• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.46 no.3
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• pp.51-70
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• 2015

The objective of this study is to present the organization and management plan for the new main library in Busan metropolitan city. The characteristics of the Busan Library was defined as follows: stronghold library of Busan, policy and research library, and research hub for Busan studies. The five core functions of the library are to be library policy making, support and collaboration, preservation, information services, and administrative support. In order to fulfill the duties and the roles of the library, it has been suggested to maintain 4 departments along with 1 team including the department of library policy, the department of support and collaboration, the department of information services, the department of administrative support, and the preservation team. It has also been suggested to secure proper number of personnel including 43 staff members for the opening of the library, which consist of 10 administrative staff, 31 librarians and 2 computer specialists. The annual operating budget has been estimated to 4.33 billion won including labor cost (1.53 billion won), acquisitions (.735 billion won) and, other operating cost (2.13 billion won).

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.49 no.3
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• pp.383-406
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• 2018

The purpose of this study is to understand and analyse the community information services in Korean public libraries. Regarding this matter, this study first extensively analysed terms related to community information services and clearly defined the meaning of community information services. Second, this study investigated the current status of community information services in the public library. Finally, this study suggested the directions of community information services. In this study, literature studies and case studies were conducted, and the case to be discussed is online service of regional central libraries in Korea.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.50 no.3
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• pp.117-138
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• 2019

The purpose of this study is to analyse the characteristics and limitations of community information services and to explore an activation strategies. Included in this study are as follows: (1) investigate what is an appropriate representative term through the history of terminology related to community information services, (2) examine how community information services are operated in the regional central libraries from the librarian's perspective, (3) suggest the directions of community information services. The data were collected literature studies and interview with 20 librarians in regional central libraries.