Libraries are located at more than 10 places inside Toray Industries, Inc. Those libraries are only linked through the company's union catalog which covers not only Japanese journals but also foreign journals and has been long revised over several times in these 40 years. Since the end of eighties most libraries have not introduced online operation for reference services, resulting that main operation by those libraries has become how to manage printed materials. The author discusses the matters to be attended in newly using electronic journals under such a situation that printed materials have been centered around in library operation, based on introduction experiences of SD-21. She also describes why the librarians who have been in charge of introducing electronic journals became encouraged to do their own duties, and how to obtain knowledge on electronic libraries and flow of scholarly information, which is necessary matter for librarians.
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