The paper generalizes the achievements o f the standardization for information an d documentation in China from the foundi ng of China National Technical Committee of Standardization for Information and Documentation(CNTCSID).The two current major probjects of CNTCSID are described as follows:The setting up and the revising of national standards and the editting of the Introduction of Standards Used in Scientifical & Technological Information Systems. It is pointed out that the standardization in this area should be compatible with which developments in information technologies. Finnally, the authors give out their opinion s about how to improve the standardizat ion in this area.

The paper describes the current development of standardization for information technologies in internationl organizations,as well as America, Japan European Union and China.Then,the author gives out his opinion about the basic rules.the maior tasks and the strategies in developing the standardization for information technologies in China.

The paper discusses the definition of standardization of information and documentation as well as its two classified systems.The achievements in this area from 15 years ago when the China National Technical Committee of Standardization for Information and Documentation was fornded are described.Finnally,it is pointed out that the research on standardization in this area must be carried out according to its own characteristics.

The article discusses the nature of the standardization for information and docu mentation.The baris of drawing up a standard is pointed out.Several questions are discussed.They are:the essential characteristic of the information and do cumentation standard is unification;there are interrelations between standards;what the importance of the principle of unanimity is.

The article analyses the four major problems which must be solved in order to realize the nationwide cataloguing in publication until 1995.Then,the theory of system engineering is used to build up a socialized “bibliographic information network”.

The author gives own his oun opinions about the basic topics concerning the development of Chinese Cataloguing Rules. These topics are:whether the Chinese cataloguing practices and the western cataloguing practices can be intergratd;to retain the main entry or not;when to use the detailed cataloguing and the simplified cataloguing; the relation between the manual cataloguing and the computer-aided cataloguing;how to realize the authority control.

The paper describes the benefit of the standardization for electronic publicat ions and the facts of its development.The characteristics of ISO 8879 Standard General Makeup Language(SGML) which is a standard being used to describe the structure of the content model for electronic publlications are discussed.Finally,the current and the possible future developm ent of SGML in electronic publications is pointed out.

The paper analyses the concept of standardiztaion of information retrieval language the development of retrieval languag e in China is described.After that the influence of the Chinese Library Classification and the Chinese Thesaurus on the standardization of retrieval language is presented.At last the author points out the major trends of standardization of retrieval language in China.

The article analyses the use of the national standards-GB3179 and GB7713 in the scientific periodicals,points out the problems of these standards.suggestions are given out to improve them.

The paper describes the contents of the standardization of the archive terminology,the development in this area inside and outside China and why this standardization is very important to the theory construction of archivistics,the actual archive services and the standardization of archive services.The problems and their solutions in the standardization of Chinese archive terminology are given out.

Chinese Physics Database (CPD)is a new,comprehensive system which contains information collection,data processing,data management,thesaurus management,retreival services,data magnetic disk production and Chinese Physics Abstracts pubilition,with functions and practicality.The studing and estabilishing process of Chinese Physics Database(CPD)and its system was introduced.The functions of CPD and its applications were described in detail.

This paper focuse on the development of network technigue and the trends of comp uter network connection all over the world,then it describles the selection of  the project of automatic management system in the library in connection with the features of the library.It intends to relate the realization of the automatic management system in the library with LAN system mode and C/S computing mode.

The paper compare the traditional MARC with the catalogue designed by Mo Shaoqiang,confirm the traditional MARC have more superiority.Making catalogue on the basis of the MARC is capable of meeting needs of developing automation of library and information services,and is also necessary for Chinese catalogue data to be spreaded over the world.