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The Collection of Jon Gyung Gak (존경각장서(尊經閣藏書)에 관한 일고찰(一考察))

  • Lee, Choon-Hee
    • Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.15-30
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    • 1972
  • Jon Gyunk Gak established in 1475 was the library of Sung Kyun Kwan which was the only university in the period of Yi Dynasty. For the study of library histories of Korea, particularly the libraries of high learning institutions the Jon Gyung Gak library acquires a greater importance. The collection of Jon Gyung Gak consisted mainly of Chinese classics such as the works of Confucius, Mencius, or the books about histories which were the textbooks of students in those days. But the books about Laoism or Buddhism were strictly forbiddened, and also books like medicine or agriculture pertaining to technical sciences were disregarded. The Jon Gyung Gak was destroyed by fire in 1514 and suffered severely again by the 1m Chin War in 1590's, but the library had been made constant efforts to maintain its collections for the performance of educational functions. This paper gives special emphasis to analyzing the collection of Jon Gyung Gak by its chronological order.

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Information Poverty of Minorities and Responsibilities of Libraries in Korean Society (소수자의 정보빈곤과 도서관의 책무)

  • Lee, Jae-Whoan
    • Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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    • v.50 no.4
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    • pp.1-31
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    • 2019
  • The purpose of this article is to find out both strategies and methods that Korean libraries could be reborn and recognized as an essential public good for the information poor. To the end, the first discussion is about the Korean society's intrinsic standpoints on social minorities and information poverty. And the second discussion is on how the Korean library community has approached and met with the information poverty issues of social minorities. Special concerns are on analysing the achievements and limitations of Korean library policies for social minorities. Also investigated are the indigenous factors that have impeded the further development of library services for the information poor. And finally this article requests for scholarly efforts to strengthen the theoretical basis of library policies for social minorities, together with strategic suggestions for Korean librarians who wish to renovate their specialized services for social minorities.

Evolving Roles and Requirements of Systems Librarianship in U.S.A.: Analyzing Trends in Job ads from 2006 to 2010 (시스템 사서(Systems Librarian)의 역할 분석을 통한 미국의 도서관 정보기술 동향 연구 - 2006년부터 2010년까지의 채용공고 분석을 중심으로 -)

  • Kim, Dong-Wan
    • Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.149-160
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    • 2010
  • In 1997, Lavagnino defined four stages of technology trends in libraries; but, he left a question about the fifth stage. Based on literature review, the following; Web technology, open source application, library consortia, digitization, wireless, and social media are the main trends in the fifth stage. Analyzing the job advertisements (ads) dating from 2006 to 2010 in systems librarianship, the analysis showed that there are three patterns. The first pattern is that the title of 'system librarian' is no longer specific to managing only the ILS at many libraries. The second pattern - network management skills - is not highly required in the job ads. And the last pattern - especially academic institutions which have archive or special collection departments - was looking for a systems librarian. In addition, Web technology has evolved as the most required skill according to the advertisements, as well as inter-personal skills in a team environment.

A study on decision making system in library management with an analysis on the case study of university library in Seoul (도서관경영에 있어서 의사결정시스템에 관한 연구)

  • Lee Woo Bum
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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    • v.20
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    • pp.163-222
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    • 1991
  • This dissertation are studying the conceptual structure of decision making situation in libraries, by analyzing the library function, decision makings of library and then seeking economic and efficient alternative decision making by programming the· decision making situations, and finally, introducing how to apply management information system or decision making support system. For this purpose, in order to analyzing necessary factors for the decision making system, the questionnaire used Lickert method were distributed to 400 librarians of 36 universities in Seoul by means of mail. 193 librarians, $48\%$ of the questionnaire, are returned are studied by using 'SYSTAT' statistical software to figure out the factors of the decision making system. This dissertation was put six hypotheses and tested with the returned questionnaire. The following five result can be asserted. First, to the higher degree of the librarians' participation in the important library decision makings, the quality of formal library services are improved regardless of seniority of the work. Secondly, the t-test results show that all of t-test scores of seniority of the work, educational background, and responsibilities of the work are exceeding significant level and perception of decision making was proved to be different depending on seniority of the work, educational background, and responsibilities of the work in libraries. Thirdly, as the results of factor af factor analysis, the encouragement on participation in the library academic activities, the extent to get useful information about performances of library and the improvements of library works were grouped by similar posibilities of distribution and therfore the academic activities, the collection of information and the improvement of library performances is proved to be interrelational each other. Fourthly, the fifth hypothesis of the close relationship between the decision making situation and types of advisor by it was more or less interrelational, but their relationship was not seen some significancies. Lastly, as the dynamic organization of library management forming a special commitee or a project team with librarian can improve the extent and quality of the librarian's participation in the decision making of library works, and thus library will become to performance more rational and effective library management.

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A Study of the Curriculum Courses of Library and Information Career Paths in Korea (사서직 진출분야별 전공교과목 운영방안에 관한 연구)

  • Ahn, In-Ja;Choi, Sang-Ki;Noh, Younghee;Kim, Ju-Sup
    • Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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    • v.43 no.4
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    • pp.373-402
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    • 2012
  • This would be a fundamental research to develop a curriculum for librarians based on their career paths, aiming to achieve a higher level of specialization in educational courses of library and information science in South Korea. The area of career paths is the public librarian, academic librarians and special librarians. In order to adopt the librarians' perspectives, the research analyzed the survey results of librarians regarding the practicability of courses in library and information science. The research also used the existing data on job analysis for different type of libraries for the analysis. In order to adopt educational perspectives, the research analyzed the curriculums for different career paths, which are presented in the websites of the 3 universities in Korea and 6 other oversea universities in the U.S.A and Canada. As the result, career paths for different type of libraries are suggested based on the analysis of the data.

Implementation of a unified live streaming based on HTML5 for an IP camera (IP 카메라를 위한 HTML5 기반 통합형 Live Streaming 구현)

  • Ryu, Hong-Nam;Yang, Gil-Jin;Kim, Jong-Hun;Choi, Byoung-Wook
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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    • v.28 no.9
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    • pp.99-104
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    • 2014
  • This paper presents a unified live-streaming method based on Hypertext Mark-up Language 5(HTML5) for an IP camera which is independent of browsers of clients and is implemented with open-source libraries. Currently, conventional security systems based on analog CCTV cameras are being modified to newer surveillance systems utilizing IP cameras. These cameras offer remote surveillance and monitoring regardless of the device being used at any time, from any location. However, this approach needs live-streaming protocols to be implemented in order to verify real-time video streams and surveillance is possible after installation of separate plug-ins or special software. Recently, live streaming is being conducted through HTML5 using two different standard protocols: HLS and DASH, that works with Apple and Android products respectively. This paper proposes a live-streaming approach that is linked on either of the two protocols which makes the system independent with the browser or OS. The client is possible to monitor real-time video streams without the need of any additional plug-ins. Moreover, by implementing open source libraries, development costs and time were economized. We verified usefulness of the proposed approach through mobile devices and extendability to other various applications of the system.

Development and Management of CDRS in Korean Library Community (한국 도서관계의 '협력형' 디지털참고서비스(CDRS): 문제점과 개선안)

  • Kim, Wang-Jong;Lee, Jae-Whoan
    • 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).

Yonsei Evolutionary Population Synthesis for Old Stellar Systems

  • Chung, Chul
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.37 no.1
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    • pp.31.2-31.2
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    • 2012
  • We present the Yonsei Evolutionary Population Synthesis (YEPS) models for spectroscopic and photometric evolutions of simple and composite stellar populations. The models are based on the most up-to-date Yonsei-Yale stellar evolutionary tracks and BaSel 3.1 flux libraries, and provide integrated spectroscopic quantities of Lick/IDS system including high-order Balmer absorption-lines. Special care has been taken to incorporate the systematic variation of horizontal branch (HB) morphology as functions of metallicity, age, alpha-element mixture, and helium abundance of simple stellar populations. Our models for normal-helium stellar populations indicate that the realistic modeling of HB and alpha-element brings about 5 Gyr and 0.1 dex differences in age and metallicity estimations, respectively, compared to those without these effects. The HB effect does not depend on the specific choice of stellar libraries and alpha-element enhancements, and this effect is non-negligible even in the metal sensitive absorption indices, such as Mg2 and Mg b. Comparison of the models to observations reveals that the HB and alpha-element effects are critical in understanding otherwise inexplicable phenomena found in globular cluster systems in the Milky Way and nearby galaxies, including the observed bimodality of the line strengths of globular clusters in massive galaxies. In addition, we found that helium-enhanced stellar populations, which are the major sources of extreme HB stars, bring about increased FUV, NUV fluxes, and thus the model colors of those filters become extremely blue. Age dating based on the YEPS model with normal-helium stellar populations reveals that the evidence for 'downsizing' of elliptical galaxies is found not only in the local field but also in Coma cluster, and that the mean age of elliptical galaxies in Coma cluster is about 1.4 Gyr younger than the mean age of those in the local field. We also find that our models with helium-enhanced subpopulations can naturally reproduce the strong UV-upturns observed in giant elliptical galaxies assuming an age similar to that of old GCs in the Milky Way.

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Evaluation and Requirement of Librarians on LIS Education (문헌정보학 교육에 대한 현장 사서의 평가와 요구)

  • Lee Jae-Whoan;Lee Ki-Myung;Kim Jung-Ho;Youn You-Ra;Lee Eun-Ju
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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    • v.39 no.4
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    • pp.45-69
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    • 2005
  • The purpose of this article lies in investigating the problems and limitations of the current LIS education in Korea with an emphasis on the viewpoints of librarians. Also identified are the librarians suggestions for a better LIS educational system, in particular, for the renovation of the current LIS curriculum to upgrade the competencies of future librarians. To this end, 347 librarians from public, academic, special, and school libraries were e-mail surveyed. And the collected data were analyzed and interpreted to find out the specific problems and suggestions based on the types of libraries as well as the overall problems and suggestions.

Meanings of Academic Library in Learning Activities of Korean College Students (대학생의 학습활동에 있어 도서관의 의미 - P대학도서관 이용자의 정보행태를 중심으로 -)

  • Lee, Eun-Ju;Lee, Jae-Whoan
    • Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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    • v.42 no.3
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    • pp.105-126
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    • 2011
  • The purpose of this research is to investigate the information behavior of Korean college students as related to their process of learning activities, and to provide the essential data for improving the service quality of Korean academic libraries. To the end, discussed in details are (1) classifying the everyday learning activities of college students into six types and finding out the special features of their information needs and seeking behavior, (2) figuring out the meanings and use-patterns of academic libraries in their everyday learning, and (3) developing the variables influencing their library use behavior and testing the relationship between such variables and library use behavior. The data were collected through a survey with 290 college students, and analyzed for both frequency test and Chi-square test for the discussion.