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IT and Globle Digital Library Development

Proceedings
of The 11th International Conference on New Information Technology
Taipei, Taiwan, Aug. 18-20, 1999

W. Newton, MA: MicroUse Information, 1999

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TABLE OF CONTENTS


AN ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION NETWORK FOR CAMEROON: Need, Functions And Structure
Isolate s. Y. Ajiferuke and Alphonsus Neba .....1

INTEGRATING NETWORK-ENABLED DIGITIZED COLLECTION WITH TRADITIONAL SERVICES: Brewing a Heady
Cocktail at the IIT Delhi
Jagdish Arora .....7

PROVIDING SUBJECT DATA IN THE DUBLIN CORE METADATA  RECORD: Issues, Challenges and Strategies
Lois Mai Chan .....17

NSC DIGITAL MUSEUM PROJECT: Positioning and Prospects San-Cheng Chang .....27

DIGITAL LIBRARIES: User Studies
Shan-Ju L. Chang and Mu-Hsuan Huang .....33

EXPLORATORY DEVELOPMENT OF INFORMAITON RETRIEVAL  SYSTEMS AT STIC
Shih-Shung Chang .....43

NII, GII, I2AND NGI, AND IT*2 INITIATIVES: Implications to the  Digital Library Development in the US
Ching-chih Chen .....49

METADATA INTERCHANGE FOR CHINESE INFORMATION
Hsueh-hua Chen, Chao-chen Chen and Kuang-hua Chen.....65

TSING-HUA WEB-BASED KNOWLEDGE PARK: Vision of the First 
Virtual Educational Park in Taiwan
Li-Ping Chen and Yi-Long Huang.....75

PROMOTING DISTANCE LEARNING: Present and Future
Lih-shyang Chen .....83

PRESERVING NEWSPAPERS IN THE DIGITAL ERA
Yu-Lan Margaret Chou.....91

TRAINING REFERENCE STAFF IN THE NEW INFORMATION TECH NOLOGIES: A Comparative Study of Libraries
in China and New Zealand 
Rowena Cullen and Cheng Huanwen.....99

DIGITAL LIBRARY INITIATIVE AT THE NANYANG TECHNO LOGICAL UNIVERSITY
Foo Kok Pheow and Hazel Loh.....107

THE 5S FRAMEWORK FOR DIGITAL LIBRARIES AND TWO CASE STUDIES: NDLTD and CSTC
Edward A. Fox.....115

THE DEVELOPMENT OF NATIONAL LIBRARY/INFORMATION  POLICY FOR THE R.O.C.
Margaret C. Fung, Mei-Mei Wu and Chia-Ning Chiang .....127

THE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT OF DIGITAL LIBRARY AND  INFORMATION MARKETPLACE IN TAIWAN
Gary Gong and Pei-wen Liu.....139

LIBRARIES AND LIBRARIANS IN TRANSI-TION: The Impact of 
Digital Library Services on Society, Librarians and Bibliographic Control
Michael Gorman .....145

THE MACRO-ECONOMICS OF INTERNET DISTRIBUTION OF  DIGITAL LIBRARIES 
Robert M. Hayes.....157

CHINESE SEARCH ENGINES FOR RETRIEVING CHINESE  INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET: Search Capabilities, 
Retrieval Performances and Evaluation Criteria
Shaoyi He.....171

STEPPING INTO THE STANDARD: A Thesaurus for Australian   Agricultural Extension Information
Ling Heang.....183

THE SPRING OF 2005: Four Visions of Internet Services
Ted Ho and Chia-Ning Chiang.....191

OVERVIEW OF A DIGITAL MUSEUM OF TAIWANESE BUTTERFLIES
Jieh Hsiang and Jen-Shin Hong.....201

THE APPLICATION OF EAD IN CHINESE ARCHIVES: A Preliminary Test
Li-Kuei Hsueh .....209

THE CONSORTIUM OF CORE ELECTRONIC RESOURCES IN TAIWAN: A Case Study of  Sharing Electronic Resources
Hao-Ren Ke, Ruei-Chuan Chang and Ching-Lung Liu .....217

NSC DIGITAL LIBRARY PROJECT: A Case Study of Establishing Web-
based Online Electronic Resources
Hao-Ren Ke and Ming-Jiu Hwang .....225

THE ROLE OF THE DIGITAL LIBRARY IN SUPPORT OF DISTANCE 
LEARNING: Remote Opportunities
Ann L. Kelsey and John M. Cohn .....235

THE WORLD WIDE WEB AS LIBRARY: The Challenge of Document 
Stability to Metadata and Information Representation
Wallace Koehler ......241

BUILDING A GLOBAL DIGITAL LIBRARY: Collaboration for the 21st Century 
Nancy Kranich .....251

NEW CENTURY, NEW APPEARANCE: National Parliamentary Library, 
Legislative Yuan
Karl Min Ku .....257

THE DEVELOPMENT OF NATIONAL INFORMATION INFRA STRUCTURE (NII) IN THE ROC
Kuo Yun .....263

TAIWAN’S NEXT GENERATION RESEARCH NETWORKING
Ken-Hsien Lin  and Ruey-Beei Wu.....267

A STATISTICAL STUDY OF THE SIZE AND CONTENTS OF THE  CHINESE LANGUAGE WEB-BASED DIGITAL LIBRARY
Ziyu Lin.....275

A CASE STUDY IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF A LARGE-SCALE  DIGITIZATION PROJECT: Scanning 22 Million Images From An 
Early English Books Collections
Austin J. McLean.....285

ELECTRONIC JOURNALS AND THE SCHOLARLY COMMUNI CATION PROCESS: Present and Future
Rush G. Miller.....293

NEW OPPORTUNITIES WITH TECHNOLOGY AT THE VIETNAM  NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF HANOI
Nguyen Huy Chuong .....301

EXPLOITATION OF INFORMATION PRO-CESSING TECHNOLOGIES 
TO EXTEND DIGITAL LIBRARY APPLICATIONS
Yen-Jen Oyang.....305

THE MAZE OF ELECTRONIC JOURNALS IN DIGITAL LIBRARIES
Taemin Kim Park..... 313

CHANGING ENVIRONMENT, CHANGING ROLES: Libraries in the 
New Millennium
Paul Poon .....323

EXPLORATION OF PRACTICAL APPROACHES TO PERSONALIZED  LIBRARY AND NETWORKED INFORMATION SERVICE
Hsiao-Tieh Pu, Sung-Chien Lin, Lee-Feng Chien and Yun-Fang Juan..... 333

EUROPEAN DEVELOPMENTS IN DIGITAL LIBRARIES
David Raitt..... 345

IMPLICATIONS OF THE DIGITAL MILLENNIUM COPYRIGHT ACT 
ON DISTANT LIBRARY USERS
Helena F. Rodrigues..... 357

CLUSTER POWER: Library Internetworking in the Electronic Information Age
Win Shih and Philip Tsai..... 363

NATIONAL LIBRARY IN AN ELECTRONIC AGE: The National Central 
Library’s Remote Electronic Access/Delivery of Document Services in the ROC
Chien-Cheng  Sung..... 371

A MANAGEMENT MODEL FOR MANAGING INFORMATION  TECHNOLOGY IN ACADEMIC INFORMATION SERVICES
M. Swanepoel..... 381

FINANCING THE ELECTRONIC LIBRARY
Diane R. Tebbetts..... 391

THE STUDY OF A WEB-BASED DISTANCE TUTORIAL PROGRAM
Bor-sheng Tsai and Bau-Mei Jeng..... 399

DEVELOPING THE NATIONAL PALACE DIGITAL MUSEUM
Shun-tzu Tsai..... 411

TOWARDS THE DIGITAL MUSIC LIBRARY: An Approach by  Content-Based Retrieval
Yuen-Hsien Tseng. ..... 419

STRATEGIC PLANNING FOR IT AT THE NATIONAL LIBRARY  OF LATVIA
Andris Vilks .....429

THE DEVELOPMENT OF DIGITAL LIBRARY: Experiences in  Academia Sinica
Eric Yen, Mon-Yuan Chang, Simon C. Lin and Ching-Chun Hsieh..... 437

GLOBAL INFORMATION SERVICES AND RESOURCE SHARING:  A Shared Vision for the 21st Century
Peter Zhou..... 443

REINVENTING LIBRARIANSHIP TO MEET THE CHALLENGES  OF THE INFORMATION AGE: A Trail-Blazing Experience
Zehao Zhou..... 453

A SYNOPSIS FROM THE REPORTS OF THE ASCA/NIT GROUP

TECHNOLOGY USE AND ITS IMPACT, AND DIGITAL LIBRARY  DEVELOPMENTS IN THE ASIAN PACIFIC REGION:
Looking at the Flowers from the Horseback
Ching-chih Chen.....461


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