Annual Report 1996-97

全新之圖書館研討室，設備先進。 A newhi-techuser-education room volume of catalogued items was increased and backlog s were cleared despite a reduction in the number of cataloguing staff. Through careful evaluation of book vendors, outsourcing services and electronic ordering, the speed of materials acquisition was increased. Renegotiation with agents also brought down the annual cost of providing insurance coverage for library collections. 改善服務 New Improvements 圖書館系統於學年初把電腦資料遷移到新的電腦系統 I NNOPAC 之後，加入了許多新的設施和功 能，為迎接全球電子圖書館的發展趨勢作好準備。 圖書館安裝了 Z 3 9 . 5 用戶伺服器，方便讀者查閲世界多個圖書館的目錄和瀏覽重要的資料庫如 OCLC 的 F i r s t Se a r c h 資料庫、電子參考圖書館、 Ov i d 醫學全文檢索、物理電機電子計算機及控 制資訊服務資料庫、社會科學摘要，以及光碟資料庫。 73 Academi c Suppor t Facilitie s