• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.48 no.4
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• pp.303-320
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• 2017

This study illustrates the process of the development of founding collection in public libraries. Specifically, this study surveys such cases of ten public libraries recently opened. It also analyzes current laws and standards about library collection and compares the criteria with the ones in various manuals and reports. For the study, supplementary data were also collected through qualitative interviews and brain-storming discussions with public librarians and other regional government officials who were in charge of the library construction project. For the suggestion to improve the quality of such founding collection, the researcher put the emphasis on the construction of collection development policy for the library, on the official collection plan, on the adequate volume of founding collection, and on the strategies for collection programs about regional studies.

• Journal of Information Management
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• v.38 no.4
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• pp.22-47
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• 2007

Most public libraries construct and operate their websites to provide the various user groups in local communities with internet access in Korea. But the representative public library's websites designed for children who are going to lead the next generation information based society, are unsatisfactory and don't reflect their approaches to information. The main factors of content and circumstance of usage are also extremely poor. Therefore, this research analyzed the construction of websites for children, their interface and design, search services, the contents of provincial representative public libraries amongst public libraries in korea and suggested improvement schemes.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.49 no.3
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• pp.291-309
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• 2015

The objective of this study is to illustrate the procedures, processes, and considerations of site selection for the construction plan of a new main library in a metropolitan city. The case to be discussed in this paper is the new library of Busan. As a regional main library supported by the law, the new main library can serve as a representative public library for the citizen, which will serve as a community center, an intellectual archive, and the policy hub for the regional information services. In this paper, the site selection strategy and specific evaluation methods for the new Busan central metropolitan library have been discussed. It also strived to illustrate elements to be considered for the planning of a regional central library as other cities and provinces may refer to for their own regional central library planning.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.44 no.4
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• pp.457-477
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• 2010

Currently, collections with public libraries are evaluated only on the basis of simple data, such as the use volume of collections with individual libraries, and interlibrary lending (ILL) results. To promote the ILL of regional libraries and raise the use of collections, however, the evaluation of collections should be expanded from individual libraries to regional libraries. This study aims to propose user-oriented methods for evaluating the library collections within a regional library system by using four kinds of data: collection, acquisition, circulation, and ILL application data. The results of this study show that the proposed method can reveal the positions of each library within a regional library system, and also the characteristics of a library's collections and users' needs more precisely.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.22 no.1 s.55
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• pp.145-166
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• 2005

In this study, various aspects of site selection for constructing new public library by development of urban community were investigated. These are legal aspects, geographical characteristics, and criteria of selecting conditions of location for new building. In order to select the suitable site in the Jeon Ju City, the various statistical data and indices with regard to information and cultural activities of the local residents and a statistical data was investigated. And also, a user question investigation was executed. The vision and objectives of establishing new pubic libraries were presented, based on the result of the study. The result of this study will help the library policy maker to develope the library policy and to secure a budget from the regional government.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.53 no.4
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• pp.267-292
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• 2022

This study is a basic study to establish a comprehensive plan for operating the Hanam Library, a regional base library that will be built in Gwangsan-gu, Gwangju Metropolitan City. We investigated opinions about the collection, library program, role and task of a regional base library and the operation of the cooperative shared storage. As a result of the study, the information resources that users prefer are a book form of the literary subject, and preferred library services are the use of information resources and participation in cultural events. Public library librarians answered conducting user-centered services and carrying out a cooperative projects between libraries are important and they recognized cooperative acquisition as a task should be performed first. In addition, opinions about the operation of cooperative shared storage is generally positive. The regional base library managers said that it is important to establish library governance by clarifying the status and role of the library and that as a public library, and to promote information services and cooperation projects for local users. The results of this study can be expected to be the useful basic material for the establishment of the Hanam Library comprehensive operation plan.

• Journal of Information Management
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.77-98
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• 2003

This study analyzes the overview of computerization process in Korean public libraries and reviews several problems of digital services through the library homepage. It is pointed out that digital service level is very high in technical quality, but the difference by regional groups in service quality is severe. This study emphasizes that a specialized resource development based on the regional feature be the survival strategy of digital service in public library at the age of internet.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.38 no.2
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• pp.75-94
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• 2004

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the administrative system and legislation of Canada's libraries with priority given to public library. Canada is a constitutional monarchy, a federal state and parliamentary democracy with 10 provinces and 3 territories and two systems of law(civil law and common law). There are about 1,045 public libraries in total and its governance and legislation is a provincial responsibility. For that reason. federal government did not legislate on public libraries and library act is the provincial public library statute authorizing the establishment and operation of public libraries and their management by boards. In Canada. each provincial library act provides for four types of public libraries : municipal libraries, regional libraries, districts libraries, and integrated public library systems.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.40 no.1
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• pp.115-132
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• 2009

Regional central library have to reflect the characteristics of the each region. And it must to set priority the various tasks. The purpose of this study is to investigate and analyze the librarian's recognition about roles of regional central library for support to the local libraries. As a result, librarians was recognized the direction of library policy and cooperation between the local libraries as the most urgent task. Also, librarians was considered the educational and cultural programs and interlibrary loan as the top task to perform in the future. The results is very useful in deciding contents of library cooperation and establishing of the Library Policy.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.47 no.3
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• pp.21-39
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• 2016

The objective of this study is to propose the operational organization and connective cooperation plan for the Daegu regional central library which will be completed in 2020. The vision of regional central library was presented as 'the library for the happiness of Daegu citizens and the cradle of knowledge and culture', and 10 core functions also proposed. In order to fulfill the roles as a regional central library, it has been suggested to maintain 5 departments including the department of administrative support, the department of library policy, the department of collection development, the department of information service, and the department of cooperative preservation. Lastly, it has also established the model of connective cooperation plans between other regional libraries and the regional central library as follows: the construction and operation of cooperative system, connective cooperation for the construction of Daegu collaborative repository, cooperative library system of ILL/DDS.