从毛主席给报刊题名说起

1940年春,陕甘宁边区大众读物社出版《边区群众报》。《大众习作》的时候,毛主席亲笔写了报头和封面题名。《大众习作》出版了两期,毛主席觉得题名写得不够好,又重新写了七幅同样的题名,交边区大众读物社选择一幅换上。1947年底,西北解放战争形势好转,边区群众报社在绥德县霍家坪驻了下来。把报纸版面由八开扩大为四开。随后,又请示中共中央西北局,决定把《边区群众报》改为《群众日报》,并致信毛主席,请他题写报名。不久,毛主席即派人给报社送来了用白纸题写的四幅     

柳亚子《沁园春·雪》纪念册背后

1945年重庆谈判期间,毛泽东赠《沁园春·雪》词给柳亚子,成为轰动一时的一段佳话。1951年柳亚子在《文汇报》副刊发表文章《关于毛主席咏雪词的考证》,由此人们才确知当年毛泽东为柳亚子题写的《沁园春·雪》词有两幅,一幅     

往事已成浮梦

1968年9月,"文革"进入第三个年头.我由小学生变成了初中生.父亲孔另境被虹口分局带走"谈话"已经两个多月了,我受妈妈之命已去拘留所为父亲送过几次衣服与食物等.那天,信箱里又收到父亲的明信片,其中说到要一本《毛主席诗词》.妈妈在写字台抽屉里找出一本红色塑料封皮的《毛主席诗词》简易小本子,让我与香烟、咸蛋、衣物等一起送去.     

油画《毛主席去安源》的幕后风波

油画《毛主席去安源》在＂文革＂时曾风靡一时,与样板戏、语录歌并列三大红色经典。据有关部门统计,该画共印9亿多张,超过了当时全国的总人口数,即全国平均每人一张还多,成为家喻户晓的名画,这在世界绘画史上也是绝无仅有。但就是这样一幅,     

毛泽东摄影师钱嗣杰的光影人生

翻开中国新闻史,人们不能忽略一个名字——钱嗣杰,原新华社摄影部高级记者,一位曾当过毛泽东主席专职摄影师的老人.从1946年参军拿起照相机的那刻起,他的名字就与新中国的风云历史紧密地联系在了一起.《解放军下江南》、《朝鲜停战谈判签字》、《周恩来总理出席万隆会议》、《毛主席畅游长江》、《邓小平副总理访美》等,透过他的镜头,人们看到了共和国的风云历史,看到了毛泽东、周恩来、邓小平等伟人的风采……     

新华社的早期业务刊物——《通讯》

抗日战争初期,新华社在延安就创办了一本新闻业务刊物。这就是1939年12月1日诞生的,由毛泽东同志题写刊名的《通讯》杂志。 最近,笔者访问了新华社原副社长缪海棱同志,他回顾了《通讯》创办的前前后后。 1939年3月,新华社由清凉山迁到杨家岭,与中共中央机关报《新中华报》(《解放日报前身》)的同志一起分住在杨家岭后山沟的两排窑洞里。杨家岭是当时党中央、毛主席的所在地。在工作之余,新华社和《新中华报》的同志     

贫下中农读一辈子毛主席的书

毛主席的好接班人英明领袖华主席,把全国人民盼望已久的《毛泽东选集》第五卷,以最快的速度,最好的质量出版发行了。《毛泽东选集》第五卷的出版发行,这是全党、全军、全国各族人民政治生活中的一件大事,也是马克思主义发展史上的一件大事。我们大队是英明领袖华主席视察和劳动过的地方,一九七○年七月二十九日,华主席来到我们大队视察,和我们一起参加劳动。他谆谆教导我们要认真学习毛主席著作,坚持走社会主义道路。我们贫下中农绝不辜负华主席的期望,一定要读一辈子毛主席的书,干一辈子革命。四月十五日,我们大队红旗飘扬,锣鼓喧天,迎接金光闪闪的《毛泽东选集》第五卷,大家手捧红宝书,禁不住热泪盈眶。并激动地说:以华主席为首的党中央粉碎“四人帮”后才六个月,就把《毛泽东选集》第五卷送到了贫下中农和全国人民手里。华主席为首的党中央作出的每项决定,每个部署,都闪耀着毛主席革命路线的光辉,代表了亿万人民的根本利益和共同心愿。《毛泽东选集》第五卷是我们反修防修,继续革命的强大思想武器。我们学习《毛泽东选集》第五卷,深深怀念伟大领袖毛主席,无限热爱英明领袖华主席。我们贫下中农永远不会忘记,在那豺狼当道,魔鬼横行的万恶的旧社会,是伟大领袖毛主席、战无不胜的     

怀念与敬意——回忆市委领导对《北京日报》的关怀

回忆十年动乱前我在《北京日报》工作的日子,我就想起了党中央、市委领导对《北京日报》的细致关怀,心中充满着对他们的怀念与敬意。《北京日报》的报头是毛主席写的。毛主席、周总理还对《北京日报》上登的新闻报道、漫画、小品文、短评等提出过意见,有表扬有批评。刘少奇同志亲自来报社谈思想讨论的结论。这都是对我们的鼓舞和鞭策。本文主要回忆市委领导同志对《北京日报》的领导与关     

纵横八万里 上下五千年——《地图上的故事》丛书品读

《地图上的故事》丛书，脱胎于中央电视台大型电视系列片，由《地图上的故事——地域篇》、《地图上的故事——历史篇》、《地图上的故事——知识篇》构成，它以全新的方式将历史与现实相结合，地理与人文相结合，充分展示了中国文化的博大精深以及我国悠久的历史文化。书中配有600余幅地图，每一个故事都是由一张张小小的地图展开的，每一幅地图就是一个小故事，图与故事紧密地联系在一起，极大地丰富了书中的文化内涵，以其独特的图文并茂方式，使得全书具有相得益彰、珠联璧合的感觉。该书既有史学的严谨性，又不乏小说和故事的可读性，正可谓寓教于乐、润物无声。     

宁夏日报发表毛主席题写的《清平乐》(六盘山)

在今年的九月三十日——中华人民共和国诞生十二周年纪念日的前夕,《宁夏日报》以第一版整版的篇幅,刊载了毛主席亲笔题写的一首词——《清平乐》(六盘山)。在这首词的下面,《宁夏日报》加了一个《编者注》,全文如下: “这是伟大领袖毛主席应我区同志的请求而题写的词。我们看了毛主席的字,读了毛主席的词,心中感到格外的亲切和无尚的光荣。这首振奋人心、万户传颂的词——《清平乐》,原是一九三五年九月毛     

Politicking for the Public Library

ABSTRACT

In today's current political environment raising support for millage renewals, bond campaigns or even millage continuations for public libraries is affected by national politics, and a tendency towards tax aversion on principle across the country. The lessons we can learn from the governing boards of small and rural public libraries are worth raising up to a greater national consciousness. Board governance, community consciousness, and facilities management are clear and logical tools that elected boards of public libraries can use to politick for support of libraries.     

British Writings on Romania: From Travel Accounts to Studies

This article surveys a sample of sources of the information about Romania available to British readers in nineteenth century British newspapers and periodicals. It traces first contacts between the Romanian lands and Britain after the union of the principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia in 1859, then after their independence from the Ottoman Empire. The article highlights an increased Romanian interest in British periodicals, which reported and reviewed Romanian literature and scholarship. The article concludes that nineteenth century British newspapers and periodicals offer a great variety and wealth of new material previously unavailable or unknown to researchers. It also states that only a portion of a large quantity of this material has been indexed and is therefore available via the bibliographic sources mentioned in the article. The author argues for the need of a new and updated British-Romanian bibliography, which can draw on new online resources offering access to thousands of new newspapers and periodical records.     

Architectures of Knowledge and Literary Tradition: A History of the Almanac in Croatia

ABSTRACT

The history of the almanac in Croatia is reconstructed through primary research in bibliographic and archival sources. The almanac is a vehicle for knowledge communication in informal contexts, engaging both oral tradition and literary forms traceable to medieval literacy and ways of structuring knowledge. The history of the almanac in Croatia reflects the changing context of the book trade, literacy, and the evolution of language. Four main stages are identified: (1) the beginning of the annual almanac in the seventeenth century; astrological almanacs reflecting the sensibility of the Baroque period; (2) the Enlightenment's stimulation of almanac publishing in the spirit of contemporary secular reforms in agriculture and education; (3) nineteenth-and twentieth-century almanac trade, showing complex and overlapping networks for the production, distribution and appropriation of printed almanacs;(4) roughly the end of World War II, when the almanac slowly moved out of the role of a popular mass medium and into specialized niches represented by regional, diaspora, and religious almanacs.     

Slavic Approval Plans: What Works and What Doesn't

ABSTRACT

The paper looks at library approval plans for material published in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian countries from the selector's point of view. Reasons why a selector would or would not want one are examined. Success with approval plans requires monitoring receipts, as well as good and ongoing communication among the selector, the acquistions department, and the vendor. A preliminary list of vendors offering approval plans for the countries of the region appears in the appendix.     

How Digital Content Resellers are Impacting Trade Book Publishing

Some key questions for publishers in today’s market are: Could Amazon’s recent merger and acquisitions strategy create a disruptive or paradigm shifting business model in the publishing industry? Do their recent actions post mergers and acquisitions illustrate a predicable pattern of behaviour that publishers can strategize around? This paper will explore these questions and look at some of the possible reasons behind Amazon’s business practices and the possible consequences to publishers.     

Germany's New Culture of Welcome—Our Libraries are an Essential Part of it

ABSTRACT

German authorities are expecting more than 1 million refugees by the end of 2015. These people come to Germany to seek protection and assistance and to build a new life, therefore it is important to welcome them and to assist them in their integration as soon as possible. This situation creates a versatile and perfectly fitting opportunity for cultural and educational programs, including libraries, which can play a vital role in this integration process. The key to integration is the knowledge of the German language, and the most important challenge now is to teach the necessary language skills to as many asylum-seekers as possible.     

Syndicating Rich Bibliographic Metadata Using MODS and RSS

Abstract

Many libraries use RSS to syndicate information about their collections to users. A survey of 65 academic libraries revealed their most common use for RSS is to disseminate information about library holdings, such as lists of new acquisitions. Even though typical RSS feeds are ill suited to the task of carrying rich bibliographic metadata, great potential exists for developing applications that can exploit metadata exposed to Web services via RSS. Using the MODS metadata format, entire catalog records can be seamlessly embedded in RSS 2.0 feeds. Existing tools, such as Library of Congress Java toolkits and XSLT stylesheets, can facilitate this process, while a new XSLT stylesheet may be used to create the RSS feeds complete with MODS records. As an example of the added functionality these MODS/RSS feeds can offer, records from a MODS-enriched RSS feed can be ingested into a non-RSS application such as Zotero. As more emerging library technologies use Web services architectures to handle data objects, the ability to syndicate catalog records will become more critical to providing innovative library Web services.     

由“资源集聚”向“需求导向”转变——对武汉科技信息服务平台建设的思考

为进一步提升武汉科技信息共享服务平台使用效率,本文从平台资源建设、资源应用、供需对接方式和供需特点等方面分析了武汉科技信息资源服务现状;基于需求和利用的角度,结合平台管理实践和走访用户、问卷调查等研究方法,从信息资源需求主体和平台自身建设管理两个维度,找出制约科技资源供需对接的主要因素;以市场化和制度化为创新理念,从政策创新、机制创新、市场化服务、环境营造、人才培养等方面提出平台建设由“资源集聚”向“需求导向”转变的对策建议.     

Selling Women on PDAs from “Simply Palm” to “Audrey”: How Moore's Law Met Parkinson's Law in the Kitchen

This essay investigates key moments in the history of personal digital assistant (PDA) marketing to women. Analyzing promotional texts for three PDAs that received considerable press coverage from 1999 to 2001, this essay explores the cultural significance of the convergence of anxieties about women's place in the gendered division of labor with the computer industry's changing marketing imperatives. Drawing on an array of promotional texts, including news articles, press releases, promotional Web sites, and ads appearing in newspapers and magazines, this paper tells the story of how the computer industry aimed to sell smaller, faster computing devices to women while promising to mediate and thus reproduce women's overwork as paid and familial laborers. After experimenting with the PDA as a sexy fashionable gadget for working women, marketers approached women as mothers with “Audrey,” an Internet appliance designed for the kitchen.     

Communicating With Bank Stakeholders During Recession: Why It's Important,Who Is Doing It,and How to Stay in the Loop

This study explores the attitudes and actions of bank managers toward communication spending during recession. Results of this study indicate that organizational leaders cut communication spending early during recession and also erroneously rely on the bank's financials to mitigate irrational customer withdrawals. This research is used to illustrate the need for public librarians to meet the needs of bank stakeholders when their institution ceases to communicate during crises, for academic librarians to educate students in undergraduate and graduate programs regarding heightened information needs during recession, and for corporate librarians to understand a potential avenue for competitive advantage during recession.