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Monday, August 14, 2006

The library tours begin...


We have toured several libraries over the past few days and have learned a lot about Korea’s commitment to preserving their historical resources and providing high quality library service to the country’s students, researchers and scholars.

Many of the libraries we have visited are using the countries most valuable resource – the Korean peoples’ strong work ethic and their advanced technology to gather and make available historical, cultural, and scholarly documents.

Fantastic digital library projects are being developed in many of the libraries we visited.

The National Library of Korea (http://www.nl.go.kr)
The National Library of Korea is the representative library in Korea. It opened in 1945 and it maintains 5,906,632 publications. During our visit we had the opportunity to meet the Chief Executive of the National Library of Korea, Mr. Kwon Kyung Sang as well as the Director of Library Services, Ms. Chi-Ju Lee. Ms. Lee gave us a brief overview of the history of the library and shared with us her trailblazing efforts in the development of the KOLIS -Korean Library and Information System as well as her involvement in their very successful digitalization project.

National Assembly Library (http://www.nanet.go.kr/english/)
The National Assembly Library (NAL) which opened in 1952, serves the members of the National Assembly as well as the general public. Some of the services provided are:
Legislative Information Services
Legislative Reference Question & Answer Service
Legislative Knowledge Database
Foreign Information Research and Translation
Policy Chronicle Information Service
Internet Resources Service
Foreign Law Information Service
Reference Database
Since 1998, the National Assembly Library has been involved in the digitalization of its collection. The NAL Digital Library provides catalog, abstract and full text information on-line.

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