The Civil Engineering Research Institute, Ministry of Construction made the conception of civil engineering research information system for the purposes of managing and providing books and literature which are held in the Institute efficiently, as well as operating library work effectively. The system establishes the method to store both retrospective literature and up-to-date literature systematically, and utilize them. Computers are to be introduced in this system. The system comprises four sybsystems ; subsystems for information retrieval, for materials acquisition and budget administering, for circulation control and for management. These subsystems are mutually interrelated for efficient operation of the system.
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