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A Study of Developing the Ubiquitous Library for the Improvement of Information Accessability of the Blind

  • Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
  • Abbr : JKLISS
  • 2006, 37(2), pp.273~290
  • Publisher : Korean Library And Information Science Society
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Library and Information Science

Kyungjae Bae 1,  Kwak, Seung-Jin 2

1동덕여자대학교
2충남대학교

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ABSTRACT

Recently, a digital divide has gotten worse in the information age. So LG Sangnam library developed the ubiquitous library for the improvement of information accessability of the blind. It utilizes a mobile phone applied with NFC(Near Field Communication) technology and automates a user's identification process and serve library services at anytime from anywhere. Users can use three access points of a web service, a mobile service and a telephone library service. As a conclusion of this paper, Several recommendations were proposed. For the development of ubiquitous library, various instruments should be considered to diversify user's access points and a usability test and analysis about user's environmental context should be done simultaneously.

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