A Study of University Library Automation Systems Linked to the Nationwide Cataloging System through the Science Information Network.

国立科学信息系统研究中心（NACSIS）是一个国立大学间研究机构，一直在为日本的大学图书馆开发和运营一个全国性的在线编目系统。许多高校图书馆已经开始实施图书馆自动化，其中流通系统是图书馆自动化的主要应用。在线编目系统在图书馆独立运行时并不完全有效。NACSIS的国家系统是一个共享编目系统，其目标是通过整合各图书馆的编目过程，建立一个全国性的联合编目数据库。该研究项目的目的是促进图书馆系统的发展，使每个图书馆内的各种技术程序有效地自动化，以及联合目录的利用和建设。澄清了在每个图书馆执行本地任务时访问国家信息系统数据库的技术问题，并开发了一个原型软件。基于该软件编写了多个应用程序，并由参与机构：图书馆情报大学、庆应义塾大学和国立日本文学研究所的研究人员进行了数据上传、回溯转换和多窗口界面的实验。研究人员计划通过与图书管理员的讨论来改进原型系统，使其适合图书馆的需求。

National Center for Science Information System (NACSIS), a national inter-university research institute, has been developing and operating a nationwide online cataloging system for the university libraries in Japan. Library automation has been conducted in many university libraries, which includes circulation systems as the major application. Online cataloging systems are not fully effective when operated at libraries independently from each other. The national system at NACSIS is a shared cataloging system with the objective of constructing a nationwide union catalog database by integrating cataloging process at libraries.The research project was organized to promote the development of library systems which effectively automate various technical procedures within each library as well as utilization and construction of the union catalog. Technical problems of accessing the NACSIS database while executing tasks local to each library, were clarified and a prototype software was developed. Based on the software, several applications were written and experiments on data uploading, retrospective conversion and multi-window interface were conducted by researchers at participating institute: University of Library and Information Science, Keio University and National Institute for Japanese Literature.The researchers plan to enhance the prototype systems to make them fit to the library needs through discussions with librarians.