TABLE OF CONTENTS

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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 <DISSERTATION ABSTRACTS ONDISC>

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