For the importance of knowledge and information in modern society is brought up to its prime concern, growth on Internet and information technology are changing the way of libraries to participate in providing valuable information significantly. One o...
For the importance of knowledge and information in modern society is brought up to its prime concern, growth on Internet and information technology are changing the way of libraries to participate in providing valuable information significantly. One of the most significant changes in library services through the change would be providing residing contents of information collections through World-Wide-Web Internet service. Many Children & Young Adults libraries have accumulated volumes of information and these information is being offered as various forms of services.
To bring and accomodate Children & Young Adults who are, in recent years, used to commercial portal search engine and their demand Out of any other concerns, the pivotal point in developing portal site with merits that amplify library's strength in qualities, such as capacitated excellent quality information resources and its superb structural organizing ability result in bringing the user's usability to higher level is very important.
To achieve above perspectives, this study has grasped the features and roles of library portal through research and analyze of reference instances. Also, to apply as a primal reference for more efficient modeling of Children & Young Adults library portal, analyze on 32, currently running, Children & Young Adults web site has been done with followings in mind - content service, user service, form of service. With the basis of the analysis result, point of improvements and its functional matter as a library portal, I have planed Children & Young Adults library portal service model including Digital Contents Service, Search Service, User Service, Library Service.
I suggest following to Children & Young Adults library portal model plan with the result of this study.
First, Children & Young Adults library portal service should be able to offer resolution to confronted learning difficulties, persuasion of advance knowledge and creation of new knowledge.
Second, Children & Young Adults library portal service should contribute to create suitable reading environment and reinforce reading education and to improve in taking lessons, method of study, healthy Children & Young Adults leisure cultivation and improvement in information applicability through providing surroundings that variety of informations are available promptly.
Third, Managing officer of Children & Young Adults library portal service should construct digital information resources, provide convenient and approachable information surrounding and provide environment as efficient as possible to resolve information required difficulties and studies.
Fourth, It has to be planed out as a integrated information field with help of various scopes of content providers rather than as a individual amplitude, bring up its interoperability through adopting essential technologies that can be accepted internationally as standards and develop services more throughly focused on user's point of view.
Fifth, above suggestions made by this study should be able to content the information hunger Children & Young Adults and also expected to apply as a primal reference material for librarians to plan out Children & Young Adults portal model. To achieve this, suggested portal service model needs to be more specifically constructed with detailed policy and functional factors, furthermore, systematically phased development study approach such as sample site constructions to eliminate errors by practical trials.