[KS] Libraries in South Korea
Rüdiger Frank
h0727cej at rz.hu-berlin.de
Mon Dec 14 03:36:27 EST 1998
Keith Howard wrote:
>Anyway, library statistics in respect to
>education facilities are published annually in the Korea Statistical
>Yearbook. Without going to a library, the most recent copy I have is for
>1990. This gives:
>Central national library 1
>National Assembly library 1
>Public libraries 197
>College and university libraries 287
>High School libraries 1692
>Middle school libraries 1875
>Elementary school libraries 2980
>Special libraries 250
And here are the data from the 1997 Statistical Yearbook (p. 610) for the
year 1996:
Central national library 1
National Assembly library 1
Public libraries 304
College and university libraries 385
School libraries 7656
Special libraries 438
The total number of libraries went up from 7364 (1990) to 8785 (1996),
whereas in 1993 it was at 10 145. The number of staff has been reduced from
16285 (1990) to 11 701 (1996), the budget was lower, too (156 387 million
Wòn 1990 to 145327 million in 1996). The number of volumes has more than
doubled (5 182 076 to 11 384 626).
Rudiger Frank
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