Plant Collection “Half‐life:” Can Botanic Gardens Weather the Climate?

Botanic gardens are organized around plant collections, and climate change will affect those collections. Land loss is expected for gardens near sea level, prompting a loss of plants from the collection. Future collection development requires planning for these losses, which in turn requires assessment of the extent and rate of collection loss. We examined collection inventory change over time using records at Montgomery Botanical Center (MBC), to formulate a plant collection half‐life concept. This half‐life was used to project changes in MBC's plant collection over the next 100 years within the context of sea level changes. Comparing predicted rates of collection change with projected rates of loss due to sea level rise, we expect plant collection development to keep pace with climate change. As actively curated resources, botanic garden plant collections can adapt to environmental change faster and more deliberately than natural systems.     

“What is Less or More than a Touch?” Multimedia Classics and Hypermedia Hermeneutics

Hypermedia is so diverse that it is in need of documentation, analysis, and methodology. For more than 20 years, online and offline applications of hypermedia technology have combined text, image, video, animation, and sound into a total work of art (Gesamtkunstwerk). This essay provides an insight into my research project, Multimedia Classics and Hypermedia Hermeneutics, focusing on why it is so difficult to describe and analyze hypermedia applications on cultural topics. It suggests how the functions, contents, and forms of hypermedia could be analyzed; to do so, it looks at Notzimmer, an interactive website story about a knockdown furniture construction kit designed by Jewish refugee Mauritius Ehrlich during World War II.     

河北省图书馆学会201O年度征文活动总结

各位领导、各位代表、各位同仁： 受学会理事会的委托,我代表河北省图书馆学会学术工作委员会对2010年度的学术征文活动作如下总结。 2010年的征文主题是“公共文化服务体系构架下的图书馆服务”。这一主题反映了图书馆界的现实要求,具有鲜明的时代特征,得到了广大会员的积极响应。     

201O年灾难新闻报道研究综述

本文以2010年新闻传播学核心期刊为研究对象,通过文献研究对有关灾难新闻研究成果展开论述。研究发现,在新的社会环境和新的媒介环境下,灾难新闻研究有了新的角度,但在研究成果方面也存在些许问题。     

201O年河北省图书馆学会年会闭幕词

各位领导、理事、馆长,各位图书馆同仁： 大家好! 为期两天的2010年河北省图书馆学会年会,在各位与会代表的大力支持和热情参与下,在台前幕后所有工作人员的共同努力下,圆满地完成了各项既定议程,即将落下帷幕了。我代表大会组委会,对会议的成功举办表示热烈祝贺!受会议委托,现在我对会议做一个简要回顾与总结,希望能为这次会议划上一个圆满的句号。