National Diet Library Newsletter
|
No. 156, August 2007 |
between the National Diet Library
and the National Library of Korea
|
A National Library of Korea (NLK) delegation visited Japan from June 13 to 20, 2007, on the 11th mutual visit program between the NDL and the NLK. Since it started in 1997, the program has alternately taken place in Japan and in Korea every year. |
Headed
by Ms. Wee Sook Yeo, Director of the Information Technology Division,
this year's delegation had the following other members: Mr. Sung-Chul
Park of the Public Service Division, and Mr. Young Min Ko of the
Acquisition & Technical Processing Division.
The first
half of the program including the Opening Session and Session
I was held in the Tokyo Main Library of the NDL. The Kansai-kan (Kyoto)
also participated using the TV conference system. In the latter half,
Session II and the Closing Session were held in the Kansai-kan also
connected with Tokyo by TV conference.
June 14, 2007: Tokyo Main Library
| Opening Session |
| "Changes in the National
Library of Korea" by Ms. Wee Sook Yeo
(Director of the Information Technology Division, NLK) |
| "Current status of the National Diet Library, 2007: review of issues toward new development" by Mr. Hiroyuki Taya (Deputy Director General of the Administrative Department, NDL) |
In the
Opening Session, recent developments in the two libraries were
introduced. Ms. Yeo from the NLK reported in her keynote speech that
the NLK is in a phase of innovative change, having established a string
of new organizations since last year. She introduced the National
Library for Children and Young Adults, Small Library Promotion Team,
National Digital Library Planning TF, National Library
Support Center for the Disabled and Korea Research Institute for
Library
and Information. It was pointed out that the NLK is significantly
extending its territory as a library in order to promote the policy to
enable users of every social class to take advantage of information.
The
report
of Mr. Taya was about the NDL's current situation and
undertakings after the
innovation of organization, works and services since the establishment
of the International Library of Children's Literature (ILCL) in 2000.
He introduced Vision 2004, NDL's system for
informatization control, and plans for facilities improvement including
the Kansai-kan and the ILCL, and concluded that 2007 will be the
year
the NDL reviews issues and prepares for further development.
June 15, 2007: Tokyo Main Library
| Session
I: Acquisition, provision
and preservation
of digital information |
| "Acquisition of
digital information in the
National Library of Korea" by Mr. Young Min Ko (Acquisition &
Technical Processing Division, NLK) |
| "NDL Digital Archive Portal" by Ms. Satomi Kyuko (Digital Information Planning Office, Administrative Department, NDL) |
Mr. Ko
reported on NLK’s acquisition of digital information via legal
deposit, by purchase and by their own production. His report introduced
NLK’s activities such as purchase of commercial databases to provide
them to public libraries and development of original text databases
based on the library’s collection.
The report
from Japan was made by Ms. Kyuko, who introduced an outline
of PORTA, a portal currently under development by the NDL, explaining
its aim, function and future plans.
June 18, 2007: Kansai-kan
| Session II: Acquisition, provision and preservation of digital information |
| "Digital information
service and
preservation in the National Library of Korea" by Mr. Sung-Chul
Park (Public Service Division, NLK) |
| "NDL Digital Archiving System" by Mr.
Tsukasa Kimezawa (Digital Library Division, Kansai-kan of the NDL) |
With the
same theme as the previous session, reports and discussions
were continued in the Kansai-kan, to which the Digital Library Division
belongs.
Mr. Park’s
report was about NLK’s digital information services inside
the library and those offered via the
Internet by the national digital
library network, an outline of the draft law
on the deposit and
provision of digital materials which is being prepared, and acquisition
of online resources via OASIS (Online Archiving and Searching Internet
Sources) project.
Mr. Kimezawa
reported about the NDL Digital Archiving System, for which the NDL has
been developing to make it the core system for the acquisition,
provision and preservation of digital information.
In each
session, the NLK delegation and NDL staff members asked and
answered questions to learn more details of the projects and situation
in each other’s library and exchanged opinions.
| Visitsto the International Library of Children's Literature and other institutions |
On July 16,
the NLK delegation visited the International Library of
Children’s Literature (ILCL). The ILCL staff members provided them with
a library tour and both parties exchanged opinions and information on
various topics including responses to users’ demands such as an
extension of opening hours, and the role of a national library for
children’s literature in its relations with public libraries and other
institutions.
The
delegation also visited the National Institute of Informatics
(NII), the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) in Tokyo, and the
Library of Kyoto University in Kyoto.
June 19, 2007: Kansai-kan
| Talks with the Kansai-kan staff and the Closing Session |
The
delegation had working-level talks with the staff of the Digital
Library Division and the Library Support Division on topics such as the
development of the Digital Library from the Meiji Era (NDL), management
system of OASIS (NLK), collection and transmission of information
related to the library and information science.
In the
Closing Session, the reports and the discussions of the previous
sessions were wrapped up. Both parties appreciated this precious
opportunity to talk face to face about issues shared by national
libraries as well as strengthen friendship. The participants expressed
a hope for the further development of both libraries in mutual
cooperation.