TABLE OF CONTENTS Page 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 EDUCA-TIONAL 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 AUTHOR INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 SUBJECT INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4