Proceedings
of the First Pacific Conference on New Information Technology,
Bangkok, Thailand, June 16-18, 1987
W. Newton, MA: MicroUse Information, 1987
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
FACILITATING END USER SEARCHING THROUGH GATEWAYS AND
FRONTENDS: MYTHS AND REALITIES
Ethel Auster . . . . . 1
BARRIERS TO INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION EXCHANGE
Roland C. E. Brown . . . . . l5
TECHNOLOGY AND POLICY FOR COMPUTER NETWORKING IN
LIBRARIES (Abstract only)
Vinod Chachra . . . . . 23
DEVELOPMENT OF A MEDICAL LITERATURE DATABASE ITS
STRUCTURE AND RETRIEVAL FEATURES
Anchalee Chamchuklin . . . . . 24
INTERACTIVE VIDEODISC TECHNOLOGY AND MICROCOMPUTERS: A
CASE PRESENTATION OF PROJECT EMPEROR-I
Ching-chih Chen and Robert D. Stueart . . . . . 33
MICROCOMPUTER APPLICATIONS IN LIBRARIES AND
INFORMATION SERVICES IN CHINA
Chen Tongbao . . . . .4l
MARKETING AND PROMOTION OF INFORMATION SERVICES FOR
SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES (Abstract only)
Leon V. Chico . . . . . 47
THE EXPERIENCE OF CAB INTERNATIONAL IN PROVIDING
INFORMATION: PROBLEMS, ISSUES AND POTENTIAL
Elaine Cook and John R. Metcalfe . . . . . 49
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, EXPERT SYSTEMS, NATURAL
LANGUAGE INTERFACES, KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING AND THE LIBRARIAN
Jim Davies . . . . . 55
DATABASE CREATION, STRUCTURE AND SERVICE
Jiang Xiang Dong . . . . . 67
THE OVERALL DESIGN OF IMAGE/3000 DBMS BASED SJTUCS
LIBRARY CIRCULATION SYSTEM
Xiangduan Dong and Shumin Shi . . . . . 73
THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN OPAC WITH GENERAL APPLICATION
SOFTWARE
D. W. Fokker . . . . . 83
CROSS-CULTURAL ISSUES IN DATABASE CREATION
Sunil K. Govinnage . . . . . 93
TOMORROW'S INTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGIES: RESEARCR AT
STANF0RD & SILICON VALLEY
Howard Greenfield . . . . . l03
THE USE OF COMPUTERS AT THE N0RWEGIAN COMPUTING
CENTRE FOR THE HUMANITIES - A FIFTEEN YEARS' RETROSPECT
Jostein H. Hauge . . . . .111
MICROCOMPUTER-BASED ONLINE REGISTER IN MONOGRAPH
ACQUISITIONING
Peter Jacso and Andras Szucs . . . . . 118
BISA AND ITS CURRENT ACTIVITIES WITH EMPHASIS ON THE
VIETNAMESE UNION CATALOG AND DATABASE (AbstraCt only)
Helen Jarvis . . . . . l25
ESTABLISHING A DECENTRALIZED MICROCOMPUTERBASED
INFORMATION NETWORK
Jane S. Johnson . . . . . l28
SISPUKOM - THE MICROCOMPUTER SOFTWARE TO MEET THE
LIBRARY AUTOMATION REQUIREMENTS IN MALAYSIA (Abstract only)
Katni Kamsono Kibat and Indahsah Haji Sidek . . . . . l39
MANAGING TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE IN LIBRARIES
(Abstract only)
Jane E. Klobas . . . . . l40
STAND-ALONE LIBRARY APPLICATIONS FOR DBASE
III (Abstract only)
Jane E. Klobas . . . . .141
THE MULTI-KEYWOR0 INDExING SYSTEM ON CHINESE CODE
FULL-TEXT RETRIEVAL SYSTEM
Karl Min Ku . . . . .143
APPLICATIONS OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN AN AMERICAN
LIBRARY - THE CASE OF OHIO UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES
Hwa-Wei Lee . . . . .155
THE AUTOMATION PROJECT OF THE NATIONAL CENTRAL
LIBRARY: A GENERAL REVIEW
Shwu-yun Lei and Huei-chung Lee . . . . .165
COOPERATION: BASIS OF INFORMATION SERVICES IN THE
MEDIAL LIBRARIES IN TAIWAN
Ellen Hao-ying F. Liu . . . . .176
LASER COMPOSITI0N & PRINTING: USE IN CHINESE
INFORMATION PR0CESS
Wei-qing Ma and Li-Hong Dai. . . . . 180
INTERACTIVE VIDEO AT LUND UNIVERSITY, SWEDEN
Kari Marklund, Bengt Sundstrom and Jan Mieziewski . . . . . 185
NEW TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT-ORIENTED INFORMATION
SYSTEMS AND SERVICES - PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS IN THE THIRD-WORLD COUNTRIES WITH SPECIAL
REFERENCE TO INDIA
Raju M. Mathew . . . . .189
DEVELOPMENT AND EXPERIENCE OF MINI-COMPUTER SYSTEM
FOR LIBRARY MATERIALS
Yukinobu Mineo, Yasutoshi Komatsubara, Keizo Itabashi and Minoru Yonezawa . . . .
.195
DEVELOPMENT OF INTEGRATE0 LIBRARY SYSTEM ON RURAL
DEVELOPMENT (Abstract only)
R. P. Mohanty and Sunil K. Govinnage . . . . . 204
ONLINE CATALOGING IN JAPAN
Eisuke Naito, Akira Miyazawa and Hitoshi Inoue . . . . . 205
TO CLAIM OR NOT TO CLAIM: SYSTEMS FOR SERIALS
CONTROL (Abstract only)
K. T. Noerr . . . . .211
AN EVALUATION OF MICROCOMPUTER SOFTWARE FOR LIBRARIES
AND INFORMATION CENTERS
Bienvenida S. E. Pagdanganon . . . . . 2l3
THE FIRST WAVE: CD-ROM ADOPTION IN OFFICES AND
LIBRARIES
William Paisley and Matilda Butler . . . . .223
INTERNATIONAL SERIALS DATA SYSTEM REGIONAL CENTER FOR
SOUTHEAST ASIA (ISDS-SEA)
Pranom Panya-ngam . . . . . 231
INFORMATION NETWORK, AN ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN OF
INFORMATION SYSTEMS (Abstract only)
C. C. Parmar . . . . . 242
LC MARC RECORDS IN CD-ROM FOR MINISIS (Abstract only)
Jill Quah and Lim Yee Hoon . . . . . 243
MINISIS/LC MARC CONVERSION: THE TRANSFER OF DATA
INFORMATION FROM A NON-MARC FORMAT (Abstract only)
Jill Quah and Lim Yee Hoon . . . . .244
INFORMAT'ION SCIENCE AND THE MARTIAL ARTS:
PERSPECTIVES ON ONLINE SEARCHING
David I. Raitt . . . . . 245
THE INTRODUCTION AND EFFECTS OF AN INTEGRATED LIBRARY
SYSTEM AT THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
E. Elizabeth Richardson . . . . . 256
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND THE LIBRARY SUILDING: THE
NEXT STEP
Jordan M. Scepanski . . . . . 265
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: ITS IMPACT ON CURRICULA OF
LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE PROGRAMS
Robert D. Stueart . . . . . 279
AN EXPERIENCE ON THE LARGE SCALE MULTI-MEDIA
DATABASE
Shigeharu Sugita . . . . .287
PERSPECTIVE AND OUTLOOK F0R ONLINE INFORMATION
(Abstract only)
Roger K. Summit . . . . . 293
CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY COMPUTER NETWORK
Knid Tantavirat . . . . . 294
ADMINISTRATIVE CONSIDERATIONS IN SELECTING AUTOMATED
LIBRARY SYSTEMS
Diane R. Tebbetts and Ching-chih Chen . . . . . 299
LIBRARY EFFECTIVENESS: THE ROLE OF MARKETING
INFORMATION
Prabha Thacker . . . . . 307
CD-ROM INFORMATION DATABASES FOR ASIAN AND PACIFIC
LIBRARIES
Sally C. Tseng . . . . . 3l9
CD - A MACHINE READABLE CHINESE DICTIONARY
Shih-Shyeng Tseng, Meng Yuan Chang, Ching-Chun Hsieh and Keh-Jiann Chen . . . .
.333
ONLINE INFORMATION SERVICES IN THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG
KONG LIBRARIES: A REVIEW
P. S. Tso and R. Yeung . . . . . 339
WESTERN LANGUAGE BOOKS ACQUISITION AND CATALOGING
SYSTEM
Xu Ting Qi . . . . .345
POPULATION INFORMATION DATABASE AND ITS AUTOMATIC
RETRIEVAL SERVICE
Xu Yi and Meng Jianmin . . . . .352
APPLICATION AND REVIEW OF COMPUTERS AND NEW
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES IN LOCAL INFORMATION ORGANIZATIONS
Jian-hong Zhao . . . . . 355
THE ZN DESIGN OF RADICAL-BASED CODES OF CHINESE
CHARACTERS FOR COMPUTER INPUT VIA A STANDARD 26-KEY QUERY KEYBOAR0 (Abstract only)
Zheng Yili . . . . . 36l
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERIZED INFORMATION SYSTEM 0F
MACHINE BUILDING INDUSTRY IN CHINA
Zhou Bin . . . . . 362
PRODUCT REVIEWS
(Arranged by Exhibitor's Name)
NEW DEVELOPMENTS FOR THE URICA LIBRARY
SYSTEM
AWA Computers . . . . . 367
MICROCOMPUTERS FOR INFORMATION MANAGEMENT:
THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL
Ablex publishing Corporation . . . . . 368
AIT-THAILAND INTER UNIVERSITY NETWORK
(ATUNET)
Asian Institute of Technology . . . . .369
TRENDS IN IMAGE
Bradmark Computer Systems . . . . . 370
CAB ABSTRACTS, ONLINE ACCESS, MAGNETIC TAPES,
FLOPPY DISKS
CAB International . . . . . 37l
THE DIALOG INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SERVICE
DIALOG Information Services, Inc. . . . . . 372
EBSCO'S SERIALS DIRECTORY-CD & MEDLINE-CD
EBSCO Subscription Services . . . . . 373
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS AT ISI
Institute for ScientifiC Information. . . .. . 374
OCLC STAND-ALONE SYSTEMS: A PRODUCT REVIEW
OCLC, Inc. . . . . 375
PACIFIC RIM SPECIALISTS' CD-ROM PR0DUCTS
Pacific Rim Specialists . . . . . 376
THE PIONEER THAI SOFTWARE
Sahaviriya OA Group. . . . . 378
GRADUATE PROGRAMS MASTER'S AND DOCTORAL)
IN LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
Simmons College . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379
SERIALS MANAGEMENT IN ASIA -
FAST/DATASWETS
Swets Subscription Service . . . . .380
DISSERTATION ABSTRACTS ONDISC AND THE NEW
INFORMATION FRONTIER
University Microfilms International . . . . .381
VIRGINIA TECH LIBRARY SYSTEMS
Virginia Tech Library System . . . . . 383
