Thinking About Databases

Successive entry cataloging was developed to cope with the mounting recataloging work required by latest entry cataloging practice. Successive entry cataloging in the automated environment has now become a hindrance to the efficient processing and retrieval of serial publications. Online updating of fields in a bibliographic record to reflect title changes can be done simply and economically. A single master record (earliest or latest entry) with access points for title changes prevent holdings from being fragmented. Latest entry cataloging may be desirable since users tend to request recent issues. It is desirable also for serials check-in.     

试论编辑发现的思维品质

编辑发现的实质是编辑迅速捕捉、感知和整合信息,并挖掘其传播价值的能力.本文论述了编辑发现的五种思维品质:直觉思维、灵感思维、发散思维、联想思维、超前思维.     

Choosing Discovery: A Literature Review on the Selection and Evaluation of Discovery Layers

Within the next few years, traditional online public access catalogs will be replaced by more robust and interconnected discovery layers that can serve as primary public interfaces to simultaneously search many separate collections of resources. Librarians have envisioned this type of discovery tool since the 1980s, and research shows that discovery layer functionality and features have already resolved, or will soon remedy, many of the known issues with the traditional online public access catalog. The authors of this article review the literature on discovery, focusing on the evolution from the traditional online public access catalog to newer discovery interfaces, and summarize what has been published regarding the selection and evaluation of these new tools. Based on this review, emerging trends in the acquisition of discovery layers are described, including: the amount of time libraries devote to selection and evaluation, the staff involved and their areas of expertise, which discovery tools were selected to review, the evaluation methods used, and the features and functionality evaluated. The authors conclude with a discussion of the opportunities and concerns for libraries and their patrons related to discovery efforts, and provide direction for future research. While discovery layers are still developing, they show great promise in increasing the use and usability of library resources.     

关于美国政府信息政策的思考

信息政策是有关发展和管理信息事业的方针、原则和方法 ,是推动整个信息事业发展的行动指南。文中以美国政府信息政策为研究对象 ,从其信息的生产、传播、政府资助、知识产权保护、公共利益保护、竞争与垄断及信息的国际化问题等 7个方面进行了探索。参考文献 7。     

对博物馆增强观众意识的思考

一、增强观众意识的依据论及博物馆的本质,一般都把博物馆看作一个多功能的文化复合体,具有收藏、科研和教育三大功能。新近国际博物馆界出现一种观点,认为博物馆主要包括两方面性质,一是具有专业功能,包括征集、收藏和展示藏品;另一是具备公众功能。并且提出了博物馆“公众质量”（ＰｕｂｌｉｃＱｕａｌｉｔｙ）这一比较新颖的名词,探讨性地论述公众质量对博物馆生存状况的影响等问题。①所谓博物馆公众质量,归根结底,是从一个较新的角度,对新型生存环境中博物馆与观众关系这一传统问题进行重新审度,旨在寻找下个世纪博物馆生存…     

关于陈列的"内容与形式"几点思考

博物馆陈列的“内容与形式”在博物馆理论和实践中是一个恒新的问题，本认为。在正确理解陈列的内容构成和形式功能的基础上，以观众为本，把内容和形式的关系统一在观众因素上．应该成为现代陈列设计的基本原则，用这一原则来指导陈列设计实践．就要求内容和形式既要科学化又要艺术化．只有这样才能让观众从参观陈列中真正获得认知上的帮助和心理上的审美体验。     

关于图书馆员专业价值的思索

文章论述了信息社会图书馆馆员应当具备的专业及学科素质。     

关于出版社高校教材的营销推广

从高校教材管理工作的新变化入手,分析总结出版社在高校教材营销推广方面存在的一些问题,并就在新形势下如何做好教材推广工作提出对策和建议。     

Thinking About Reference Service Paradigms and Metaphors

Abstract

A critical but overlooked aspect of reference service is thinking about paradigms and metaphors. These are subconscious imageries that define how we think about our work-and how our clients think about us. Limitations of the current paradigms affecting reference services are: (1) social-class assumptions about the nature of the library and its clientele; (2) classification systems based on obsolete ideas that subject categories are mutually exclusive; (3) the fortress metaphor implied in physical organization; and (4) failure to capture statistical data that measure contemporary aspects of user service.

New ways of thinking about reference service with new paradigms and metaphors are suggested. Critical elements in a new paradigm are: (1) envisioning the library as portal, both for on-line and in-library service; (2) accepting the fact that knowledge is an open system, not conducive to our closed-system classification systems; (3) breaching our metaphorical fortress to provide more personal reference service; and (4) updating our statistical measures to match quantitative measures with actual quality of service.     

Thinking About the Next Three to Five Years

ABSTRACT

This is the fourth time we've featured a library's annual report. Our first covered the Denver Public Library. The second analyzed the Memphis-Shelby County Public Library &; Information Center. The Tulsa City-County Public Library was number three. Our fourth feature looks at the Cleveland Library's 2001 Annual Report.     

对当前传播现象的观察与思考

进入知识经济时代,以电子传媒为首的大众传播媒介大规模侵入公众生活,成为公众生活的直接背景和现实,面对大众传播的传媒角色呈现出新的特点和现象,我们应该如何看待这些问题?     

对高校图书馆岗位聘任制的思考

正确进行岗位聘任制的组织与实施,其主要内容有：建立馆长聘任制,科学合理设置岗位,建立专业技术人员聘任制和岗位目标考核制,积极引进人才等.参考文献4.     

对图书馆学研究几个问题的思考

文章对我国图书馆学研究中的一些问题作了初步研究。认为理论图书馆学和应用图书馆学应当联系和互动,应提倡相关问题的综合性研究,应用图书馆学研究应当深化,在应用图书馆学取得阶段性成果后应进一步加强学者的学术担当,加强对图书馆本质的追问。     

基于系统思考的知识发现流程研究

针对知识发现系统建设时只重视数据挖掘技术,而忽视对系统流程控制,缺乏对知识发现系统流程的模式研究问题。通过相关案例比较,提出基于系统思考的知识发现一般流程模式;分析科学研究以及商业应用中知识发现系统和公共管理决策系统模式之间的差异;归纳不同类型的知识发现系统流程的特点和关键控制点,并针对公共决策支持系统中的证伪障碍给出一个基本应对策略。     

关于博物馆事业创新的思考

创新 ,是一个民族进步的灵魂 ,是一个国家兴旺发达的不竭动力。当人类跨入 2 1世纪的时候 ,“创新与发展”成为时代的主题 ,不论是经济领域 ,或是文化领域 ,都高扬着创新的旗帜 ,把创新精神贯彻到各行各业的实践之中 ,人们在探讨科技创新、教育创新、农业创新、文化创新、旅游创新…… ,博物馆事业的创新理所当然地摆在我们面前。创新 ,是在现有知识水平和科研成果基础上的突破和飞跃。新中国博物馆事业经过5 0多年发展取得了很大成绩 ,突出表现在发展了近 2 0 0 0座博物馆 ,奠定了中国博物馆事业的物质基础 ,建立了一支文博专业队伍 ,形成…