Evaluation Indicators for Green Libraries and Library Eco-friendliness

Authors

  • Younghee Noh Konkuk University
  • In-Ja Ahn Associate Professor, Department of Library & Children Services, Tongwon University, Korea

Abstract

Eco-friendliness is having little to no damaging or polluting effects on the natural environment. An eco-friendly green library is a structure that is designed, constructed, renovated, operated, and reused in an ecological and resource-efficient way. Therefore, construction of green library buildings should be a priority, as well as other eco-friendly aspects such as printed materials, non-book materials, library operations, and library service. The results of this study will set up to serve as basic data for the direction of development for green libraries in our country, as well as a reference for the employees of libraries in constructing or remodeling library buildings, establishing service infrastructure, providing information service, and planning library duties in an eco-friendly way. Furthermore, while recently a number of libraries were eco-friendly certified, the previous evaluations only reflected the architectural aspects without taking into consideration the other characteristics of the libraries. The evaluation indicators for eco-friendly green libraries that were developed in this study based on the features of libraries should evaluate the eco-friendliness of the libraries with more accuracy.

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Author Biography

Younghee Noh, Konkuk University

Biographical Details

[Author 1 bio] Younghee Noh

 

Younghee Noh has an MA and a PhD in Library & Information Science from Yonsei University, Seoul. She has published more than 50 books, including 3 books awarded as Outstanding Academic Books by Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism(Government)and more than 150 papers, including one selected as a Featured Article by the Informed Librarian Online in February 2012 and one awarded as a Best Article by Korean Library and Information Science Society.

She was listed in the Marquis Who's Who in the World in 2012-2016 and Who's Who in Science and Engineering in 2016-2017. She received research excellence awards from both Konkuk University (2009) and Konkuk University Alumni (2013) as well as recognition by “the award for Teaching Excellence” from Konkuk University in 2014. She received research excellence awards from ‘Korean Library and Information Science Society’ in 2014. One of the books she published in 2014, was selected as ‘Outstanding Academic Book’ by Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism in 2015. She received the Awards for Professional Excellence as Asia Library Leaders from Satija Research Foundation in Library and Information Science (India) in 2014. She has been a Chief Editor of World Research Journal of Library and Information Science in 2013~2016, an Associate Editor in Chief of International Journal of Knowledge Contents Development & Technology in 2011~2017.

Since 2004, she has been a Professor in the Department of Library & Information Science at Konkuk University, where she teaches courses in Metadata, Digital Libraries, Processing of Internet Information Resources, and Digital Contents. Before that, she taught courses in Using Information in a Knowledge-Based Society, Information Resources in Social Science, and Information Resources in Humanities in the Department of Library & Information Science, Yonsei University. From 1997 to 2004 she was Head of the International Information Center, Ewha Women’s University.

 

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Published

2018-03-31

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Noh, Y., & Ahn, I.-J. (2018). Evaluation Indicators for Green Libraries and Library Eco-friendliness. International Journal of Knowledge Content Development & Technology, 8(1). Retrieved from https://journals.sfu.ca/ijkcdt/index.php/ijkcdt/article/view/152

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Vol. 8 No. 1 (2018)

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