The paper presents prototype of digitized music library, in which three key technologies are adopted of the digital, the retrieval and the availability of music on Internet. A module is designed that could transfer numerical musical notation of the Chinese folk music into the popular stave format. With this ability, a user could search a melody in numerical musical notation format even if he does not know any thing about it. In order to create a retrieval mechanism for a whole melody, some new ideas are discussed in resolving the problem.

Under the general trend of informational society, database industry has become the essential industry of information industry. Focusing on the lashes of the wave of knowledge economy and seeing from the angle of innovation,this paper probes into the current situation of the development of China s database industry, and expounds from the aspects of research, development and business management of database that it is necessary to speed up the development of China s database industry by full use of the latent capability of knowledge and technological innovation.

Database technology is a major component of modern information technology and have an important place in the development of knowledge based economy for it relates directly to the progress of one nation s informationization. This paper reviews the 30-year growing process of database technology and discusses the stain quo of all kinds of databases that are in vogue at present and also illustrates the developing trend of database technology.

In this paper, the author propose an extensible metadata architecture that meets the information sharing requirements. Then the author introduce the background and function of the metadata architecture.

This paper introduces the technical characteristics of client/server architecture in implementing digital library. The 3-tired client/server architecture and the middle tier technology is explored. This study shows this archite cture offers advantages of high performance, scalability, easier maintenance,object reuse, more effective use of data and networks, and high development productivity.

Firstly, this article gives a brief introduction of current status of application of CD-ROM database networks in Library and information Service. Secondly, it gives an evaluation of two CD-ROM database network being used in Library and information Service. Finally, it gives a set of indices, which evaluate CD-ROM database network.

This article examined the home pages of 52 college libraries in order to compare design similarities and differences and a typical home page is discussed by the averages of these results of examination.

This paper describes the main advantages and basic functions which an information/Library system on internet/Intranet must possess, after analysing the functions and price policy of MINISIS, M2L and MWI, it considers that MINISIS/M2L/MWI is an ideal solution for establishing this system.

With a brief analysis on the problems of traditional image retrieval, the paper describes the principles and processes of the emerging content-based image retrieval techniques, illustrated by examples such as QBIC, Image Rover, VisualSeek, and WebSeek.

Two ways to connect to BDSIRS full - text information retrieval system were introduced in this paper. Then, the author tried out a new connecting way by the use of special retrieval software for BDSIRS and via internet. It is proved that this measure can not only be practical and effective but also reduce costs. Base on studying of the full-text retrieval methods and technics, the skills from it probably are practical value.

The information resources based on the World Wide Web for the academic libraries are researched. And some suggestions on WWW academic information services are presented.

Electronic information resource is the existing base for information network. If obtainable information resources are less, information users shall lost interest to the web. This model emphasizes to ensure the information resource from the LAN as whole system and intensive type enrichment, its special feature, and the rivalrousness of the LAN s information resource. Therefore, the information users can search information easier and more exact.

Virtual university and distence education are the freshest results of today s world high education. Distence education of library and information science was born accompanying. This paper discusses distence education thought, teaching contents, teaching method, management, and its implementation problems.

This paper discusses distance education and courseware building which lead an important role on Library and information education.

High-way information prople the informative sociaty forward, in the meantime it bring about a series of new problems for the legal protection of interllectual right. The essay approach these problems from four different angles. Mainly it includes digital right of traditional works, legal character of digital works and transmission of network,and how to put digital works to rational use.

In recent years, by the progresses of computer technology and network application, There are some new problems of library automation must to deal with in Taiwan academic Libraries. The client/server structure instead of host-base, but there are still some questions needing solution, such as copyright, adjusting library services to automation system, standardization of character sets,etc. The authors have analysed to those problems and made some suggestions for how to evaliation of library automation system.

This article discusses the construction and the actual problems of our library s existing computer network system, it raises the system s re formation programme. Now a set of leading computer network with advanced technology, flexibility and reliability has been built, easy to manage and exchange.

This article reviewing the automatic process of our library in brief, and introducing our "211" project named "The library document and information resource" in detail, including the rudiment of digitial library s design and collocation. At the same time it look into the future of rudiment s effect and relative problems of this digital library.

This paper intruduces how to use DataWindow in PowerBuilder, and general information is given.

The contents of this paper is based on the statistics of research papers about library work of audio-visual data published in 1988- 1997,topic of the research papers and the kind of journals which published the research papers.