Academic New Town Community Cable Service (ACCS) has been coping with reception trouble of TV wave under the Government policy at Tsukuba Science City and examining “Tsukuba Information System by CATV” for advanced use of CATV broadcasting facilities. As to countermeasures against reception trouble of TV wave the author describes the details of jamming which has been occurred since the City was constructed, the organization of the CATV network and the progress. As to Tsukuba Information System by CATV the author describes the purpose of development, setup for the development, the service and system organization.
Nikkan Kogyo Shinbun-sha will initiate the on-line service of NK-MEDIA, a database dealing with newspaper information, in this October. It will be provided through JOIS network. NK-MEDIA is mainly concerned with new products, and new technology consisting of title within 40 letters and abstract within 300 letters. It can be searched by using enterprise or corporate names and terms in Nikkan Kogyo Thesaurus. The author describes why the database was constructed, how it was prepared and what the Thesaurus scheme is.
On-line system for library operation was developed and is now performed by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. It was designed to handle Japanese characters, and operation is made by user own. Especially, the retrieval system has easy handling and versatile functions. The system contributes to rationalization of library operation managing more than ten thousand patrons and about thirty thousand books.