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Kanazawa Institute of Technology Library Center (KIT-LC) was established in June 1982 with the aim to collect one million books and ten million informations such as theses, essays etc. For the construction and realization of the LC keen attentions were paid and numerous attempts were made to establish an ideal technological special library in Japan. In other words the KIT-LC is in fact an experimentation in Japan as exemplified in the following seven points:

(1) KIT-LC basically has four functions, namely the educational center and the research center, which are self-evident at any university libraries, the center for the graduate students and the center for local technological informations.

(2) Implementation of the subject librarians system utilizing the present KIT professors.

(3) Subject librarians, who are teaching staff as well as librarians, are assigned with responsibilities of library user education.

(4) By utilizing the progressive computer system in KIT, online library system was introduced and thereby realized the form of cardless library.

(5) Through this online system all users can search the address of any documents in the library.

(6) In addition to the IR function this online system can be utilized as an integrated online library information system that handles almost all types of library operations, including acquisition, cataloging, circulation etc.

(7) In Japan the bibliographic informations are expressed mainly by two types of letter, Japanese and alphabetical letters. Based on this concept, development of the multilingal system is assumed to be possible. This means that the system can handle not only Kanji, two kinds of Kana and Roman script etc. but can also handle such script as the Arabic letter. This is currently under research by the staffs in KIT.

A more detail description of the above seven functions are presented in this paper.

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Jun 7th, 12:00 AM

Several Experimental Trials at the Kanazawa Institute of Technology Library Center Using its Online System

Kanazawa Institute of Technology Library Center (KIT-LC) was established in June 1982 with the aim to collect one million books and ten million informations such as theses, essays etc. For the construction and realization of the LC keen attentions were paid and numerous attempts were made to establish an ideal technological special library in Japan. In other words the KIT-LC is in fact an experimentation in Japan as exemplified in the following seven points:

(1) KIT-LC basically has four functions, namely the educational center and the research center, which are self-evident at any university libraries, the center for the graduate students and the center for local technological informations.

(2) Implementation of the subject librarians system utilizing the present KIT professors.

(3) Subject librarians, who are teaching staff as well as librarians, are assigned with responsibilities of library user education.

(4) By utilizing the progressive computer system in KIT, online library system was introduced and thereby realized the form of cardless library.

(5) Through this online system all users can search the address of any documents in the library.

(6) In addition to the IR function this online system can be utilized as an integrated online library information system that handles almost all types of library operations, including acquisition, cataloging, circulation etc.

(7) In Japan the bibliographic informations are expressed mainly by two types of letter, Japanese and alphabetical letters. Based on this concept, development of the multilingal system is assumed to be possible. This means that the system can handle not only Kanji, two kinds of Kana and Roman script etc. but can also handle such script as the Arabic letter. This is currently under research by the staffs in KIT.

A more detail description of the above seven functions are presented in this paper.