难言之“瘾” “成瘾时代”的欢与痛

欲海无边。快感无度。一头扎进去。久而成瘾。欢乐是短暂的。痛苦是持久的。当有一天。瘾君子需要与瘾道别时。才发现那是一种旷日持久的自我决斗。研究者们说。瘾也是一种与时俱进的行为。随着新物质或新生活方式的出现。就总有一些人不可避免地患上与之对应的新瘾。从这一意义上说。瘾是时代疾患。一方面。是一个接一个的上瘾者；一方面。是一个接一个的戒瘾办法。瘾有多极端。戒瘾的方法也可能多极端。当戒瘾方法触及到人的尊严以及身体安全时。我们的社会该怎么办7     

有趣的一句话书评

《诗经》——先民的歌唱。《左传》——诸侯争盟记。《山海经》——神话的故乡。《楚辞》——泽畔的悲歌。《孙子兵法》——不朽的战争艺术。《盐铁论》——汉代财经大辩论。《天工开物》——科技的百科书。《老子》——生命的大智慧。《墨子》——救世的苦行者。《史记》——历史的长城。《庄子》——哲学的天籁。《荀子》——人性的批判。《战国策》——隽永和说辞。《资治通鉴》——帝王的镜子。《颜氏家训》——一位父亲的叮咛。《老残游记》——帝国的最后一瞥。《聊斋志异》——瓜棚下的怪谈。《三国演义》——龙争虎斗。《红楼梦》—…     

电视新闻传播的两个“场效”营造

时代的飞速发展。读者欣赏、阅读的多元化需求。呼唤与催促着新闻采写观念、方式、方法的创新。但从目前的新闻实践看。有一些新闻编采人员。依然沉浸在以往惯性的采写缩的僵化模式中，缺少感动，鲜少创新。与此同时。相当多的媒体。一批缩采人员。不断与时俱进，开拓创新，积累了很多适应读者需求的采写编新模式。受到读者热烈欢迎。寻求创新之路也好。总结成功经验也罢。总之，我们所关注的就是，读者口味变了。我们的媒体怎么办?     

档案是什么

档案是一座桥,连接着昨天、今天和明天。档案是一盏灯,用前人创造的智慧照亮来者的路。档案是一张网,把古人、今人、后人连在一条纤绳上。档案是一面镜子,用历史的明鉴照出世人的美丑善恶。档案是一块基石,为聪明人筑起成功怀辉煌。档案是最权威的教科书。档案是最完善的百科大全。档案是人类精神财富和物质财富的源泉。档案是人类智慧的宝库。档案是历史的丰碑。档案是历史的回音壁。档案是回忆的显示屏。档案是人类社会的最典型的记忆工具。档案是“知识的化石”。档案是社会实践活动的伴生物。档案是历史演变的“自传”。档案是社会发展…     

有趣的人体比喻

首脑:国家、政府的领导人。面目:事物呈现的景象、状态。眉目:事情的头绪。鼻祖:创始人。齿唇:互相接近且有共同利害。长舌:爱谈或爱搬弄是非的人。咽喉:极为险要的交通关卡。手心:所控制的范围。手足:亲兄弟。腿子:帮凶。心脏:中心、要害。心肠:感情状态、用意。肝胆:真诚的人。胃口:食量、兴趣。头目:集团中为首的人。耳目:替人刺探消息的人。眉睫:近在眼前。嘴脸:人的本质表现。唇舌:言语。喉舌:代言人或新闻宣传机构。手头:个人经济状况。手腕:本领、能耐、手段。手脚:暗中采取的行动。心目:想法和看法。心肝:宝贝、最心爱的人。肺腑:内…     

受伤的亚洲——救援，与时间赛跑

在苏门答腊岛。狭小的被损坏的飞机跑道。变成了世界上最繁忙的机场之一。但这仍然应付不了灾区的救援需要。因此。一些边远的灾区。灾民可能难以捱过一个月。     

豪迈——刘国强：校对室里扑“点球”

新闻在哪里。记就在哪里。不管是硝烟弥漫的战场。还是温馨宁静的社区。不管是车水马龙的城市。还是偏远贫穷的山野。记让人们听见了社会前行的脚步。记让人们感觉到了和社会千丝万缕的联系。工人农民靠力量生产着物质的粮食。记却靠智慧生产着精神的粮食。不能想象。一个明发达的社会会没有记。在2004年的四季更替中。中国，的记们不辱使命。用生命和热血写下了一份份壮丽的答卷。     

【人间闲话】 尼姑的其他

尼姑的故事该是吸引人的。因为她们夹带着双料的杀伤力。出家人,还有女人。都是不俗的看点。尼姑的故事该是吸引人的。因为她们夹带着双料的杀伤力。出家人,还有女人。都是不俗的看点。     

书画碑帖中的"本"

真本:①指书籍的手稿或原刻。②字画的真迹。③碑帖的原拓。善本:精加校勘、错误较少的书籍。的本:①真本。②原拓本。精本:校印精善的书本。讹本:也作讠为本。指传抄、翻印有错误的本子。误本:指文字有错误的版本。伪本:冒充名画真迹或原书真本的描摹本或翻刻本。赝本:假托名人手笔的刻本、字画、碑帖。祖本:书籍或碑帖最早的刻本或拓本。原本:①第一次写成或刻成的书本。②翻译所根据的原书。初本:书籍的原始版本。草本:书籍的原稿、底本。秘本:珍藏而不易见到的书籍。珍本:极其珍贵极难获得的书籍。孤本:在世间仅有一份留传的图书。其他…     

浅谈人与休闲空间

休闲是人生的一大需求。21世纪的科学技术对人类最重要的贡献，就是将人类从繁重的体力劳动中解放出来。使人们有了充裕的休闲时间。休闲是人类物质明和精神明的结晶。是人的一种崭新的生活方式、生命状态，它与每个人的生命质量息息相关。我国自1995年5月起。开始实行5天工作制。它意味着人有近三分之一的时间要在休闲中度过，休闲质量的高低将直接影响社会的全面发展与进步。影响到人与自然的和谐统一。影响到人能否完整、全面、踺康地发展自己。毋庸置疑。休闲对人们的社会生活越来越重要。因此。关注和研究人的休闲需求与休闲空间的互动关系。就成了一个在理论、实践等层面上都必须引起高度重视的问题。     

Politicking for the Public Library

ABSTRACT

In today's current political environment raising support for millage renewals, bond campaigns or even millage continuations for public libraries is affected by national politics, and a tendency towards tax aversion on principle across the country. The lessons we can learn from the governing boards of small and rural public libraries are worth raising up to a greater national consciousness. Board governance, community consciousness, and facilities management are clear and logical tools that elected boards of public libraries can use to politick for support of libraries.     

British Writings on Romania: From Travel Accounts to Studies

This article surveys a sample of sources of the information about Romania available to British readers in nineteenth century British newspapers and periodicals. It traces first contacts between the Romanian lands and Britain after the union of the principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia in 1859, then after their independence from the Ottoman Empire. The article highlights an increased Romanian interest in British periodicals, which reported and reviewed Romanian literature and scholarship. The article concludes that nineteenth century British newspapers and periodicals offer a great variety and wealth of new material previously unavailable or unknown to researchers. It also states that only a portion of a large quantity of this material has been indexed and is therefore available via the bibliographic sources mentioned in the article. The author argues for the need of a new and updated British-Romanian bibliography, which can draw on new online resources offering access to thousands of new newspapers and periodical records.     

Architectures of Knowledge and Literary Tradition: A History of the Almanac in Croatia

ABSTRACT

The history of the almanac in Croatia is reconstructed through primary research in bibliographic and archival sources. The almanac is a vehicle for knowledge communication in informal contexts, engaging both oral tradition and literary forms traceable to medieval literacy and ways of structuring knowledge. The history of the almanac in Croatia reflects the changing context of the book trade, literacy, and the evolution of language. Four main stages are identified: (1) the beginning of the annual almanac in the seventeenth century; astrological almanacs reflecting the sensibility of the Baroque period; (2) the Enlightenment's stimulation of almanac publishing in the spirit of contemporary secular reforms in agriculture and education; (3) nineteenth-and twentieth-century almanac trade, showing complex and overlapping networks for the production, distribution and appropriation of printed almanacs;(4) roughly the end of World War II, when the almanac slowly moved out of the role of a popular mass medium and into specialized niches represented by regional, diaspora, and religious almanacs.     

Slavic Approval Plans: What Works and What Doesn't

ABSTRACT

The paper looks at library approval plans for material published in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian countries from the selector's point of view. Reasons why a selector would or would not want one are examined. Success with approval plans requires monitoring receipts, as well as good and ongoing communication among the selector, the acquistions department, and the vendor. A preliminary list of vendors offering approval plans for the countries of the region appears in the appendix.     

How Digital Content Resellers are Impacting Trade Book Publishing

Some key questions for publishers in today’s market are: Could Amazon’s recent merger and acquisitions strategy create a disruptive or paradigm shifting business model in the publishing industry? Do their recent actions post mergers and acquisitions illustrate a predicable pattern of behaviour that publishers can strategize around? This paper will explore these questions and look at some of the possible reasons behind Amazon’s business practices and the possible consequences to publishers.     

Germany's New Culture of Welcome—Our Libraries are an Essential Part of it

ABSTRACT

German authorities are expecting more than 1 million refugees by the end of 2015. These people come to Germany to seek protection and assistance and to build a new life, therefore it is important to welcome them and to assist them in their integration as soon as possible. This situation creates a versatile and perfectly fitting opportunity for cultural and educational programs, including libraries, which can play a vital role in this integration process. The key to integration is the knowledge of the German language, and the most important challenge now is to teach the necessary language skills to as many asylum-seekers as possible.     

Syndicating Rich Bibliographic Metadata Using MODS and RSS

Abstract

Many libraries use RSS to syndicate information about their collections to users. A survey of 65 academic libraries revealed their most common use for RSS is to disseminate information about library holdings, such as lists of new acquisitions. Even though typical RSS feeds are ill suited to the task of carrying rich bibliographic metadata, great potential exists for developing applications that can exploit metadata exposed to Web services via RSS. Using the MODS metadata format, entire catalog records can be seamlessly embedded in RSS 2.0 feeds. Existing tools, such as Library of Congress Java toolkits and XSLT stylesheets, can facilitate this process, while a new XSLT stylesheet may be used to create the RSS feeds complete with MODS records. As an example of the added functionality these MODS/RSS feeds can offer, records from a MODS-enriched RSS feed can be ingested into a non-RSS application such as Zotero. As more emerging library technologies use Web services architectures to handle data objects, the ability to syndicate catalog records will become more critical to providing innovative library Web services.     

由“资源集聚”向“需求导向”转变——对武汉科技信息服务平台建设的思考

为进一步提升武汉科技信息共享服务平台使用效率,本文从平台资源建设、资源应用、供需对接方式和供需特点等方面分析了武汉科技信息资源服务现状;基于需求和利用的角度,结合平台管理实践和走访用户、问卷调查等研究方法,从信息资源需求主体和平台自身建设管理两个维度,找出制约科技资源供需对接的主要因素;以市场化和制度化为创新理念,从政策创新、机制创新、市场化服务、环境营造、人才培养等方面提出平台建设由“资源集聚”向“需求导向”转变的对策建议.     

Selling Women on PDAs from “Simply Palm” to “Audrey”: How Moore's Law Met Parkinson's Law in the Kitchen

This essay investigates key moments in the history of personal digital assistant (PDA) marketing to women. Analyzing promotional texts for three PDAs that received considerable press coverage from 1999 to 2001, this essay explores the cultural significance of the convergence of anxieties about women's place in the gendered division of labor with the computer industry's changing marketing imperatives. Drawing on an array of promotional texts, including news articles, press releases, promotional Web sites, and ads appearing in newspapers and magazines, this paper tells the story of how the computer industry aimed to sell smaller, faster computing devices to women while promising to mediate and thus reproduce women's overwork as paid and familial laborers. After experimenting with the PDA as a sexy fashionable gadget for working women, marketers approached women as mothers with “Audrey,” an Internet appliance designed for the kitchen.     

Communicating With Bank Stakeholders During Recession: Why It's Important,Who Is Doing It,and How to Stay in the Loop

This study explores the attitudes and actions of bank managers toward communication spending during recession. Results of this study indicate that organizational leaders cut communication spending early during recession and also erroneously rely on the bank's financials to mitigate irrational customer withdrawals. This research is used to illustrate the need for public librarians to meet the needs of bank stakeholders when their institution ceases to communicate during crises, for academic librarians to educate students in undergraduate and graduate programs regarding heightened information needs during recession, and for corporate librarians to understand a potential avenue for competitive advantage during recession.