机关档案室可以休矣

在我国,由于档案管理体制的决定,国家综合档案馆和机关档案室（不含企事业单位档案室,下同）虽然共存,并都有相应的服务职能,但长期以来一直存在一个很大的缺憾,而且,这个缺憾在提升档案界整体社会地位上所造成的后果又是非常致命的。我们通过机关档案室和国家档案馆的服务功能比较,就可以很清楚地看到这个遗憾。我们一直说,档案工作要为现实社会服务,而我们的职能又是怎样界定这种服务的呢。且看：机关档案室为现实服务。但不能为社会服务,仅有的现实服务不过是为本单位的现实服务,     

机关也应向社会开展现行文件提供利用工作

目前，各级国家综合档案馆正在普遍开展已公开现行件利用工作。笔认为，机关档案室也应开展现行件利用工作。 一、机关档案室应当向社会提供档案利用 1、机关档案室向社会提供档案利用是法定的要求长期以来，我们在观念上总是认为机关档案室主要是为本机关提供档案服务。在我国加入世界贸易组织、实行政府信息公开制度和开展现行件利用工作等背景下，机关档案利用工作应当有所突破，要依法有序地开展向社会提供档案查询服务工作。     

试论档案学基础理论对机关档案室开放服务的指导意义

机关档案室开放服务是指机关档案室向档案原形成机关以外的其它机关以及个人利用者提供档案信息，允许通过一定的手续利用档案，从而满足社会利用需求的工作。机关档案室的开放服务是在档案工作理论发展的基础上，以及政务信息公开的热潮中历史地被提上议事日程的。     

从档案生命价值的演进看过渡期档案的开发

一、现状 在我国,整个档案管理体系由档案室和档案馆两级构成.<机关档案工作条例>第四条对档案室的职责这样规定:"负责管理本机关的全部档案,积极提供利用,为机关各项工作服务,并为党和国家积累档案史料".<中华人民共和国档案法实施办法>第九条第三款对档案室的职能表述为:"统一管理本单位的档案,并按照规定向档案馆移交档案";第十条对其应承担的职责任务是这样陈述的:"收集和接收本馆保管范围内对国家和社会有保存价值的档案;对所保存的档案严格按照规定整理和保管;采取各种形式开发档案资源,为社会利用档案资源提供服务".     

数字档案室,机关档案工作新起点

《数字档案室建设指南》征求意见稿,将数字档案室定义为:"机关(团体和其他社会组织)在履行职能过程中,运用现代信息技术对机关电子档案和数字化档案信息进行采集、加工、存储、管理,并通过不同类型网络提供共享利用和有限公共档案信息服务的档案信息集成管理平台。"     

试论档案学基本理论对机关档案室开放服务的指导意义

机关档案室开放服务是指机关档案室向档案原形成机关以外的其它机关以及个人利用者提供档案信息,允许通过一定的手续利用档案,从而满足社会利用需求的工作。机关档案室的开放服务是在档案工作理论发展的基础上,以及政务信息公开的热潮中历史地被提上议事日程的。笔者认为,机关档案室开放服务符合我国档案学基本理论,可以在现有档案学基本理论的指导下进行。下面针对机关档案室开放服务涉及的“文件生命周期理论”、“档案双重价值理论”、“档案文件的利用与保密理论”分别进行阐述。一、“文件生命周期理论”及其对机关档案室开放服务的指…     

试论文件中心与机关档案室的关系

该针对目前档案学界关于件中心与机关档案室的争论，阐述了件中心与机关档案室的相互关系，并认为件中心既可弥补机关档案室职能之不足，也不会对机关档案室形成威胁。     

加强机关事业单位档案室管理的思考

随着社会的发展和现代信息技术水平的提高,档案室管理作为一项软件指标成为了衡量一个单位整体管理水平的有效参数.正规化的档案室管理可使其职能充分的发挥出来,从而影响到档案的开发利用和为机关全面建设服务的能力.     

机关数字化档案室建设谈

近年来,各级档案馆迅速行动起来,对馆藏档案进行数字化处理,使档案馆的数字化建设取得了很大的进展。然而,作为档案馆信息主要来源的机关档案室,虽然现行文件的数字化已基本得到普及,但是,其他各类档案的数字化工作却没有很好地发展。从而影响了各机关档案的开发利用,使档案难以迅速、准确地为机关各项工作服务。因此,我们不但要重视机关档案室档案数据化工作,而且还要加快步伐,使机关档案室的数字化工作能够适应信息化社会的发展。一、数字化档案室建设的必要性相对于传统的档案手工管理而言,所谓的数字化档案室是以系统论等现代管理科学为…     

转型期的机关档案工作

“档案室是各级机关、部队、人民团体、企业、事业单位负责管理本机关形成的全部档案,并提供档案为机关领导和各项工作服务的机构,是机关工作的助手和不可缺少的环节,是国家档案事业的基础和基层细胞。”〔1〕各级地方国家综合档案馆的馆藏绝大部分来自同级机关档案室。机关档案工作直接关系到各级国家综合档案馆馆藏档案的数量与质量。随着社会的转型,政府职能转变,机关内部与外部的工作环境都发生了变化。机关档案工作同样也面临着许多新情况、新问题。为了解当前机关档案室工作面临的这些新情况、新问题,推进我省机关档案室工作的发展,笔…     

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.