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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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