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Institutional repositories (IR) were initiated in recent years in recognition of the need for an alternative method of publishing and knowledge dissemination. The debate continues on whether articles in open access (OA) actually create more discovery, and citations on those articles. However in the discussion that follows, this appears to be yesterday’s battlefield. Proponents of IRs now find that by aligning the goals of the IR with those of the underlying institution, there is no more battle to be fought. At HKU, the Senior Management Team has recently re-articulated the institution’s mission and vision statements, to focus on three themes; 1) Teaching & Learning, 2) Research, and 3) Knowledge Exchange (KE). The HKU definition of KE includes the act of making HKU generated knowledge and skill sets accessible to business, government and the community.

The IR at HKU, the HKU Scholars Hub, is now well positioned to support these three areas, as well as measure quantitatively and qualitatively, how much work is done in these areas. The Hub collects and provides OA on teaching & learning objects, and the published & grey literature. It provides metrics on downloads, and imports citation counts from Scopus and Web of Science. It provides these metrics by article or object, and cumulates for each author. The Hub was recently enhanced to show “HKU Author Pages” with these metrics for each author, as well as fields to show in which areas an author can undertake contract research, in which areas an author can act as a spokesperson to the media, etc. With these re-articulated three themes, and the recent enhancements to the Hub, it has now become a star player, indeed “mission-critical”, in the University’s strategy for research distribution, or, KE. Increased funding and policy mandates for research deposit are correspondingly imminent.

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The “Taiwan e-Learning and Digital Archives Program” (TELDAP) was officially launched on January 1, 2008. TELDAP is aimed to digitize national cultural treasures, including archaeology, archives, artifacts, calligraphy and paintings, flora and fauna, rare books, and other cultural assets, to cultivate popular e-learning culture, to encourage innovation in e-learning research, and to lay a cornerstone for Taiwan’s e-learning and digital content industries.

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Jeong-Wook Seo, Seoul National University

A new digital library for medical student is established by digitizing analog slides from the personal teaching collection of the medical school faculty. More than 132,000 slides from 15 professors in medical school were collected and transformed into digital contents from July 2002 to 2004. Metadata of those slides were built by professors and medical students. An initial set of 57,000 slides is considered to have a reasonable quality of metadata and used for service now.

Practical issues include technical method for their use during lectures and accumulation of recent content produced by daily practice at the hospital.

To increase the use of the digital content, students are advised to use several groups of available image contents to compare the quality and then present to colleague students. New images from case conferences at the hospital are added to the collection.

Continuous efforts are being made to improve the quality of the data, particularly using the scoring system for analysis of quality of data, collection of contents from patients through the electronic medical records, and invitation of contents from other medical schools in Korea and other countries.

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Mihyang Kim, Seoul National University

Seoul National University (SNU) Library has more than 20 digital collections including rare books, archives, music AOD and medical slides. This digital content is available as part of an integrated system (http://sdl.snu.ac.kr) within the library, as well as via six other websites that are open to the public. Two of the most popular comp onents of the digital library system are the VOD of Academic Events (http://event.snu.ac.kr) and the Insect Collections (http://insect.snu.ac.kr). The VOD of Academic Events began providing event information in 2001. When the library collects event information, it also requests permission to take pictures of the event and to service VODs to the public. This allows the Library to collect and disseminate information, which is essential to developing academic content. Its metadata provides event type information and its metadata formats are classified under three categories: conferences, sessions and articles, which are further classified into groups or single articles. The Insect Collections provide information and pictures related to insects. Compared to other online insect collections, SNU’s collections provide high-quality pictures that have been captured with a camera mounted on a microscope. The website functions primarily as an access point to high-quality specimen images of insects and a retrieval system developed for taxonomists and general users. Its metadata is bound specifically to an insect taxonomy so that it meets taxonomists’ requests for information.

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Tokiko Yamamoto Bazzell, University of Hawaii at Manoa

The mission of the North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources (NCC) is to promote the exchange of ideas, contacts and resources to facilitate access to Japanese materials. This includes providing librarians and users with training in digital resources, assisting in the expansion of services in smaller institutions, promoting collaborations to increase the international sharing of scholarly materials and developing programs that cross regional and disciplinary borders.

Recognizing that rapid technological changes impact Japanese studies, the Japan Foundation Grant helped the NCC launch an E-Resources initiative in 2004. Its objective was to establish a national strategy for information literacy instruction with a focus on Japanese digital resources. In the first year of the E-Resources initiative, 33 Japanese studies librarians were trained as instructors in information literacy instruction. In the second year, development of the NCC Information Literacy Portal site began. The site was envisioned as a central training material repository for information literacy instructors; as a post-training follow-up tool, and as a self-study site on digital resources. It also provides a forum for individuals who wish to network with a wide-range of people working in the Japanese studies field. This presentation will introduce participants to the NCC’s Information Literacy Portal site.

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Hye-Jung Lee, Center for Teaching and Learning, Seoul National University
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Sylvia Yap, National University of Singapore
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Kylie Chan, Hong Kong Baptist University

The Library Coordinators Portal webpage has been designed to facilitate and provide
access to an array of information related to collection development functions that
assist Library Coordinators, a group made up of academic unit representatives, and
Liaison Librarians, to contribute expertise in their various disciplines in a more
informed, efficient and effective manner. The conventional lengthy manual book
selection process has revolutionized the introduction of this online book selection
system, which is being widely used by the Library Coordinators and Liaison
Librarians to markedly reduce the manpower involved in ordering and checking.

In addition, e-information has recently been gaining widespread popularity amongst
library users owing to its speedy and convenient access. Swift technological
advancement and the rapid evolution of electronic resources have confronted users,
particularly first-time users, with daunting technical complexity when accessing
electronic resources in libraries. These technical issues may leave some users feeling
helpless and discouraged. Online tutorials were developed in the Hong Kong Baptist
University (HKBU) Library to support the e-learning environment and to address the
issue of information literacy as an integral part of the learning process. The user
friendly interactive module has proven itself as an essential tool to encourage
self-paced access and asynchronous learning.

Intranet and document management systems have also been implemented within the
HKBU Library, thus greatly enhancing efficient communication amongst staff,
improving efficiency of workflow and roster scheduling, ensuring proper information
management and providing secure control and retention of the information in a
broader and shared access. These measures have helped to direct attention and
resources to where they are needed within the library.

In conclusion, the introduction of the online tutorial for the users, of the online
selection system via Library Coordinators’ Portal webpage, of the Intranet and of the
document management system has, with the aid of recent advances in the computing
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technology, facilitated the smooth and efficient running of the Library and achieved a
much desired organizational agility.

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