留下成长的轨迹

今年的儿童节,周婷送给儿子的礼物是两个日记本.一本里面密密麻麻记载了儿子出生这八年来的成长历程,第一个微笑、第一声呀呀学语、第一次蹒跚学步,点点滴滴的进步倾注了这位年轻母亲无限的爱和欣慰.另一本是空白的,周婷说这是传给儿子的接力棒.从此以后,孩子的每一步足迹都需要他用自己的笔、自己的目光、自己的感受记录下来.     

Reflections on Maturity:

The introduction to this new volume on bibliographic instruction (BI) explores the progress, status, and challenge of BI over the past decade and on into the future.     

Reflections on Youth:

Originally written as the introduction to The Reference Librarian No. 10, 1984, "Library Instruction and Reference Services," Ruth Ann Fraley's "Overview" is as pertinent now, in 1995, as it was more than ten years ago, in 1984.     

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分析现行分类排架的优缺点,提出随着图书馆事业的发展,应加强排架理论和方法的研究。     

Keeping Up: Building Your Indigenous Collection

ABSTRACT

This article provides practical tips on how to build your personal collection of materials on Indigenous topics. Before taking steps in acquiring content, consider the place of print and electronic material in your life as a librarian and Indigenous person. Rephrase foundational documents such as collection development policies, Ranganathan's laws of library science, and Saricks' appeal factors in ways that reflect your Indigenous worldview. Review the steps you take and might take to build this collection, starting with assessing what resources you already have access to, and develop your list of ten authors to watch.     

Leadership Reflections: Leadership Paradoxes

Leadership faces a number of paradoxes that can be challenging and confusing, particularly as individuals take on new leadership roles. Employees want leaders to be decisive but participatory in decision making, focused on big pictures but contribute to detailed discussions, and engage but not micromanage. It is confusing as mixed messages are given to leaders and the opinions of employees vary, creating a situation in which it is difficult for leaders to fully understand employee expectations. Leaders not only need to understand these paradoxes but develop methods to balance employee expectations and communication strategies that help employees appreciate the balancing act that each leader must develop.     

Leadership Reflections: Advisory Bodies

An important component of librarianship is the connection between a library and its community. Advisory committees or boards are a valuable tools for a leader to manage this connection and provides a leader with external expertise that can make a significant impact on a library community. However, advisory bodies need to be established for specific purposes and require a significant time commitment to ensure that members are contributing in a meaningful way. There are cautions in working with advisory bodies but the benefits of tapping into the potential benefits are worth the time and effort in working with community volunteers.     

Leadership Reflections: Parent Leadership

Abstract

There are many types of leadership but little known is parent leadership – how parental skills are applied to the workplace. Libraries depend more on soft skills that facilitate work and advance an organization. How individuals work together in an organization is just as critical as the work they accomplish. This depends on the ability of employees to develop and utilize their soft skills complementing their technical skills and expertise. As leaders focus more on behavior, they may tap into their parenting techniques in order to coach, guide, direct, and resolve conflicts. While a leader may not be able to ground an employee or take away their TV watching privileges, they might find themselves resorting to similar techniques in their management.     

Leadership Reflections: Organizational Culture

Abstract

Organizations function as small societies with their unique behaviors, patterns, and communication. Organizational culture describes how individuals work within libraries and the patterns, assumptions, values, attitudes, and behavior that help an organization to operate within its environment and achieve, or not achieve, its mission. Effective leaders must understand the operational framework of their libraries in order to be successful in managing or to change the culture in support of strategic goals. Changing the culture of an organization is difficult and a long-term process with a realistic understanding of the current behaviors and a determined vision for how an organization should work. There are some specific strategies that may aid leaders in transforming a library culture into a productive and effective set of behaviors that will contribute to a library’s success.     

Leadership Reflections: Organizational Language

Leadership language communicates more than words. Leaders are able to use the power of language to not only articulate an organizational vision but to create excitement and support around that vision. Library leaders can model organizational values through speech strengthening a written policy into practice. Organizational culture is difficult to change but leaders can counter negative and deceptive messages into productive statements that help employees move forward to understand and embrace library strategic goals. How a leader chooses to use language to articulate a vision, advance organizational values, and to change organizational culture is critical. Ignoring language opportunities will hinder not only leader success but organizational success as well.     

Reflections on the record

This article, based upon a presentation delivered at Simmons College in March 1995, offers the perspective of the former Acting Archivist of the United States on the internationalization of archival management, change, archival education and preparation for the future.Editor's Note: Contrary to the usual policy of the journal, we decided to reprint Dr. Peterson s Samuel Lazerow Memorial Lecture delivered at Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts, March 14, 1995, with minimal copy editing. The paper provides a unique and important perspective and does offer insights into preparation for the future.     

Growing a NACO Program: Ingredients for Success

ABSTRACT

What factors are critical to the success of expanding a NACO program? The University of Florida Libraries' experience with NACO, the Name Authority arm of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC), points to some important variables. As members of NACO, institutions contribute name and series authorities to the national authority database, which greatly increases the pool of available authorities for libraries to use. In 1987, we became a member of the NACO program, and faithfully submitted a few hundred authorities each year for nine years. In 1996, things began to change as we refocused our program objectives, and our submissions grew, tripling by 1998/99. The dynamics that created this environment of change are instructive for librarians and managers hoping to breath new life into existing programs.     

Growing the Profession: Mentoring Undergraduates for Librarianship

Since 2007, Brigham Young University Library has provided a paid internship program for undergraduates that allows them to work with a librarian in an academic setting to help them decide if they wish to pursue a master's degree in Library Science. This article describes the internship program and provides results of surveys given to both interns and library mentors regarding their expectations and outcomes. In a new addition to the program, interns now meet with multiple librarians to gain a broad understanding of library work and how different library areas function together.     

数字新闻生态下的信息失序:对数据主义的反思

数字技术在很多方面改变了信息的创建、传播与解释方式,并"生态性地"介入当代新闻业的发展。"数据化"是数字新闻的特征之一,然而对于数据化不加反思地推崇和合理化,即数据主义的思想开始占据优势,导致在数字新闻生态中,公众、媒介与机构之间的关系被解构与重构,并衍生出信息失序等社会现象。信息失序涵盖了虚假信息、错误信息、恶意信息三大类,其涌现与新闻业的结构性转型密切相关。在去语境化、不透明的信息传播环境之中,数据来源不清,加之公众对情感和身份表达的重视,进一步推动并放大了信息失序,对公众、新闻业以及社会的影响颇深,但最严重的结果是公众对所有信息的不信任。基于对数据主义的反思,提升公众获取可验证信息的能力,同时强化政府、组织团体等主体的干预是治理信息失序的重要思路和方式。