2003 Volume 46 Issue 3 Pages 164-172
Along with the recent development of Information Technology (IT) such as the Internet or computer technology, scientific journals or books have come to be digitalized rapidly, which trend has also been inducing the digitalization of a whole library system. In this report, we present the strategy of electronic library system constructed for the library in Toshiba Research and Development Center, as a representative case for the libraries in private corporations. Through an analysis of the questionnaires carried out in the Center, there revealed various problems, such as how the electronic system can go along with printed references. Based on this study, the perspective in digitization of the library system is discussed, which leads to the future information managing system in a company.
