Periodical Use in a University Music Library

In an effort to measure in-house use of music periodicals, a citation study based on bibliographies in theses and dissertations was conducted at the Indiana University Music Library. A total of 256 titles were cited, but only 30% were cited more than once. While the periodical literature cited by musicologists has a low rate of obsolescence, the periodicals cited by theorists and educators becomes obsolete at a rapid rate, making the rate of obsolescence for the field as a whole, fairly high, unlike other subject areas in the humanities.     

Cases and Case Lawyers

ABSTRACT

In the 19th century, the term “case lawyer” was used as a label for lawyers who seemed to care more about locating precedents applicable to their current cases than understanding the principles behind the reported case law. Criticisms of case lawyers appeared in English journals in the late 1820s, then in the United States, usually from those who believed that every lawyer needed to know and understand the unchanging principles of the common law in order to resolve issues not found in the reported cases. After the Civil War, expressions of concern about case lawyers increased with the significant growth in the amount of published law after private companies entered the legal publishing market. By the turn of the 20th century, it was generally acknowledged the number of cases had made it impossible for attorneys to not focus on locating precedents. In the 20th century most references to case lawyers were historical, even as the amount of published law facing lawyers continued to grow.     

How Little Is Known: Finding Regulations from the First 100 Years of the United States

The task of finding 19th-century regulations is not as daunting as it might initially appear. By adapting well-worn research advice about the importance of secondary sources and indexes and by exercising a healthy dose of creativity, researchers will be better prepared either to find the sought-after regulations or to fail—but to do so with a greater understanding of the universe of existing and available documents. This article briefly examines 19th-century administrative law and its publication and identifies some of the issues facing researchers. After reviewing early attempts to help provide access to regulatory documents, this article offers suggestions for modern researchers faced with this difficult, but not impossible, research.     

《纽约时报》和《泰晤士报》中的上海形象研究(2010-2017)

本文以框架理论为方法,通过对2010-2017年《纽约时报》和《泰晤士报》上海新闻报道的话语和框架进行分析发现,上海形象塑造中所凸显的要素处于一种矛盾复杂的境地:上海既前景广阔又充满考验,在政府调控与各种不成熟不完善的市场环境中迅速崛起;上海作为一个现代开放的国际重量级文化中心,又存在市民群体规则意识薄弱,城市公共安全管理隐患不断的媒体形象。文章还探讨样本框架建构特征表现为政治化倾向的归因定势和完整性叙述缺乏。     

The Ladies' Home Journal, 'How America Lives' and the Limits of Cultural Diversity

Drawing upon studies of media history and print culture, this article analyzes the relationship among early-nineteenth-century Latin American periodicals, literary institutions, and new experiences of time and history. Framing these periodicals as a new medium which boomed during and immediately after the wars of independence, it underscores their impact upon forms of reading and writing, as well as their importance for concurrent and later debates on the norms governing literary institutions, including the status and definition of literature. Ultimately, this new medium gave rise not only to a new prose—which was described as accelerated and therefore ‘modern’—but also to new forms of discursive authority and to an unprecedented legitimacy for literary genres such as the novel. As such, this article departs from the nation-building paradigms that have governed studies of the Latin American nineteenth century, establishing instead a dialog between periodicals of the whole region, with an emphasis on Cuba, Chile, and the Río de la Plata.     

Taking Paint Samples for Pigment Analysis in Nineteenth-Century England

ABSTRACT

During the nineteenth century, chemists became increasingly engaged in the conservation treatment of polychrome surfaces. While collaborations between chemists and museum workers in charge of easel painting collections were mostly oriented towards the improvement of conservation practices, the involvement of chemists in the nascent field of archaeology was oriented towards material characterization, such as pigment analysis of polychrome surfaces. Since this type of analysis is destructive and damages the artwork, it could, therefore, be assumed that chemists were in these cases less concerned with the conservation of objects with an archaeological and historical provenance. On the contrary, my new reading of nineteenth-century English primary sources reporting pigment analysis shows that chemists also had ethical concerns about the physical integrity of archaeological objects and their conservation. This is apparent in the process in which paint samples were taken from the artworks for their subsequent analysis.     

Framing controversy over language policy in Malaysia: the coverage of PPSMI reversal (teaching of mathematics and science in English) by Malaysian newspapers

In 2003, the Malaysian Government announced the policy of Teaching of Mathematics and Science in English [ETeMS or better known by its Malay acronym, Pengajaran dan Pembelajaran Sains dan Matematik dalam Bahasa Inggeris (PPSMI)]. The policy has, however, caused a furore, with both Malay nationalists and Chinese educationists treating the decision as an attack on their identity. Later in July 2009, the Malaysian Government announced to reverse the PPSMI policy starting from 2012. Researchers have long understood news as an artefact of a socially constructed reality. In making news, journalists shape a reality that reflects the political economic and ideological boundaries within which they work. By employing framing as the theoretical framework and content analysis as the research method, this study examined what pictures newspapers have created for citizens' understanding of the reversal of PPSMI policy. It was found that the mainstream newspapers framed the issue in similar ways, which was to explain and justify the reversal. Meanwhile, the alternative newspaper reflected what was mostly left outwhile the alternative newspaper reflected what was mostly left out and provided a counter-hegemonic discourse.     

The Battle of the Downs

The first newspaper publishers of the seventeenth century faced a momentous challenge. How could they compete in a highly competitive news market with their periodical invention? The newspaper was generally a cautious medium, offering an assortment of short international news reports without overarching editorial opinion. The newspaper rarely displayed the wit and polemic present in other news media of the early modern period, and operated with a rigid schedule of publication. This article portrays how such standards could be cast off in the face of military victory and defeat. The naval battle of the Downs in 1639 engaged two rival newspaper markets in Amsterdam and Antwerp. By analysing the simultaneous reporting of the battle in the Dutch Republic and the Habsburg Netherlands it becomes clear that newspaper publishers employed numerous tactics in order to shape the coverage of the battle—and to strive for the relevance of their newspapers.     

纽约时报公司的经营模式探析

跨媒体经营正在改变美国信息知识的提供形式和成本 ,使传媒业务结构更趋个性化 ,避免恶性的同位竞争。纽约时报公司是一个有代表性的经营个案。公司重视资本运营和品牌资产 ,以报业为主业 ,以“内容供应”为经营理念 ,弱化传媒形态的区隔 ,建立了印刷媒体、网络媒体和广播电视媒体的综合平台 ,通过技术共用而达到媒体融合、资源共享 ,开拓全国和地方市场     

编辑核对外文参考文献的效果

对5位主张核对参考文献的编辑所编发的文后外文参考文献的著录情况进行了调查.结果证明,编辑认真对待参考文献并核对之,可使外文参考文献著录的错误率降低约50百分点.     

The Nineteenth-Century World of Turkic Dictionaries: An Overview

The author creates a bibliographic picture of the various Turkic-language dictionaries from the eleventh to the end of the nineteenth centuries, in various languages, and describes their structure. He then focuses specifically on printed Turkic dictionaries of the nineteenth century, discussing their historical context and a statistical survey that he conducted. A number of these dictionaries have been digitized; he examines some sites where they are accessible. In the appendix is a list of the dictionaries that he found in the course of his research.     

Supplemental Income

The introduction of colour supplements by three ‘quality’ newspapers during the 1960s was a key development in the British press during the decade, and was described by the editor of the Sunday Times as ‘perhaps the most successful single innovation in post-war journalism’. This article provides an overview of the advent of the colour supplements, explaining why they emerged when they did and developed in the manner they did, and exploring some of the difficulties and issues that attended their arrival. The article also demonstrates that sections of the British press were capable of taking advantage of changes in print and advertising culture brought about by the arrival of the post-war consumer society. However, the term ‘colour supplement’ became pejorative shorthand for the perceived vacuity of this new society, in part because of the tension that existed between the editorial and advertising content of these modish new publications. Consequently, the success of the colour supplement experiment was not universally celebrated.     

Influences of the Digest Classification System: What Can We Know?

Robert C. Berring has called West Publishing Company's American Digest System “the key aspect of the new form of legal literature” that West and other publishers developed in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Berring argued that West's digests provided practicing lawyers not only the means for locating precedential cases, but a “paradigm for thinking about the law itself” that influenced American lawyers until the development of online legal research systems in the 1970s. This article discusses questions raised by Berring's scholarship, and examines the late nineteenth and early twentieth century legal environment in which the West digests were created and became essential research tools for American lawyers.     

学科交叉背景下的科技期刊建设

通过调查等方法,研究学科交叉视野下的科技期刊建设的机制;分析期刊政策导向、编辑自身建设、编委审稿团队培养、破解多学科专业理论壁垒等问题,提出相应的解决对策,旨在以期刊建设促进学科交叉发展,以学科交叉反哺科技期刊的发展.     

美国《物理评论快报》的编辑策略

介绍美国<物理评论快报>的编辑策略,旨在为我国期刊编辑工作提供借鉴.重点介绍快报的任务、内容、编辑规则、流程、作者权利和义务,从中可以看出该刊有以下特点:采取非匿名性审查,并鼓励评审人与作者直接沟通;建立一支实力雄厚的审稿队伍;给予编辑适当的论文裁决权利;作者可为论文被拒绝接受提出申诉.     

THE ACQUISITION OF SERIALS AT THE BENSON LATIN AMERICAN COLLECTION

No abstract available for this article.     

Censorship and Scarcity

This article presents a case study on how goods scarcity, both natural and artificially created, was used along with censorship to control the Portuguese public's access to information during the 1930s and 1940s. Even though the dictatorship that ruled Portugal from 1933 relied on a censorship apparatus that prevented the publication and broadcast of many pieces of national and international news, the research presented in this article demonstrates how the regime took advantage of the Spanish Civil War and World War II to increase restrictions on the circulation of information, justifying this through the artificially created scarcity of paper and radio frequencies. Furthermore, this article also describes how a third type of scarcity—that of electricity—also restricted listeners' access to radio broadcasts, which led many Portuguese to make sacrifices in order to listen to updated news.     

21世纪新图书馆运动论文综述

“21世纪新图书馆运动”是一次深刻的社会人文思潮在图书馆的反映,这次关于图书馆精神、图书馆制度和权利的大讨论将留给人们深深思考。“21世纪新图书馆运动”的主旨是要使公共图书馆服务对象回归“公共”。     

谈近代国人报刊最早报道诺贝尔奖

诺贝尔奖是世界科学界的最高奖项。根据《时务报》的珍贵史料,可以得出:在迄今掌握的史实中,《时务报》才是最早介绍诺贝尔奖相关情况的国人报刊。