2008, Vol.39, No.4

Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 1.02

pISSN : 2466-2542
https://journal.kci.go.kr/liss

The purpose of this article is to identify the problems that Korean library and information policies (LIP) are facing with and to suggest its future direction for advancement. To the end, discussions include both progress and problems related to legal provision, government organization, administrative staff, professionals, finance, and master plans. Based on a thorough literature survey, this article begins from an analysis on the conceptual definitions of ‘library and information policies,' explains the problems and limitations of Korean LIPs before 2006(the year when new ‘library act' was established), and introduces major changes in Korean LIPs after 2006. Finally suggested are both strategies and methods to resolve the problems and limitations that Korean LIPs are facing with.

This study analyzes articles reported on university newspapers and figures out what roles they played in those days and how they have changed up to now. For this, it selected newspapers issued at P university for the last 60 years and examined and analyzed every article related to university libraries in them. As a result, it is found that the contents of the articles have been changed dramatically as time goes by. The study result is expected to be used as foundational data for the operation of university libraries or their long-term development projects as we reflect ourselves rationally and face reality and establish desirable future-oriented library features.

This study tired to develop the web credibility evaluation model by calculating weighted values and sensitivities of indicators which presented on preceding researches using Analytic Hierarchy Process. “Expert Choice 2000" was used as the tool for analysing AHP. 25 experts are answered for this questionnaire who are selected by judgement sampling method, one of the non-probability sampling method. Also, sensitivity analyses was performed to graphically see how the alternatives change with respect to the importance of the indicators or sub-indicators. The main results are summarized as followings; i) importance analysis in first level factors: trust-worthiness(0.606), expertness(0.222), safety(0.173), ii) importance analysis in second level factors: trustfulness (0.519), reputation(0.087), usefulness(0.102), timeliness(0.093), competency(0.027), security(0.115), reliability(0.058). iii) some of the importance analysis in third level factors: the site provides comprehensive information that is attributed to a specific source(0.252), the site has articles that list citations and references(0.153), the site contains user opinions and reviews(0.072), etc. iv) sensitivity analyses showed that the importance of the indicators or sub-indicators are slightly changed with respect to the alternatives change.