No.14
October,1996
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Seminar Report on "Desired form of international document supply"
NACSIS and the Public/Private Universities Library Cooperative Committee (chairmanship: Chiba University's Library) held a joint seminar on the subject "Desired form of international document supply" at University of Tokyo General Library on February 7. At the seminar, Dr. Dorothy Gregor, a former University Librarian of the University of California, Berkeley and the Director of National Coordinating Committee for Japanese Library Resources (NCC), and Dr. Donald B. Simpson, President of the Center for Research Library (CRL), gave lectures. About 30 members attended the seminar from the libraries joining the above-mentioned committee such as University of Tokyo, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama National University, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Keio University, Waseda University, Sophia University, and so on.
In the lectures, the current practices of shared resource use among academic libraries in North America and the structure of mutual cooperation of OCLC were reported. The level of interest among U.S. researchers about Japanese information is high, reaffirming the need to access the library catalogs and journal articles of Japan and to study a method of electronic document delivery. The seminar clearly showed that a close relationship between Japanese and U.S. libraries is needed and that the views of the both sides must be exchanged.