• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.30 no.3
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• pp.89-109
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• 2013

The study analyzes mission statements of Library and Information Science schools in the United States. It aims to reveal identities of LIS by Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). The study examines the strategies or stereotypes of academic mission statements in LIS as a genre. Mission statements are analyzed using discourse analysis to find common ideology using agency, modality, and lexical analysis. A comparative analysis of two mission statements is also conducted within discursive practices to reveal characteristics of two schools. This study has value in that it provides implications for other ideological discussions applicable to LIS.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.35 no.3
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• pp.205-227
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• 2004

The purpose of this study is to propose the appropriate strategies for establishing the mission and roles of National Central Library. For this purpose, examined are the following aspects: (1) how and by whom the mission and roles of National Central Library have been defined, and what are included; (2) what are the missions and roles taken by its counterparts in other developed countries, and recommended by international organizations; and (3) how National Central Library, as the center of national information resources, can be further committed and developed to be the key institution in the knowledge-information society, by re-evaluating and establishing its roles and mission.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.16 no.12
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• pp.71-76
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• 2018

The purpose of this study is to suggest ways to improve development plan of the National Library of Korea, comparing development plan of the Library and strategic plans of national libraries in western countries, China and Japan. For this purpose, plans of national libraries in Korea and Overseas were collected and analyzed. And a rubric evaluation was applied to the case plans. The findings indicate that plan of the National Library of Korea is written for analyzing present problems, setting practical activity-centered detailed plans. On the other hand, plans of national libraries overseas present distinct mission and vision statement, and set up goals, objectives, concrete activities in the framework, which function as milestones for developing libraries. As a conclusion, this study suggests that the National Library of Korea need mission and vision statement, links among mission, vision, goals, objectives, activities, and ongoing library marketing. This study can contribute for the National Library of Korea to develop plan with the concept of strategic plan.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.28
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• pp.3-21
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• 1995

The library as nonprofit organization is required to have micro-planning for the organization itself and macro-planning for the relationship of the organization and its environment. Both the micro and macro planning are rational and effective means to library objectives. The library planning must be based on clearly formulated objectives that will encourage all parts of the organization to work toward the same goal and mission. The planning to library objectives should make programming. which should make processing. The mission here should precede goal. which should precede objectives and objectives should precede activities in planning. There is an integral relationship among them. Just as the objectives of the library may be thought of in a hierarchy such as the above. so the library planning must be based on such a hierarchy from strategic or long range planning to administrative planning, from administrative planning to operational planning or short range ones.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.42 no.2
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• pp.5-28
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• 2011

The ultimate mission of the university library is to provide the various information services in support of the teaching, research, and public service missions of the university. The achievement of the mission requires the optimal development and timely revision of university library standard that can be used as an operating guidelines and assessment tools. On the basis of this justification, this study has compared the trend and feature of library standards in major countries(USA, Canada, UK, Japan, Taiwan), analysed the problems and limitations of legal and recommended standards in Korea, and suggested the revised plan of Korean university library standard focusing on collections, staffs, and facilities.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.45 no.3
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• pp.441-462
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• 2014

The purpose of this study is to analyze the concept of information commons and learning commons that has emerged in recent years, and point out the difference between the two concepts, as well as its implications for public libraries, which get lessons learned from learning commons at Japanese public libraries. To track its evolution to learning commons, the theoretical component of learning commons was analyzed. Based on the reference, a research framework for the case study of learning commons was developed. With IT technology diffusion, libraries have become information commons. However, the main mission of libraries should basically remain as learning. Because of this, libraries which function as information commons should go back to being learning commons, which are primarily places of learning. This research shows that libraries should stress its original basic mission which is learning, beyond being information commons in the Japanese library.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.40 no.1
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• pp.47-71
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• 2009

The mission of public library is to contribute to local society's growth and improve local residents' quality of life by satisfying local residents' desire on information use, cultural activities, lifelong education, etc, and providing more convenient and equal access. This study is a research that deducted BSC-based public library performance indicator model composed of 12 critical success factors, 36 key performance indicators under four perspectives of learning and growth perspective, internal process perspective, resources perspective, and user perspective, estimated relative weights of deducted the performance indicator model on librarians of public libraries to analyze what performance indicator is important for accomplishing public library's mission and promoting performance.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.45 no.2
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• pp.73-92
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• 2014

A school library manifesto means the policies and rules on school libraries and includes the direction which they should follow and the criteria which school libraries should keep. Compared the school library manifestos of IFLA/UNESCO, IASL with that of Japan, the school library manifestos of IFLA/UNESCO are constituted with mission of the school library, funding legislation and networks, goal of the school library, staff, operation and management, implementing manifesto etc. and underline funding legislation and networks. The IASL policy statement on school libraries includes functions, materials, facilities, personnel, lifelong education, skills, literacy development, government and public support etc. and emphasizes lifelong education, skills, literacy development. The school library manifesto of Japan includes philosophy, functions, staff, material, facilities and management etc. and highlights philosophy. As a result of comparison and analysis of the school library manifestos of IFLA/UNESCO, IASL and Japan with that of Korea, the school library manifesto of Korea needs to comprise mission, facilities, staff, lifelong education, skills, literacy development, funding legislation, operation and management, government responsibility for implementing the manifesto, etc. by accepting the components in the manifestos of advanced countries, stressing the educational roles of school libraries and by separating the educational area from others.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.37 no.4
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• pp.351-370
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• 2006

The goal of this study was to evaluate vision, mission, strategies, and action plans from the long-term development plan for the B University's library, and specificity, measurability, achievability, relevance, and time-frame were measured and evaluated for each with SMART method. The results obtained through this study are as below : Firstly, SMART evaluation result for the B University's library was 3.80 for the vision, 3.97 for the mission, 3.74 for strategies, and 3.64 for action plans. Secondly, specificity of the long-term development plan for the B University's library was 4.06, measurability was 3.72, achievability was 3.68, relevance was 3.90, and time-frame was 3.58. Thirdly, the overall evaluation of the long-term development plan for the B University's library showed that among components from the development plan, the mission was the most superior while action plans had problems. Fourthly, in SMART evaluation factors, specificity was the most superior while time-frame had problems such that it should be supplemented in the future.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.39 no.4
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• pp.71-98
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• 2005

Recently, the speed of changes surrounding university libraries requires a hybrid library environment that supports integrated services, combining a virtual space with physical space of traditional libraries. Through changes, university libraries have faced the need to review their missions and visions, laying stress on the core values of university libraries. This study analyzed the central keywords in the contents of mission and vision statements of university libraries in America, England, Canada, and Australia. The research was acquired from mission and vision statements containing core values of developed university libraries. Core values are present in each area such as correction and information resources, services, place, people, environment and infrastructure, community, and parent-university relations. Ultimately, this study tried to provide the directions and the basic materials for the establishment of missions and visions for university libraries in Korea.