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The National Assembly Library of Korea

digitizes its resources and collects digitalized resources

from external governmental and educational institutions online in full-text.

The purpose of the database is to enhance legislative information service

and to efficiently distribute information and knowledge to the citizens of Korea.

Through the software and hardware development and expansion,

the National Assembly Library of Korea consolidates its information service

capability in terms of stable, rapid, and convenient information circulation

and utilization.

1. Overview

1. Overview

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O Establishment of full-text database of collections

- Status: 1998 - 20004 (project value: approximately 22.8 billion won)

* 1998 – 2000 : Informatization Public Work Project (approximately 12.8 billion won)

* 2001- 2004 : Other project (approximately 10 billion won) 2005 Digital Library Full-text Database Project : approximately 2.15 billion won

2. Activities (By December 31, 2004)

2. Activities (By December 31, 2004)

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- Digital Library Collection (approximately 59,290,000 pages)

Database Full-Text (pages)

Master & Doctoral Theses 29,592,297

Monographs 12,673,340

Periodicals 11,576,503

Others 5,450,721

Total 59,291,861

▶ 46%, approximately 1.11million books of the total subject to be digitized books which are free from copyright, are digitalized

▶ Full-text database users: 3.1 million/year

2. Activities (By December 31, 2004)

2. Activities (By December 31, 2004)

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O Academic and Legislative information cooperation

- Cooperative agreements: with 582 institutions (began in 2000)

- Details

* Collecting digital files from 582 cooperative organizations including governmental and public institutions, local assemblies, and universities and provide on the National Assembly Digital Library full-text database service Promoting the partnership in the library informatization services by operating Academic Information Exchange Council

2. Activities (By December 31, 2004)

2. Activities (By December 31, 2004)

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O System development and Hardware extension

- Duration: 1998 – 2004

- Details

* Digital library system development and enlargement

* National Assembly Library Service Integrated Management System

development and enlargement

* Install more digital library related server and disk

2. Activities (By December 31, 2004)

2. Activities (By December 31, 2004)

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From ｢ Research on the usage of the major national information system ｣ by the Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs

○ To support the legislative activity by digitalizing the needed information

such as seminar materials, current issues, policy research for the

legislative process

○ To abridge the information gap and make easier access to the information

by sharing the digitalized information with universities, public libraries

and the National Assembly Library

○ To save the expenses by using the information from a distance

3. Evaluation of the Digital Library Project

3. Evaluation of the Digital Library Project

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○ To hold the largest collection of the full-text database in Korea,

make agreements with the largest number of organizations for cooperation,

have the biggest number in user's information usage

<Primary factor of the project>

o The National Assembly Library has the information-based system

which holds the high-qualified collection domestically

and internationally needed for the legislative activity including

the research reports and policy-related materials

as the largest information keeper and provider

3. Evaluation of the Digital Library Project

3. Evaluation of the Digital Library Project

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○ To provide the Virtual Reference Service on the internet

(The Project for establishing the Virtual Reference Room)

- To utilize the reference materials including the dictionary, encyclopedia,

statistics, white books, and etc through the internet

- To enhance the Digital Library system as the information provider

by adding the Virtual Reference Service

4. Future Goals

4. Future Goals

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○ Establishment of the Internet Information Resource Management System

- To collect the needed information for the legislative activity

and state-affairs inspection among the scattering information on line

and create them into the national bibliography in NAL.

- To establish the Legislative Information Portals in connect

with the legislative related sites to provide the information only

when they are not against the related laws (copyright law)

○ Execution of 「 Ask the Librarian 」 Service

- To set up a plan of the 「 Ask the Librarian 」 Service which the librarians

receive and answer the user's inquires on demands quickly and correctly

through the online

4. Future Goals

4. Future Goals

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○ To strengthen the support of the legislative activity

by providing the needed information for members efficiently

○ To keep the high-qualified integrated information services

by creating user-centered database

○ To expand the usage by making easier access to the information

○ To save the national budget for preventing the overlapped investment

○ To decreasing the information gap between the developed

and undeveloped areas

5. Anticipation

5. Anticipation

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□ Digital Library System function map

□ Digital Library System function map

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□ Digital Library System S/W map

□ Digital Library System S/W map

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□ Search□ Search

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* Types of full-text database

1) National Assembly Library Collection: Image, Tiff, PDF

2) URL-link resources: PDF

□ Search Result□ Search Result

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▶ 30 organizations holding periodicals

□ Collection belongs to external organizations□ Collection belongs to external organizations

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1) Issue ID from the National Assembly Digital Library System webmaster, Log-in at its homepage(www.nanet.go.kr)

2) Request ID by e-mail (nadlinfo@nanet.go.kr)

3) Required software: Image Viewer, Adobe Reader 6.0, Adobe Reader Plug-in

4) Other inquiries

Tel. 82-2-788-4147, 4150, 4250 Fax 82-2-788-4304

□ Using Digital Library System for Foreigners□ Using Digital Library System for Foreigners