2002 Volume 45 Issue 5 Pages 348-352
With the vision of a reference library for the 21st century-oriented, we established a technical information center in Yokohama Building of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. completed in May 1994. However, the new century has come, IT has progressed far beyond expectations up to the present. Large number of information changed from printed materials to digital, documents and materials on bookshelves are now being in server computers. Epoch of host computer and terminal systems, only specialists could operate and search databases, but nowadays it have completely been shifted to server and client systems, anyone can search as a searcher. In other words, the era of ordinary end-users as searchers has come. The role of the technical information center is further strongly forced to change from information management of a library to offering valuable information services as a “real Technical Information Center”.
