This document which covers the proceedings of the 1989 International Symposium on Information Technology, begins with several opening ceremony messages and includes the following papers: (1) "Reflections on International Bibliographic Standards" (Winston D. Roberts); (2) "Bibliographic Control from the User's Perspective" (Ruth A. Pagell); (3) "Some Current Problems in International Standard Book Numbers for Bibliographic Control" (Cosette Kies); (4) "CONSER: A Model Cooperative Cataloging Project" (Carolyn Norris); (5) "Information Retrieval in Multimedia Sources in an Electronic Age" (Tze-Chung Li); (6) "A Question of Format" (Alan Hopkinson); (7) "BABINAT: A Meta-Format To Support the Development of National Bibliographic Databases within Cooperative Networks" (M. J. Menou); (8) "Development of Desktop Catalog System for Books" (Shuzo Asakura); (9) "Practical Construction of a Thesaurus: The IFIC Experience" (L. Robles-Austriaco and Ariston G. Trinidad); (10) "Malaysian Official Publishing: Bibliographic Control and Description Standards" (Khoo Siew Mun); (11) "Unified Format for Information Sharing among Libraries at the Los Banos Complex" (Vilma G. Anday); and (12) "Bibliographic Standards of Indonesia" (Dady Rachmananta). Notes on the contributors and a list of the symposium's seven committee members are provided. (SD)