1 Beth McKillop, The British Library Library contacts with Korea.

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Beth McKillop, The British Library

Library contacts with Korea

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The British Library

• Founded in 1973• Collections grow 12km every year (625 km)• 150 million items, 3 million new items

incorporated every year • On-site space for over 1200 readers

• 16,000 people use the collections each day

• 2,500 staff in London and Yorkshire

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The National Library of Korea

• Opened 1945

• Collection numbers 3,300,000 volumes

• Users number 1,500,000 annually

• Important role in training librarians

• Staff numbers over 200

• Active plans for a digital library

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The Grand People’s Study House

• Founded in 1982

• Capacity for 30 million volumes

• Accommodates 12,00 visitors per day

• Has a hotel in Pyongyang to house

researchers visiting from around the country

• Functions as a social education centre

• During 2001, installed a networked catalogue to replace its card catalogues

• Electronic resource creation hampered by lack of international contacts

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