Old Map affect the country's diplomacy is a great article. This important document has restricted access in the past. However, the development of the Internet, the old map in the web site to users was approaching easy. Library provide users with easie...
Old Map affect the country's diplomacy is a great article. This important document has restricted access in the past. However, the development of the Internet, the old map in the web site to users was approaching easy. Library provide users with easier and more convenient access to and use of old map through their Internet websites. Now, library websites function not only as a tool of information provision or marketing, or as a gateway of Internet-based materials, but also as cyber space for all services of library, providing users with information and knowledge and direct accessibility to the services in the library.
At present, Korean library are proceeding with establishing websites or upgrading existing websites, and the use rates and reliability of web services by users are becoming higher.
However, although there have been various studies for the evaluation of general websites, few are found with regard to the evaluation of old map websites.
It is necessary for old map websites that provide information service to users of every stripe to make more efforts and have more interest in user-centered convenience, right to know, and information provision-centered service.
Accordingly, needless to say, it is necessary to study evaluation criteria of websites so that high quality old map websites can be established.
With this background, this study establishes evaluation criteria for old map websites, which are appropriate to their objectives and functions and directly evaluates library, presenting ways to establish and redevelop old map websites. More detailed purposes are as follows:
First, analyzes existing theories of evaluation through reviews on previous literature and elicits evaluation criteria for websites, which are appropriate to library;
Second, based on the elicited evaluation criteria for old map websites, examines the current state of domestic old map websites through analytic evaluation; and
Third, presents ways to improve old map websites that may be helpful in establishing or improving them in the future.
The expectancy effects of this study are as follows:
First, it will be helpful when one wishes to identify the current state of old map websites and to improve or redevelop existing websites, or to develop online service through website;
Second, it will function as a checklist when a developer who is to establish an old map website wishes to develop evaluation criteria; and
Third, it may be used as an inspection tool when an library contracts out the establishment of its website.
key words: library old map website, on-line service for old map in library, evaluating standards on-line service for old map of library, successful website design in library old map, library contents service.