
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    • v.3
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    • pp.233-258
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    • 1991
  • This paper examines current developing status of space law as defined in terms of its unique principle that "the utilization of outer space for all mankind's interest". As commercialization of space activities has brought about heated debate on its legitimacy with respect to that principle, space law has come to witness a dual situation. One is the realization of that principle in establishing commercial space activities system where all mankind's interest is respected through the non-discriminatory distribution mode of space benefit. In satellite telecommunication system, the INTELSAT Organization assures its public service policy while protecting itself against a competition from separate systems. For remote sensing, commercialization of LANDSAT Systems promoted since 1984 seems not to affect present non-discriminatory distribution of data and information obtained. On the other hand, active participation of private entity aiming at commercial profit enables national government to manage more effective control and supervision of those activities with a view to promoting national interests. Also, newly developed private rules and regulations are emerging in business relations about commercial space activities. Extended capacity of national government assuring its national interest in production and distribution of international resources that is outer space, and regulation of space activities by newly developed rules and customs provoke a concern about a identity problem of space law. The best way to summarize this perspective might consist in saying that non space law regulations, which are not assumed as aiming at the promotion of all mankind's interest, are confirming their role about space related activities. For those reasous, we are now facing a developing status of space law as developments of commercial space activities continues.

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The Actual Situation and Development Strategies for Community Based NGO Movement (지역사회 시민운동단체(NGO)의 실태와 발전방안)

  • Suh, Gyu-Sun;Kim, Sung-Soo
    • Journal of Agricultural Extension & Community Development
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.343-358
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    • 2004
  • The purposes of this study were to draw out the situational problems of the community based NGO (Non Governmental Organization) movement and to suggest development strategies for NGO movement in Korea. The study was conducted through extensive review of literature and analysis of the related data. The major findings of this study were as follows; As the development of democracy and localization process were in progress, the community based NGO movement was also developing quantitatively, however not yet qualitatively. The NGO Times Net, a internet newspaper for NGOs revealed that the number of community based NGO was 3,397 as in 2004, which was 5 times larger than 597 central based or Seoul located NGOs. However, some of the problems identified were lower participation of local people, quality of the movement compare to the original purposes of the movement, and the problems in local leadership, etc. In order to overcome various problems, this study suggested some strategies for development such as enhancement of civil education, expansion of voluntary spirits, financial support for NGOs, better mutual understanding among the GOs (Government Organizations), POs(Profit Organizations) and NGOs. Self evaluation and innovative strategies will be needed for further development of NGO movement in Korea.

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Analysis of Korean workers' working hours (대한민국 근로자의 근로시간 분석연구)

  • Baik, Jai wook
    • Industry Promotion Research
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    • v.5 no.3
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 2020
  • The purpose of this study is to analyze the working hours of Korean workers in terms of occupation, employment contract period, employment type, final education level based on the first(2006), second(2010), third(2011), fourth(2014) Korean Working Conditions Survey(KWCS) results. Also KWCS was compared to European Working Conditions Survey(EWCS). It is found that weekly working hours were decreasing over the years since mid 2000 but weekly working hours of Korean were still longer than those of Europeans. It is also found that service workers and sales workers worked longer hours than specialists, that private sector worked longer hours than public and non-profit organization, and that the less educated worked longer hours than the more educated.

Economic Analyses of a Korean University's Internal Labor Market and Related Policy Issues -The Case of the 'M' University- (대학 내부노동시장의 경제 분석과 정책 대응 - 'M' 대학의 사례 -)

  • Cho, Woo-Hyun
    • Journal of Labour Economics
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    • v.33 no.1
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    • pp.31-52
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    • 2010
  • Internal labor market in a firm is normally designed to solve the adverse-selection problem as well as the moral hazard problem in the world of information asymmetry. The internal labor market of a Korean university as a non-profit organization should have the same function as the firm. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the economic performances of a university's internal labor market, using confidential data. And I suggest how to improve the performances of a Korean university's interal labor market. Specifically, I suggest incentive pay for university professors. I also suggest eight job classification and job-related pay system for staffs and secretaries to enhance the efficiency of the university's internal labor market.

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The welfare service of public libraries for aged persons (공공도서관의 노인 복지 봉사를 위한 연구)

  • 이진영
    • Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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    • v.27
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    • pp.245-269
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    • 1997
  • This study is a primary research aimed at the information service of public libraries for aged persons who are increasing in our society. In the year 2000, the total population of the world is expected to be up to sixty one hundred millions and the aged population over the age of 65 is also expected to be about 14.3 percent. The population of Korea will be twenty third(23) in its number throughout the world and the population of aged persons is expected to increase to 7 percent according to the United Nation. The service of public libraries should enhance the quality of each individual life and contribute to communities in the conviction of service. The social welfare of aged person is, in a way, to transfer the responsibilities of taking care of aged persons from the family to society. When we plan, consider and offer the equal rights and o n.0, pportunities for them to access to public libraries, then the service of public libraries will be a momentum for the reformation of our society. The public libraries should develop a section for the aged persons as a non-profit organization and further should provide some communication skills, specific a n.0, pparatus for poor eye sight, and some financial su n.0, pport for them.

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The Research about Policy Background of Computer Science Education in UK School: Lesson from the UK (영국의 컴퓨터과학 교육의 정책적 배경에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Hongrae
    • Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.207-218
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    • 2016
  • This paper have been knowing about policy background about Computer Science Education in UK. Every schools in UK have been teaching Computing as a subject matter from september, 2014. Department of Education in UK had replacement ICT to Computing subject. The institute have accepted that problems about ICT subject which school teacher recognised and the needs of academic sector, and the entrepreneur's needs for talented person of 21st century. We have known that Computing at School(CAS) had started grass root organization, which had been trying to changing the computer science curriculum. In the processes, it was corporation very closely among organizations, such as government, universities, entrepreneurs, awarding bodies for evaluation, and non-profit initiatives. Through this research, we have get some lessons for advancing of software education in South Korea.

Patterns of Citing Korean DOI Journals According to CrossRef's Cited-by Linking and a Local Journal Citation Database

  • Seo, Tae-Sul;Jung, Eun-Gyeong;Kim, Hwanmin
    • Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice
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    • v.1 no.2
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    • pp.58-68
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    • 2013
  • Citing literature is a very important activity for scholars in writing articles. Many publishers and libraries build citation databases and provide citation reports on scholarly journals. Cited-by linking is a service representing what an article cites and how many times it cites a specific article within a journal database. Recently, information services based on DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers) have been increasing in number. CrossRef, a non-profit organization for the DOI registration agency, maintains the DOI system and provides the cited-by linking service. Recently, the number of Korean journals adopting DOI is also rapidly increasing. The Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) supports Korean learned societies in DOI related activities in collaboration with CrossRef. This study analyzes cited patterns of Korean DOI journal articles using CrossRef's cited-by linking data and a Korean journal citation database. This analysis has been performed in terms of publication country and the language of journals citing Korean journal articles. The results show that DOI, SCI(E) (Science Citation Index (Expanded)), and English journals are more likely to be cited internationally.