LG Sangnam Library Hye Yeon Hann

The Outlines Founded by LG Yonam Foundation after accepting the building of a private residence donated by Cha Kyung Goo, the honorary chairman of the LG Group. Opened its service as the first digital library service in Korea in Established for the purpose of making a great contribution to research and technological advancement in the field of Science & Technology. Consisting of three main services – LG ELIT, LG ScienceLand, and LG DTB Library. A Future-Oriented Library Leading Digital Library Services in Korea

History ▪ Opened its services ▪ Providing digitalized journals & proceedings on-line (1,680,000 articles) ▪ Changed its service and re-launching as the portal service, LG ELIT ▪ Became a repository of precious information in Science & Techonology ▪ Launched a meta search service ▪ Launched LG ScienceLand to entice the youth to take interests in Science. ▪ Providing a edutainment science portal service ▪ Launched the DTB Library as the world’s first ubiquitous library. ▪ Providing Web services, mobile phone services and telephone services for the print-disabled.

LG ELIT

ELIT = Electronic Library Information Tour ( Developed to fully support academic researches and progressive developments in Science & Technology The first “true” digital library service in Korea A special library for Science and Technology Registered as a public library service in private sector A Web-based public digital library specializing in Science and Technology.

Milestones ▪ Service Launching ▪ Digitalized journals & proceedings (1,680,000 articles) ▪ Delivering digital full texts on line ▪ Multimedia circulation ▪ Changed circumstances ▪ Revised Korean Copyright Law ▪ Opened a postal service for full texts ▪ Began collecting metadata ▪ Launched a meta search service ▪ Remodeled its Web site ▪ Diversified its contents ▪ Improved meta search ▪ Enhanced partnerships

Service Programs Research Information All in One Search Open Search Full Texts Search Holding Collection Search Subject-based Web DB Theses Donation for Sharing Movement Education Information Course Materials Academic Videos Science eBooks Subject Dictionaries Recommended Books Academic Web Resources Technology Trends Science News IT Trends Industry Trends World Trends Japanese Journal Report Science Video Clips Subsidiary Information Web Translation Subsidy Information Job Information Software Download Research Equipment Info. Membership Service My Page Full Text Postal Service Newsletter ELIT Café

Components ELIT Web Server ELIT Metadata DB Contents Providers Via Web DATA INPUT The Internet External Search Engines Users Journals/Proceedings Videos ELIT Holding Collection DB Postal Delivery Service Search Results Search Query

▪ To develop “only ELIT” unique contents ▪ To enhance partnerships with external contents providers. ▪ To offer impressive services and interfaces by adopting Web 2.0 ▪ To focus on core contents and optimize the service process. Beyond Challenges Goals ▪ The decrease in the portion of ELIT original contents ▪ The difficulties in controlling external contents ▪ The harsh competition with governmental agencies or commercial sites ▪ The variety of users’ needs ▪ The limitations of budget and human resources Challenges

LG ScienceLand

A Joyful Learning Space for the Youth Improving Scientific Minds and Creativity.  LG Science Land (  A Website for young children and teenagers designed to focus on the field of Science.  Fulfilling its goals to help the users find the fun in Science by integrating searching methods and creating user-oriented contents.  Recording consistently growth in its user group including over 103,537 total members and over 9,588 daily visiting users.

LG Scienceland was opened in July 1993 with 18 services. We won the ‘Korea Science Content Award’ Now we provide 21 services We began working with Yahoo Korea Milestones

Science Songs Scientific Motion Pictures Science Comics Essays & Games Flash songs explain Science with friendly sounds and cute images ▪ Scientific Motion Pictures ▪ Teachers for Exciting Science ▪ Science Magic Cartoons based on Science To enhance thinking power, we offer scientific stories Edutainment Contents

Science Photo Album ▪ posting photos about scientific observations, laboratory work or experiences Science Song UCC ▪ creating users video clips according to Science Song contents ▪ providing video editing tools on the Web site User Created Contents

Inquiry Program for Creativity ▪ Step-by-step instruction program based on flash programs ▪ The Korea National University of Education wrote out scenarios ▪ Consisting of 4 subjects – Physics, Biology, Earth science and Chemistry Inquiry Program

“LG Scienceland will be considered an interesting cyber Science Land that provides easy to access useful information and increases an individual’s ability to think.” Inquiry Program for Creativity Open Dictionary TEXT The Future

LG DTB Library

LG DTB Library = LG Digital Talking Book Library ( Launched on the 10 th anniversary of the LG Sangnam Library in order to expand the resources of information available to the disadvantaged. Developed to fully support the print-disabled in digital and ubiquitous environments. Enabling to listening to high-quality Digital Talking Book anytime anywhere. To realize the goals, actively adopting high technologies including RFID system and NFC-Bluetooth Communication. A Heartwarming Service Actively Utilizing Cutting-edge Technologies

Components ▪ Web Services ▪ Mobile Services ▪ Telephone Services

The actions order of connecting the web service ▪ step 1: A user connects a NFC-Bluetooth dongle to the computer ▪ step 2: and then equips a mobile phone with a NFC reader ▪ step 3: When the user touches the dongle with the mobile phone, ▪ step 4: the Library activates user identification and automatically opens the web site The first web menu ‘My library’ or ‘Member registration page’ After accessing the web page ▪ Searching books ▪ Listening to the talking books ▪ Downloading the books via their mobile phone The Web Service

NFC-Bluetooth dongle Mobile phone NFC Reader Personal Computer NFC for the user identification Bluetooth communication for the contents delivery NFC (Near Field Communication) ▪ is one type of short-range wireless communication (13.56MHz) ▪ transmits data within the operating distance of 10 cm at 424 kbps speeds with low electric power Bluetooth Communication ▪ transmits the contents wirelessly at speeds up to a maximum of 1Mbps within ten-meter radius The Web Service 2

connection with wireless networks Interface of the mobile phone LG DTB Library 1New Books 2Best Seller 3Recommended Books 4Book Search 5Information MenuOKPre Enter the book title cancelsearch Harry Potter Data receiving XX% cancel Animation Pre The mobile access using the mobile phone software ▪ Step 1: When a user pushes “OK” button in the middle of the keypad of a mobile phone, ▪ Step 2: the software for wireless communication runs immediately ▪ Step 3: The user searches books in connection with wireless Internet networks ▪ Step 4: and downloads the retrieved contents onto his or her mobile phone ▪ Step 5: The downloaded contents are text-file-formed DTB(Digital Talking Book) files ▪ Step 6: Then, a TTS (Text to Speech) engine embedded in the mobile phone plays the voice files Mobile Service

PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) T) IVR ( Interactive Voice Response ) Server The telephone service using the PSTN(Public Switched Telephon Network(PSTN) ▪ IVR(Interactive Voice Response) system and Voice XML-based voice identification solution ▪ Call the telephone service center at and users can search books after user identification according to the voice guide, and listen to the talking book The Telephone Sevice

LG DTB(Digital Talking Book) Library LG Sangnam Library The service management and contents production LG CNS The development of the ubiquitous library system on the Web LG Electronics The production of the mobile phone for the print-disabled LG Telecom The wireless Internet services LG Innotek The production of the NFC-Bluetooth dongle LG Dacom The telephone networks Services The 6 subsidiary companies of LG Group The Participants of the Project

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