Adaptation to electronic mail

This investigation proposes and tests a path model of the adaptation process to electronic mail using the Komsky (1991) data. The results demonstrate that the user satisfaction and frequency of use are predicted by features consistent with the “media richness”; theory (Fulk, Steinfeld, Schmitz & Power, 1987). The model demonstrates some useful information on understanding the ability of an organization to smoothly and efficiently adopt an electronic mail system that employees will use frequently and satisfactorily.     

Getting started in evidence-based health care: a guide to resources

In response to the growing interest in evidence-based health care resources, available in print and electronically, a number of new "evidence-based" products have been developed to aid the busy clinician. This paper discusses resources that will assist the librarian in beginning the educational process about evidence-based health care, as well as building a network of informational links that will assist clinicians in evidence-based practice.     

Introducing critical race theory to archival discourse: Getting the conversation started

This article introduces the application of Critical Race Theory (CRT) to archival discourse in order to demonstrate how such a critical and analytical approach can help identify and raise social and professional consciousness of implicit racial bias. To demonstrate the potential of CRT, the paper discusses how the terminology and methodological structures of CRT might be applied to some aspects of archival theory and practice. The paper concludes that CRT can contribute to a diversified archival epistemology that can influence the creation of collective and institutional memories that impact underrepresented and disenfranchised populations and the development of their identities. This article opens with the title of West's classic monograph as the launching point because of its dual literary context, which frames ‘race matters’ as topic and affirmation. In this instance it is the affirmative statement that is the context confirming that race is worthy of the importance and focus this article stresses. See West (2001).     

The utility of electronic mail follow-ups for library research

This article compares the use of electronic mail (e-mail) and postal mail in the follow-up stage of a library research project using a mailed questionnaire. Results from the Internet-Related Technologies: Occupational Impacts for Government Documents Librarians survey show that e-mail as a follow-up method is as effective as postal mail in terms of both the speed and size of the survey response. Additional benefits and drawbacks of using e-mail during the follow-up stage are then discussed to illuminate the contexts in which each method may be most appropriate.     

高校图书馆开辟教学用书循环利用服务工作

高校图书馆在做好基础服务工作的同时,利用本馆人力资源和设备,开辟教学用书循环利用服务工作,使馆藏资源得到有效补充,为读者提供一个文献资源循环利用的平台,贯彻落实好发展循环经济政策,构建节约型高校图书馆。     

Fan mail to Liberace

Although stations, networks and advertisers spend hundreds of thousands of dollars annually on various rating services and audience measurement surveys, they often overlook a gold mine of voluntarily submitted feedback from their audience: the fan letter. It is true that the “pan” letter condemning a program often gets inordinate attention on decision‐making levels, but the run‐of‐the‐mill fan letter, if properly analyzed, can provide a wealth of information about the effect of a program upon its audience. Charles Winick is author of Taste and the Censor in Television (an Occasional Paper for the Fund for the Republic) and numerous articles in publications dealing with the mass media, such as Gazette, and the Journal op Broadcasting (“Censor and Sensibility,” Spring, 1962). Dr. Winick is a research psychologist and children's television program consultant at NBC who has taught and conducted research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Columbia University and New York University.     

Getting Started with COUNTER Statistics

A four hour post-conference workshop was offered on Counting Online Usage of Networked Electronic Resources (COUNTER) statistics with the goal of providing participants with hands-on experience working with and manipulating statistics. Best practices and methods were also discussed.     

The use of electronic mail at the reference desk: impact of a computer-mediated communication technology on librarian-client interactions

Commonly recognized computer-mediated communication (CMC) tools include virtual environments, bibliographic databases, listservers, newsgroups, group teleconferencing, interactive messaging systems and electronic mail. The use of these technologies in libraries has grown exponentially over the past decade. Electronic mail has emerged as an especially popular communication tool for librarians, and their colleagues and patrons. This paper explores the use of a reference department electronic mail service and its impact on reference services and librarian-client interactions. Several issues related to the implementation of CMC technologies are presented, including the maintenance and monitoring of reference electronic mail systems, the types of questions that are typically posted, and potential barriers to the implementation and use of reference e-mail.     

Electronic mail,privacy, and the electronic communications privacy act of 1986: Technology in search of law

This article is an examination of electronic privacy, specifically as it relates to e‐mail and related communication issues in the computer environment. Since the passage of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 (U.S. C. 18, §§ 2510–2711), there have been questions raised as to whether the Act goes far enough in protecting privacy.

The article attempts to clarify the status of e‐mail privacy under the ECPA. It examines current law and the paucity of definitive case law that until now has left the ECPA untested. A review of cases and literature suggests there is a gap in the existing ECPA that allows for potentially abusive electronic monitoring and interception of e‐mail, particularly in the workplace. “Electronic Mail, Privacy, and the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986: Technology in Search of Law.”;     

用VB设计有安全认证服务的E—mail程序

本文探讨了EMSTP协议工作原理和工作过程以及利用VB的winsock控件发送电子邮件的客户端程序的编写步骤。     

电子邮件在图书馆流通服务中的应用

电子邮件是人们沟通交流、共享信息的重要工具。本文介绍了电子邮件的特点,探讨了其在图书馆流通服务工作中的具体应用,并指出其存在的不足之处及对策。