Annual Report 1993-94

57 same discipline in the same place. Throughout the year both users and library staff had to readjust and adapt themselves to this comprehensive rearrangement, and the system is still being fine-tuned. In time library users w i ll find that they are better served by the new system. Other improvements include the introduction of new technologies to complement conventional library holdings and facilities. More CD-ROM titles were added as they proved to be extremely popular, witnessing an increase of 42 per cent in the number of users in 1993-94. By the end of 1993-94 there were 106 drives at the University Library and 34 at the Medical Library for reading CD-ROM titles. Also newly introduced was a multimedia library orientation programme for library users. Following the loading of 90,000 Chinese title records in their vernacular form into the library database, Chinese materials also became accessible through online public catalogue in 1993-94. Apart from serving faculty, staff and students, the University Library has been making its resources available to other institutions in the world of learning. In 1993-94, the CUHK library lent more books to other UPGC-funded libraries than borrowed from them, and the lending to borrowing ratio is as high as 1.77:1 — an indication that the University has an excellent library collection and is a major provider of information for local academics. 校園電腦化 Campus Computerization Upgraded 大學電腦設施和電訊系統於九三至九四年度再獲改進。 電算機服務中心的萬國商業機器主體電腦和新裝置的惠普 UNIX 系統群，爲全校提供 高速運算和優質軟件服務。該中心新落成的用戶區共有微電腦一百二十台，是中心網絡 的前端訪問點，用戶可進入網上的一切局域網、工作站服務器、多用戶 UN I X 和主體機 器。這些計算機平台針對教學和科硏而設，基本上解決了校內絕大部分的電腦運算需 求，餘下的專門課題則由個別學系自行發展。 在教師辦公室、實驗室、學系和書院電腦室，和行政部門辦公室，更有超過一千五 百台微電腦和工作站；它們各自組成局域網，又與校園主幹光纖網絡聯接。校園光纖網 絡經已延伸至大學各幢主要的教硏行政大樓和圖書館，包括遠離校本部的威爾斯親王醫 院、瀝源健康院、香港生物科技硏究院，以及五十四個經高速公共交換電話調制解調器 聯繫的用戶。所有校內校外用戶已經連成一個能相互通訊和共享資源的群體。 九三至九四年度圖書館流通量 Library Circulation, 1993-94 書 Books 334,110 各類學報 Periodicals 8,994 指定參考書 Reserve Books 170,189 影音資料及其他 Audio-video Materials & Miscellanous 26,222 總數 Total 539,515