From the Majors to the Minors: Playing the Game as the Rules Are Changed

In Australia no library school at either professional or paraprofessional level offers a course to meet the needs of serials librarians. In the absence of such provision, this paper summarizes the findings of research on serials courses in the U.S.A. and Britain. It highlights the dissatisfaction of practitioners with training in this area and the failure of serials training to meet the needs of the profession; it indicates that a survey in Australia would probably produce similar findings. It discusses the content of librarianship courses-both the core curriculum and a specialized serials librarlanship curriculum-with the objective of outlining a professionally relevant serials librarianship course for Australia, drawing on experiences such as those at Loughborough and Columbia Universities. Finally, the paper specifies the aims and objectives of the proposed Australian course in serials librarianship, and outlines the content of thirteen suggested components.     

ANDREW OSBORN

An examination is made of the components of the serials librarian's job, and an attempt is made to show how serials librarianship has developed over the past decade according to precepts laid down by Osborn in his famous book on serials. Warning is given against the tendency to relegate serials responsibility to the larger umbrella technical services unit that has gained recent favor.     

ANDREW OSBORN AND THE LIBRARY WORLD OF HIS TIME

Andrew Osborn brought remarkable personal characteristics from Australia to American librarianship, where they were greatly enhanced at two great libraries, then carried back to Sydney, Australia, and later into library science teaching. Author of a crucially influential paper in the technical processing of this century and of a massively authoritative book on the handling of serials, participant in a series of major projects in librarianship, immersed in international librarianship, Osborn looms as a major influence in a generation of outstanding librarians.     

Serials Librarianship in Nigeria, 1975-1985

A study is made of developments in serials librarianship in Nigeria during the past decade. Evidence shows that serials collections in Nigerian acadamic and special libraries are generally small. However there was considerable growth in the collections during the period. Efforts are made through current awareness services to assist users to exploit the collections. There is adequate arrangement for bibliographic control of serials though this is impaired by the ignorance of publishers. Various efforts at interlibrary cooperation, production of union lists of serials and automation have not yielded very fruitful results.     

Serials Organization

A revolution in serials work has occurred during the last decade as libraries have moved from manual operations to the age of automation. For economic and technological reasons, a renewed interest in the organization of serials activities has developed, and there is debate between those who favor continuing the separate serials department (organization by form) and those who favor merging serials activities into other departments (organization by function). In this study, the views of each school of thought are considered. The conclusion is reached that serials specialists must organize, anticipate and plan for further organizational changes.     

Education Trifecta: Win Attention,Place Knowledge,Show Understanding

Continuing education for librarians and educating library school students in the areas of technical services are topics often discussed within the field of librarianship. The presenters in this session provided alternatives to “on the job” education for technical services professionals. Two presenters provided strategies for instructing an online continuing education course on acquisitions. The third presenter shared information about the development and teaching of a serials course at a library school.     

An interview with Marcia Tuttle,head, Serials Department,University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

This interview was conducted on July 7 and 8, 1994. Marcia Tuttle talks about the beginning of the Newsletter on Serials Pricing Issues, NASIG, and Aqueduct; her career; and serials librarianship.     

Straight from the Horse's Mouth: New and Not-So-New Serialists Share Experience

Presenters Susan Davis of the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, and Sarah E. Morris of Reed Smith, LLP, led an informal discussion of past and future trends in serials librarianship. By comparing their perspectives as new and mid-career librarians, they illuminated various topics related to work with serials and electronic resources, including the skill sets required for e-resource management, users' demands for online access, and generational attitudes within the profession.     

Serials Management at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library

Serials management at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library today reflects many of the trends evident in academic librarianship over the last decade, as well as internal trends toward decentralization and a regrouping of professional and nonprofessional tasks. New challenges for serials control face the Library's staff and its administration in an era of financial retrenchment.     

SERIALS DEPARTMENTS

Because tasks and materials related to serials processing and use are often dispersed in a library, serials specialists must develop personal influence strategies and use informal communication systems that cross organizational lines and boundaries. In the absence of a serials department, therefore, serials specialists and informal serials communication systems will continue to exist. There is wide agreement that informal communication systems do emerge spontaneously in organizations and that individuals without formally conferred authority may use various types of personal influence strategies to accomplish organizational objectives. While serials processing and public service could be most efficiently handled through a serials department, informal communication systems, utilized by serials specialists, will develop if such a department does not exist. In determining if a serials department has a place in a particular library organization, library planners should be concerned about natural communication channels and should, in addition, try to identify individuals who can communicate effectively across organizational barriers.     

电子期刊资源组织与整理的探讨

通过网络对11所高校图书馆电子期刊的现有组织方式进行调研和深入分析,提出有 效组织和整理电子期刊的方式。     

Serials management: integration and enhancement through reorganization

It is broadly acknowledged that effective serials management supports and requires a close link between the staff in technical and public services. More recently, new technological opportunities combined with changes in library organization and administration have greatly facilitated this linkage. The nature and structure of a library’s organization can aid in and benefit from this connectedness. Departments in the University of Louisville’s public and technical services areas began a cooperative effort to maintain serials records in the online catalog in the early 1990s. With reorganization in the late 1990s, a new team structure emerged which further facilitated this effort. In return, this cooperation and the tools that it has created support the teams in a new user-centered approach to serials management.     

Appraising the Community of Practice at a Hospital Library System Using a Critical Librarianship Lens

Abstract

The Kaiser Permanente health sciences librarians created inter-regional policies to standardize and guide the work of all librarians across regions. In response to the larger organization’s emphasis on promoting diversity and equity in healthcare and the workplace, the library policies have evolved over time to include aspects of critical librarianship in the information services that the Kaiser Permanente librarians provide to their organization. The article describes how the inter-regional group of hospital librarians provide information services through a critical librarianship lens and provides examples of how other health sciences librarians can incorporate these principles to expand their services.     

THE THREE CAREERS OF ANDREW OSBORN

Andrew D. Osborn has had three separate, successful careers. From 1920 to 1962 he practiced as a librarian in Australia and the United States earning an international reputation in cataloguing and serials work. From 1962 to 1971 he taught full-time in library schools in the United States and Canada. From 1971 to 1977 he operated as an antiquarian bookseller in Sydney, Australia. This article comments especially on the high significance for Australian librarianship of the four short years he spent at the University of Sydney 1958-62, at the end of his first career.     

民国时期的图书馆协会及其活动编年

民国初期,新图书馆运动兴起,图书馆事业发展迅速,促成了一批地方性图书馆协会的设立。作为全国性的图书馆组织,中华图书馆协会也应运而生。这些图书馆协会设立后开展了一系列活动,为民国图书馆事业的发展做出了重大的贡献。本文通过搜集晚清民国期刊全文数据库中期刊、档案、报纸及今人著作、论文、资料汇编等史料,以时间顺序对民国的图书馆协会及其主要活动进行梳理、考证,希冀对民国图书馆协会研究有一定的参考价值。     

Administrative Perspectives on Dynamic Collections and Effective Interlibrary Loan

One of the signposts of 21st century librarianship is the shifting paradigm to an increasingly dynamic collection to serve the resource needs of our patrons. Interlibrary loan is an integral library service for this model. This article focuses on key facets of successful practices and administrative issues that maximize efficient resource sharing, particularly regarding nonreturnable materials (articles/book chapters). Issues regarding tools, staffing, accurate and informative serials holding information, deflection policies, embargoes and database licensing are identified.     

影响20世纪中国图书馆史学研究的八位史家及其代表著作--谨以此文恭贺图书馆史学家谢灼华教授70华诞

近年来，中国现代图书馆事业百年纪念活动热潮高涨，图书馆史学研究引起广泛关注，文章首先从学科角度对图书馆史学的概念、特点等进行了相关的论述，继而从国际化和图书馆史学中国研究现状两方面，对中国图书馆史学研究的重要意义、成就、现状及问题等相关问题作了进一步的阐述。在此基础上，对在20世纪对中国图书馆史学研究有卓越成就和贡献的八位图书馆史家及其代表著作进行了详细的评述。     

Crisis Librarianship: An Examination of Online Librarianship Roles in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic

This study surveyed the members of a professional library organization for their perceptions of their online librarianship role. In particular, the survey sought to examine any change in online librarianship roles after March 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns. Participants were administered a survey comprised of both quantitative and qualitative response options. Findings present a nuanced professional environment post-lockdown in which individual job duties largely remained the same; however participants reported increased demands stemming from workplace issues, including attrition and lack of resources.     

关于中国图书馆事业未来发展走向的几个问题

数字图书馆是我国图书馆未来的发展方向。本世纪初 ,我国图书馆的发展会呈现多维状态 ;读者阅读需求呈强劲增长态势 ;乡镇和社区图书馆会有更大发展。世纪之初 ,我国图书馆事业将面临来自各种信息机构、海量信息资源、图书馆本质特征的主体功能异化 ,以及经费短缺等诸方面的挑战。参考文献 6。     

Narrowing the Gap:

The traditional library organization for over forty years has been divided into technical services and public services. The age of automation, however, is bringing these two areas much closer together, and in some large academic libraries, the technical services librarian and the public services librarian are the same person. The work done in serials acquisitions and collection development is now available online in many libraries. Several libraries also have automated serials control and cataloging capabilities. With the advent of online access to serials, reference, interlibrary loan and library instruction services have simplified the work demands for the reference librarian. This conclusion suggests that cooperation between technical services and public services is the logical solution to provide the best possible service to the library patron.