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Contains 64 papers presented at the November 2000 conference. The main areas of discussion are digital library projects, web-based systems, search engines, data mining, multimedia contents, multi- dimensional data, copyright issues, systems organization, and applications. Topics include the automated reference service system at Kyoto University library, secured web access, identifying result sub-documents of XML search conditions, the digitization of rare books at the British library, self-maintained folder hierarchies as document repositories, and scenario-based information retrieval in a medical digital library. No subject index. c. Book News Inc.