First, this paper considers the current digitization of Rare Books in the 1990s in China. Next, it introduces the digitization of Complete Library in the Four Branches of Literature. The last, the author examines the influence of the digitization of Complete Library in the Four Branches of Literature to the academic world.
The paper indicates that the digitization of Complete Library in the Four Branches of Literature has been playing a large role in the preservation, rearrangement and using of Rare Books, and that it is helpful to the digitization of Rare Books in the near future.

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It was the judgment of Intellectual Property High Court in Sep.30.2005 that the demand should be dismissed for the purpose of prohibiting the manufacture and the sale of the word-processing software "Ichitaro" and the graphic software "Hanako". It is about eight months since the judgment of Tokyo District Court in Feb.1.2005. This case has characteristics in the point that it is a quarrel with the invention about the patent concerning the hardware of "The device and the method for treating the information" and the software of "Ichitaro & Hanako". This paper added a consideration about the problems over the intellectual property of software with guessing a focus in this case.

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It is investigated how much information for children's services has been described in 701 Japanese public library web sites, and how much usability is taken into account, especially in the web pages for children.
As the result, it is shown that the information, such as materials, spaces, and services for children, is not necessarily described enough in the web sites, from the viewpoints of public relations, in comparison with the present status of children's services. Furthermore, it is seen that the web sites in merely 123 public libraries (17.5%) include the web pages for children. In the web pages for children, the usability for children is relatively taken into account, from such a point of view as ease to read and ease of navigation.

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Biometrics as discussed in this paper those that can be utilized as individual authentication which are used mainly as a means of informational security. It has a merit that the individual living body itself becomes a "key", without using a tangible key, a password, etc., however, it is information which cannot be changed and a different problem will be occurred from the problem by loss of a tangible key or unlawful use of a password. Since biometrics has the feature of "uniqueness", "universality", and "permanence", it is an important matter to handle biometric data to comply with the data protection law. This paper aims to provide adequate interpretation of the Law for the Protection of Personal Information required for the handling of biometric data.

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The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of alterations in writing systems on online users. Though writing systems on the web are many and various, this paper limits the discussion to "user registration" and "reply" functions. "User registration" function is the mechanism that a user can write messages only after the user registers oneself on the web site. "Reply" function is the mechanism that users answer the message written by a user. This paper discusses the effect of "user registration" and "reply" functions on the number and the content of writing. The results of this survey show the following. If there is no "user registration" functions, the number of writing do not increase and disturbances slightly appear. But the ratio of Radical Access Member (RAM) rises. If there is no "reply" functions, the number of writing do not increase and the ratio of RAM falls. Furthermore, topics are not deeply argued and are often switched.

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This study examined the instructional methods for information ethics education at the senior high school. Two methods were used to teach information ethics. One was lecture-based and the other was by experience. Students were asked to write their reflections on the class. This study found differences in the reflections of the experimental group (N=23) and the control group (N=24). Most students who learned by experience pointed out difficulty in identifying a character through Internet. They considered about Internet anonymity from both point of view; a transmitter and a recipient. It is suggested that students who learned by experience were better able to understand the concept of Internet anonymity, although this effect was limited.

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