Proceedings of NIT '92: The Fifth International Conference on New Information Technology


TABLE OF CONTENTS

Conference Sponsors and Endorsers . . . . . iii

Message from the Chief Conference Organizer . . . . . v

PREFACE. . . . .ix

COORDINATING RESEARCH WITH EXPERTHELP
Jocelyn Armarego & Andrew Marriott. . . . . 1

COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS: USE OF MODERN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR INFORMATION RETRIEVAL & DISSEMINATION
Jagdish Arora, Sharan Pal Kaur, Harish Chandra & R.K. Bhatt. . . . . 13

USER PROVIDED ACCESS TO THE INTERNET
Edwin Brownrigg . . . . . 33

DATA BASE CONSTRUCTION FOR LIBRARY INFORMATION SYSTEM
Cai Hongmei & Liu Qimao . . . . .39

DATABASE CREATION IN IIT DELHI LIBRARY: SOME STRATEGIC ISSUES
Harish Chandra, R.K. Bhatt & Jagdish Arora . . . . .45

UNDERSTANDING MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION SYSTEMS: CONSEQUENCES FOR TODAY AND POSSIBILITIES FOR TOMORROW
Ching-chih Chen. . . . .49

THE PREPARATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE FIRST CD-ROM CHINABASE ONDISC IN CHINA
Yuanshu Chen & Xianhua Tan . . . . .63

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL BY BROWSING
Kevin Cox. . . . .69

APPLYING VISUALIZATION TO INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
Scott C. Deerwester. . . . .81

USING MANUFACTURING QUALITY IMPROVE-MENT TECHNIQUES TO IMPROVE A CORPORATE INFORMATION CENTER
Beverly Diederich & Robert Harris. . . . .93

A LARGE SEMANTIC NETWORK FOR ASSOCIATIVE SEARCHING
Tamas E. Doszkocs. . . . .101

USING THE SKILLS OF AN INFORMATION SPECIA-LIST IN PERFORMING A SYSTEMS ANALYSIS
Leanne Erickson. . . . .119

CD-ROM TECHNOLOGY: IMPACT ON THE MEDICAL LIBRARY AND ITS ACADEMIC COMMUNITY
Min-Lin Emily Fang. . . . .127

DOCUMENT IMAGING: A STEP TOWARD A PAPERLESS OFFICE
Wilfred W. Fong. . . . .133

NEW TECHNOLOGY & INFORMATION SERVICES IN TAIWAN
Margaret C. Fung . . . . .141

GENERALIZED ACCESS METHOD INDEPENDENT OF DATA TYPES IN THE EXTENSIBLE DBMS MODUS
Kazutaka Furuse, Kazunori Yamaguchi, Hiroyuki Kitagawa,
Nobuo Ohbo & Yuzura Fujiwara. . . . .
157

AN INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IN A LIBRARY LAN ENVIRONMENT: A CASE PRESENTATION
Guo Xue-Zu, Zhang Yingxiang & Qin Xiaohong. . . . .169

A SIMPLIFIED MODEL FOR THE FINE STRUCTURE OF NATIONAL INFORMATION ECONOMIES
Robert M. Hayes . . . . .175

THE HUMAN IMPACT OF LIBRARY AUTOMATION
Karen Horsfall . . . . . 195

A STUDY OF CHINESE LANGUAGE NEWS CLUS-TERING BY TERM DOCUMENT ANALYSIS
Ching-Chun Hsieh & Shwu-May Chen . . . . .211

TRAINING AND EDUCATION OF USERS FOR THE USE OF MODERN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AT THE COMENIUS UNIVERSITY IN BRATISLAVA
Stefan Kimlicka & Sona Makulova . . . . . 213

INFORMATION SERVICES IN A HIGH TECHNOLOGY ENVIRONMENT
Alice Lean & Luther Haibt . . . . . 221

THE USE OF UMI'S
Li Mu Lan . . . . .227

INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND SERVICES FOR CHINA MACHINERY INDUSTRY
Xuan-chun Li & Ming-hong Shi . . . . . 235

CREATING ON MINISIS DATA BASE A RETRIEVAL SYSTEM FOR BASIC RESEARCH INFORMATION
Liu Qimao. . . . . 239

INTEGRATED LIBRARY SYSTEMS IN THE CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
Liu Quangen & Zhang Haihua. . . . .243

PROPOSED COMPUTERIZATION OF AYALA MUSEUM, LIBRARY & ICONOGRAPHIC ARCHIVES
Zenaida F. Lucas. . . . .249

HOME-GROWN OBJECT-ORIENTED SPECIALIZED DATABASES
A. Neelameghan. . . . . 259

INFORMATION PRODUCTS AND SERVICES: LOOKING AT THE BUSINESS SIDE
Merlita M. Opena. . . . .285

ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE, STRUCTURES AND STYLES: THE IMPACT OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES
Liz Pattison & Vicki Williamson. . . . . 295

NAVIGATION THROUGH CD-ROM MULTIMEDIA RESOURCES: THE APPLICATION OF MULTIMEDIA CD-ROMS IN SCHOOLS
Lesa Perzylo. . . . . 301

THE LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE DATABASE - THAILAND
Pimrumpai Premsmit. . . . .307

ELECTRONIC FILES AND TEXTUAL ANALYSIS
Donald E. Riggs. . . . . 313

END USER SATISFACTION: A COMPARISON OF THREE CATALOG ENVIRONMENT
Helena F. Rodrigues. . . . .319

OVERCOMING TECHNOPHOBIA THROUGH EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS OF INFORMATION STUDIES
Robert D. Stueart & Yupin Techamanee. . . . . 325

YOUR NEXT SYSTEM: PLANNING FOR MIGRATION
Diane R. Tebbetts. . . . .335

NON-LINEAR INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SEARCH STRATEGIES FOR USERS
Gulten S. Wagner. . . . . 343

LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (LANS) AND THEIR APPLICATION IN LIBRARIES
Pradeepa Wijuntunga. . . . .349

A NEW FRONTIER IN CHINESE STUDIES: DATABASES AND SCHOLARLY RESEARCH
Yeen-mei Wu. . . . .357

DEVELOP INFORMATION SERVICE INDUSTRY OF CHINA STYLE
Xie Jinshui. . . . . 363

USING SISPUKOM FOR AN INTEGRATED LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SYSTEM : THE EXPERIENCE OF ITM, JO LIBRARY, MALAYSIA
Raja Abdullah Yaacob & Nor Aziah Abdullah. . . . .369

USING ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS AS THE AUXILIARY DECISION OF COMPUTER INTEGRATED SYSTEM FOR LIBRARY MANAGEMENT (CISLM)
Yan Jianyuan. . . . . 387

CURRENT SITUATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF DATABASE SYSTEMS AND COMPUTERIZED INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SERVICES OF ISTIC
Yang Zongli.. . . .393

APPROACHES TO AN EXPERIMENTAL SYSTEM FOR CHINESE WORD INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
Yu Zeng & John N. Crossley. . . . . 399

THE DEVELOPMENT OF LIBRARY AUTOMATION IS PEKING UNIVERSITY
Zhu Qiang. . . . . 411

HANZI UNIFICATION? HANZI UNIFIED! HANZI UNIFICATION?--PROBLEMS OF HANZI UNIFICATION AS THE ISO 10646 STANDS NOW-
Jack KT Huang.....415

THE USE OF EXPERT SYSTEMS, HYPERTEXT AND AUTHORING PACKAGES TO DEVELOP REFERENCE ADVISORY SYSTEMS
June M. Anderson.....417

AUTHOR INDEX . . . . . 425

SUBJECT INDEX . . . . .427