...Lawrence W.H. Tam In Hong Kong resource sharing for cooperative cataloguing for Chinese language materials started in the 1990s with an infrastructure of a Z29.50‐based distributed system under the auspices of JULAC of the University Grants Committee. The advantages and limitations...

... (converting the bibliographic file of one library to that of another) and sharing the files among libraries impossible. Owing to the lack of a unified catalog network, most libraries in Taiwan used US databases such as OCLC and Bibliofile Catalog Production to file Western language publications, while...