Library of Congress' digital library initiatives, achievements and plan for the future are stated. The new age of digital library at The Library of Congress had begun with American Memory pilot program in 1990-1994 and reached to realize the National Digital Library (NDL) Program which included the American Memory in as the cornerstone program. NDL's online programs on the Web are introduced as well as the contents and the evaluation of NDL program. As to future prospect, the program's planners envision a future library"without walls" existing together with the library"with walls."
Present status of computer techniques for new materials design is reviewed. The utilization of computers to new materials design attracts much attention as alternative method for traditional trials-and-error methods. For that purpose, all computer techniques such as computer simulation, database and knowledge-base are fully utilized. Computer-aided materials design has possibility to develop completely new materials which can not be found by traditional methods as well as to shorten the period to develop new materials.
JICST has developed JOISwithSTN that allows customers to search and retrieve the data of STN database by using JOIS commands. ANSI Z39.50which is the standard protocol for Information retrieval is used as the gateway connection between STN and JOIS. In this report, the functions of this system is described with the comparison of JOIS command and Z39.50 protocol.
Now, the great development of information and telecommunication technologies has been creating digital libraries in the world, especially in the area of academic libraries. Digital materials published in the network environments have many different aspects from paper materials under copyright law. Paper libraries have enjoyed specific privileges in the copyright law system, and digital libraries shall require an equivalent protection under the trends of international harmonization.