TABLE OF CONTENTS Page
Conference Organizers and Sponsors ..................................................... ii
NIT Participants - Map ........................................................................... iii
Message from the Chief Conference Organizer ...................................... v
PREFACE ................................................................................................ ix
ALEXANDRIA DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES: A Baseline
Document for Planning Global Information Infrastructure (GII)Ching-chih CHEN .................................................................................. 1
GLOBAL DIGITAL LIBRARY: Can the Technology Havenots
Claim A Place in Cyberspace?Ching-chih CHEN
................................................................................. 9NEW INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY APPLIED TO GENOCIDE
RESEARCH: The Cambodian Genocide Program
Nereida CROSS and Helen JARVIS ........................................................ 19PROVIDING INTERNET REFERENCE SERVICE FOR THE
NEW ZEALAND DIGITAL LIBRARY: Gaining Insight into
the User Base for A Digital Library
Sally Jo CUNNINGHAM ....................................................................... 27A HISTORY OF THE ADOPTION OF NEW INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY BY CANTHO UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES DIEP Kim Chi and HUYNH Thi Trang ................................................ 35
THE ROLE OF LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONS IN GUIDING CHANGE Barbara J. FORD .................................................................................. 43
TAIWAN INTERNET EVOLUTION: Status Report Gary GONG .......................................................................................... 51
DEVELOPMENT OF AUTOMATION OF LIBRARY PROCESSES IN
UNITED STATES: Historical Review Robert M. HAYES ................................................................................... 61 WEB-BASED LEARNING FOR INFORMATION PROFESSIONALSMaureen HENNINGER .......................................................................... 75
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM OF VIETNAM KIEU Van Hot ......................................................................................... 83EDUCATING & TRAINING STUDENTS FROM DEVELOPING COUNTRIES TO USE NEW TECHNOLOGIES:
The Simmons Experience
Em Claire KNOWLES ............................................................................. 87THE LIBRARIANSHIP OF THE WEB: Options and Opportunities
Managing Transitory Materials
Wallace KOEHLER ................................................................................ 97INTERNET, INTRANET, ELEPHANTS AND US Diana KRUGER and Caroline de WET .................................................. 107
NEW INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY APPLICATION
ON LEGISLATURES AND ITS LIBRARIES AMONG
ASIA AND PACIFIC COUNTRIES
Karl Min KU .......................................................................................... 121WHAT PEOPLE WRITE AS QUERIES IN THE WEB'S SEARCH
ENGINES: A New Tool to Investigate the Search BehaviorJacques LAJOIE .................................................................................... 127
LIBRARY DEVELOPMENT IN VIETNAM: Urgent Needs for StandardizationVinh-The LAM ......................................................................................... 141
MAXIMIZING INFORMATION ACCESS AND RESOURCE
SHARING: The OhioLINK Experience
Hwa-Wei LEE .......................................................................................... 149
HANDHELD COMPUTERS: Freeing Spatial Information
from the Desktop
Patrick MCGLAMERY ............................................................................ 158
MULTI-LINGUAL IT STANDARDIZATION: A Regional
Cooperative Activity
Eisuko NAITO and Takayuki K. SATO ................................................... 163
TAPin - TRAINING AND AWARENESS PROGRAM IN
NETWORK: A Model for Culture Change
Linda NEWALL , Bruce REID and William FOSTER ............................ 173
A MODEL OF AUTOMATING THE LIBRARY AND INFORMATION
SERVICES AT THE VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI NGUYEN Huy Chuong and TON Quoc Binh ......................................... 185BUILDING THE LIBRARY SYSTEM OF NATIONAL
UNIVERSITY OF HO CHI MINH CITY
NGUYEN Minh Hiep and HOANG Le Minh ......................................... 193THE GENERAL SCIENCES LIBRARY OF HO CHI MINH CITY:
Technology in Work Improvement
NGUYEN Thi Bac ................................................................................... 199ISSUES IN AUTOMATION FACING PRIVATE UNIVERSITY
AND SPECIAL LIBRARIES: A Case Study of Two Libraries
in Ho Chi Minh City
NGUYEN Thien Can ................................................................................ 205EMBRACING THE INFORMATION AGE: Africa's Response
to New Information Technologies
Kenneth K. ODERO ............................................................................... 211
ACADEMIC LIBRARIES AND LIBRARIANSHIP IN TRANSITION:
Where Is Information Technology Taking Us?
Daniel A. ORTIZ .................................................................................... 219
INTERLIBRARY COOPERATION: A Tool for Access to
Information in Developing Countries Patricia G. OYLER ................................................................................. 227
THE DEVELOPING ROLE FOR USIS LIBRARIANS USING
NEW INTERNET TECHNOLOGY
QUAN Mai Binh ...................................................................................... 233THE DEVELOPING ROLE FOR USIS LIBRARIANS USING
USER SATISFACTION IN THE INTERNET AGE
Helena F. RODRIGUES ......................................................................... 241
CRITICAL DECISIONS FOR DEVELOPING THE ELECTONIC LIBRARY
Diane TEBBETTS ................................................................................... 247
ABSTRACTS
EVALUATION OF UNESCO'S CDS/ISIS AND SOME INMAGIC
TEXT STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL PRODUCTS CAO Minh Kiem and Michael MIDDLETON ........................................ 261 THE CHALLENGE AND PROMISE OF COMPUTER NETWORKS IN THE LIBRARIES OF VIETNAM Michael HUFF ....................................................................................... 263BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Chief Conference Organizer, Dr. Ching-chih Chen ........................ 265
Paper Presenters .............................................................................. 267
AUTHOR INDEX .................................................................................. 273
SUBJECT INDEX .................................................................................. 275