의학도서관 수서정책의 변화와 그에 따른 문제점에 관한 연구

In the year 2000 the form of medical information was radically changed from paper base to electronic one. With the increase of electronic medical information and the easy access that entails from it, medical libraries and users now prefer to the electronic information. Librarians converted acquisition policy into the form of consortium which sells medical information on a package form of electronic information. Because of the change of subscription methods, libraries now have to pay ever increasing consortium fee as well as the allotted budget for subscription to the publishers. As a result of this practice, medical libraries are beginning to experience confusion of executing budget. In order to solve the unwelcomed confusion and to support to establish a more efficient and stable acquisition policy, this paper analyzes the current policy in terms of its benefits as well as the disadvantages of the changed acquisition policy.