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The purpose of this study is to investigate the characteristics of Korean books by analysing their “work types” based on the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) model.

A total of 1,000 Korean books were randomly chosen from the Korean National Bibliography (KNB) 2008 at the National Library of Korea, and the frequency of each work type was investigated.

Of the Korean books that were studied, 16.9 per cent (single works, 2.7 per cent and multiple works, 14.2 per cent) were found to be multiple manifestations, and the rates of literature and social science works were relatively high.

The FRBR model was applied to a sample of 1,000 Korean books and was not representative of all Korean books.

The usefulness of the FRBR model was found to be limited to some complex works and can be improved by applying its work types in an extended way.

In the study, the work types of Korean books were analysed based on the FRBR model for the first time using this model.

This paper reports on the design of a knowledge base for an automatic classification in the library science field, by using the facet classification principles of colon classification (CC). To do so, by designing and constructing a knowledge base that is able to be classified automatically, and by inputting titles or key words of volumes into the computer, it aims to create class numbers automatically through automatic subject recognition and processing of key words in titles through the facet combination method of CC. Especially, the knowledge base for classification was designed along with the principle of globe and cylinder, automatic classification which can be possible.