2011, Vol.22, No.1

Journal of the Korean Biblia Society for Library and Information Science 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.82

pISSN : 1229-2435 / eISSN : 2799-4767
https://journal.kci.go.kr/kbiblia

The expectation and the role for the university are rising due to the national competitiveness and change of environment in higher education in the knowledge based society, and the role to realize the effective lifelong study is also underlined in lifelong study society. And the social awareness is also diffused that the university should share the specialized substantial information resource with the community, and ensure the access right to knowledge and information to local inhabitant. Like this, the roll as an information center that the university can develop the local society as the component of the community according to the diffusion of lifelong study and the change of civic awareness. To check the open state of university libraries to community, this study surveyed and analyzed the open state of 4-year-course university libraries in Seoul and Gyoenggi region. On this base, this study emphasized that the university should open its libraries and positively offer the abundant specialized data of university libraries to the local residents. And this study suggested the way that the university libraries can cooperate connecting with the local public libraries and the school libraries as a positive service way of university libraries. Also this study accentuated that the university libraries should establish an open-door policy of its libraries and enlarge the service for the local residents by using the university conditions to maximum with the positive support of the university libraries of government and the university’s bureaucracy.

The present paper is focused on Korea’s inscribed heritages, digitization of the Tripitaka Koreana & miscellaneous buddhist scriptures, and public uses of the digital properties in order to describe the Digitization & Popularization of Printing Woodblocks of the Tripitaka Koreana and Miscellaneous Buddhist Scriptures, Memory of the World. The Goryeo Daejanggyeong or the Tripitaka Koreana and miscellaneous Buddhist sculptures refer to printing woodblocks of the Tripitaka(National Treasure No.32), and repositories (National Treasure No.52) where the woodblocks are stored. The woodblocks numbers 1,514 types/81,350 blocks/162,700 pages. Haein temple has worked the digital Tripitaka project 2009-2010 and The project for 2010 will focus on DB correction and modification, improvement of homepage that was made in 2009. For this, the focus was especially put on investigating current status and development plans of the digital Tripitaka project. In popularization of the digital Tripitaka, this study examined the Korea’s utilization policy and current situation of knowledge resources about culture, successful cases of digital Tripitaka projects, and popularization strategies. This research can contribute to digitization of other cultural heritages and related researches in the future.

Due to the growth of people’s use of the Internet as well as interests in health, people’s needs of health information have rapidly increased in public libraries. Nevertheless, there are few studies in Korea about users’ needs for health information and services that public libraries can offer to support these user groups. In the current study, a comprehensive literature review was conducted in order to understand the role of public libraries and librarians in serving users with health information and to identify the types of consumer health information(CHI) services available to users in public libraries. As for the CHI services that public libraries can offer for users, the current study emphasizes and discusses the directions and guidelines for improving the following six approaches: 1) CHI collection and information resource building, 2) CHI reference services, 3) CHI user education and training program development, 4) CHI services for minority/disability/cultural diversity groups of users, 5) CHI outreach program development, and 6) CHI network development with medical libraries, academic libraries, hospital, and medical institutions and associations. Although most of the discussion in the current study centers on cases and services provided in the United States or other countries, findings would be used to inform the importance of CHI services in public libraries, and to design and develop CHI services in Korea.