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.     

Serials Automation

This is a review of the literature and a selective, annotated bibliography on serials automation from 1976 to 1984 with an emphasis on recent English language publications. The bibliography is subdivided by topic: bibliographies; reviews and collections; bibliographic control, including ISBD(S), ISDS, ISSN, NSDP, CONSER, and AACR2; serials control, including chcck-in, claiming, binding and routing; systems and vendors; standards; union catalogs; fiscal control, and the organization of serials work. The selection of 150 citations highlights important events and trends and describes some lesser known developments. This review is written from the point of view of the working technical services librarian. Subjects for further research are suggested.     

试论乔好勤目录学思想

从目录学理论研究、目录学史研究、专科目录学研究、目录学教育研究四个方面概述了我国当代目录学家乔好勤的目录学思想和目录工作成就,指出乔好勤注重目录学研究方法尤其是目录学史研究方法的创新,注重目录学致用性的实践,为我国当代目录学研究和目录工作事业作出了突出的贡献.     

按照FRBR模型构造书目检索体系的思路

FRBR模型应用是当前数字图书馆研究的热点,是文献机构解决海量数字资源及多类型元数据检索的理论基础和应用模型。但在数字图书馆应用层面,利用FRBR的理论框架构造书目检索体系还在探索中,本文通过对国家图书馆典型元数据实例的分析,提出FRBR模型应用的思路与方法。     

再论是分类法史，还是书目史？——关于商榷的商榷

主要讨论和阐述了四个问题：①关于分类法的本质；②关于中国分类法的源与流；③书目分类体系不等于书目分类法；④图书分类目录不等于图书分类法。     

国图国际组织与外国政府出版物组自动化进程十年回顾

国际组织与外国政府出版物组是国家图书馆一个集采访、编目、阅览、典藏于一体的综合性科组.论文通过对近十年来国际组织与外国政府出物组的自动化建设进程做一个回顾和总结,从一个侧面反映了整个国家图书馆的自动化建设历程.     

Feminism and social change: women's place in Taiwanese newspapers and public opinion

This study used a content analysis of editorial articles to explore the portrayal of gender in women's pages of Taiwanese newspapers between 1975 and 2009. In addition to topical themes and editorial format, we focused on how women's pages present political messages in terms of the topics addressed, style of argumentation, methods of challenging traditional gender roles, and the promotion of provocative actions. We compared the content analysis data with social development indicators and public opinion polls in the contexts of the evolution of the market and the women's movement in Taiwan. We found that in the early stages of the women's movement, the women's pages mainly played the role of shaping a collective identity among the female public. During the postfeminist period, the women's pages mainly address social problems rooted in the domestic realm and provide self-development advice.     

“To Save Them from the Dangers to Their Faith”

Abstract

This article explores the history of Catholic women's colleges and former women's colleges in the United States, with specific focus on student life in the mid-twentieth century. In the peak year 1956-1957, 42,900 young Catholic (and sometimes non-Catholic) women attended about 116 colleges, a significant proportion of the higher educational sector. These colleges helped acculturate many children of Irish, German, Eastern European and Italian families to middle-class American society, at the same time creating a specifically female and Catholic culture on the college campuses. This culture, which was characterized by the ideals of femininity, religion, and service, can be reconstructed through materials in the college archives: for example, through minutes of faculty committees and student organizations, records of college events, photographs, audio-visual material, scrapbooks, catalogs, and student publications. The archives of Catholic women's colleges are important in that they document a little-studied area of American life- Catholic women's culture-and furthermore show how it has changed and evolved up to the contemporary period.     

The Development and Current Status of Authority Control at the National Library of China

ABSTRACT

This article gives a thorough introduction to authority control at the National Library of China from several perspectives including bibliographic services, the online cataloging center, acquisitions, and the library's integrated library system. It introduces the objectives, principles, applications, solution to the problem, and concludes with comments and insights on the issues surrounding the proposed NLC authority control system. This article also discusses the importance of authority control for access.     

A Survey of RDA in Asia and a Vision for Future Development

Abstract

At the end of 2017, the National Library of China (NLC) was invited by the RDA Board to become the National Institution Representative for Asia. It is a good opportunity for the NLC to be more visible and to contribute to the international community. However, RDA promotion is a demanding task considering the economic and professional conditions in Asia. In this article, we (1) summarize RDA study and practice in China especially NLC’s advances, (2) analyze the survey of Asian libraries conducted by the NLC in 2018 with regard to RDA, and (3) discuss RDA promotion initiatives undertaken by the NLC.     

Quebec's Public Libraries: An Overview of Their History and Current Situation

This article begins with a brief historical review of the establishment of the first public libraries in the province of Quebec and the difficulties and challenges they faced. The Catholic Church played a significant role in library evolution. The article then relates the situation of public libraries in Quebec today. After analyzing their current levels of performance, the article concludes that, although Quebec's libraries have improved, they continue to be held back compared to other Canadian public libraries.     

试论面向数字书目控制和数字资源控制的数字目录学

本文介绍了国内外数字目录学研究的进展,提出数字目录学的两大分支即数字化书目控制和数字资源控制,作为数字目录学的基本框架,并对数字目录学的进一步发展提出了一些建设性意见。     

构建知识地图——论现代目录学理论的发展与创新

20世纪90年代以来目录学发展的社会环境发生了根本性的变化，技术化（自动化、数字化、网络化、虚拟化）和知识化（精确化、个性化、综合化、多样化）是新时期目录学发展过程中两大最明显的特征。目录的本质是知识地图，目录工作的使命是绘制和构建知识地图，目录学是研究知识地图绘制、构建和利用理论与方法的一门学科。用“知识地图学”来替代目录学，是传统目录学的新生。     

Cooperative Materials Purchasing Among School and Public Libraries:

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图书情报领域中的交叉科学研究:进展与展望

面对具有复杂性、综合性和交融性的重大问题,单一学科的理论和方法往往难以对其进行全方位的深入探讨和系统建构,交叉科学研究日益成为解决人类发展重大难题不可或缺的研究范式。本文基于交叉科学研究相关论文的著录项信息,呈现了当前图书情报领域中的交叉科学研究在国家、机构、作者、期刊等不同维度的基本概貌,并运用耦合分析探究了交叉科学研究的主题分布情况。系统分析交叉科学的主要研究进展,有利于从整体上把握其发展脉络,挖掘当前研究的热点与重点,对于推动我国的交叉科学研究具有一定的启示与借鉴意义。     

Negotiating fragmented women's news: state,market and feminism in contemporary Chinese media

This study aims to explain the reasons for the transformation of women's news in contemporary China. It concludes that in comparison with women news's in the Maoist period, present-day women's news is represented in a fragmented way. This article analyses the differences among the individual, professional, and institutional aspects in news production, while emphasizing the complicated interaction among feminism, state, and market to illuminate the reasons behind women's news transformation. Due to the immanent masculinity of both state and market, feminism in China has to face a state–market complex, that is, double pressure. Comparing with state and market, the influence from feminism to journalism is quite weak and there is a long way to go before feminism realizes its own agenda for media transformation.     

Knowledge and Attitude of Women to HIV/AIDS in a Farming Community in Southwestern Nigeria: Challenges for Public Libraries

The HIV/AIDS epidemic is one of the major setbacks to the achievement of the 2015 millennium development targets in Africa, generally, and Nigeria, in particular, where it is the leading cause of death. In terms of age and gender distribution, the most severely affected are sexually active females in their most economically reproductive years. A greater percentage of the Nigerian population lives in rural areas where there is low access to health information. This study assesses the knowledge level and attitudes of women in a farming community to HIV/AIDS, and suggests intervention strategies by the public libraries to bridge the knowledge gap on HIV/AIDS. This article suggests that public libraries as custodians of knowledge should play a significant role in transmitting information about how to prevent and control HIV/AIDS.     

Serials Acquisitions:

No abstract available for this article.