 Annual Events
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Feb |
General Meeting & Workshop |
Mar |
Education Program: Basic Course |
May |
Staff Workshop (Summer) |
Jun |
Academic Seminar |
Aug |
Education Program: Annual Course |
Sep |
National Library Conference: KSLA Session |
Nov |
Staff Workshop (Winter) |
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 Mission |
KSLA was established with the purpose of information
exchange, knowledge sharing, and job training of
member libraries for the promotion of librarianship and
the advancement of special libraries. |
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 Overview
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Name |
Korea Special Library Association |
President |
Mu-Suk Oh (msoh@kisdi.re.kr) |
Homepage |
http://ksla.info |
Address |
National Library of Korea, Sejong 3F
48, Dasom 3-ro, Sejong-si
30120, Republic of Korea
Phone : +82-44-866-4496
E-mail : ksla@ksla.info |
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 History
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1972 |
STIMA was established
※ Special libraries for science and technology |
1989 |
KIRSA was established
※ Special libraries for social sciences and humanities |
1998 |
Union DB was built and ILL service was started |
2009 |
STIMA and KIRSA were merged into KSLA |
The fi rst issue of "KSLA Bulletin" was published |
2011 |
Representatives were dispatched to the ICoASL 2011 |
"Special Libraries Handbook" was published |
2012 |
"Collection of Best Practices" was published |
2013 |
Representatives were dispatched to JSLA Meeting |
2014 |
JSLA Representatives were invited to KSLA Meeting |
2015 |
ICoASL 2015 was held in Seoul, Kore |
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 Members
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Membership |
Regular Members |
Special Members |
Life Members |
Number |
123 |
41 |
2 |
1) Regular Members : Government institutes, Companies, Universities, etc.
2) Special Members : Publishers, Resellers, etc.
3) Life Members : Retired Persons
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 Organization |
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 Activities |
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Resource Sharing |
KSLA is collecting each member library's MARC data to
construct a union DB and libraries are sharing resources
through DDS as well as ILL services. |
Education Program |
Basic Course is aimed at the new librarians for the
acquisition of knowledge including special library's
characteristics, librarian's calibre, major issues, related
new technologies, establishment story of a new special
library, best winner's successful story in national library
evaluation, etc.
Advanced Course is aimed at the senior librarians
so that they can expand library activities as well as
strengthen professionalism. There are 2 courses for
science and technology and social sciences which are
open to librarians in all types of libraries in cooperation
with the National Library of Korea.
Annual Course is aimed at the fi eld librarians to share
information about current topics and each library's
solution.
Commissioned Course is a customized course based
on each institute's request for the training of SCI
research paper writing, research ethics and research
notes, utilization of patent information, etc. |
Mentoring Service |
Mentoring services are provided to improve each
librarian's capability by sharing advanced experiences
and expanding knowledge between mentor and
mentee among KSLA member libraries. |
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