以人为本与图书馆服务及管理创新

本文从以人为本的角度出发，分析了图书馆活动中的“人”，提出了图书馆服务要以读者为本和图书馆管理要以馆员为本的观点，最后强调了用以人为本创新服务与管理对图书馆的重要意义。     

以人为本的图书馆管理与服务

本文针对以人为本的管理理念，对图书馆以人为本的管理与服务进行了深入探讨，剖析了以馆员为本和以读者为本这两方面的关系，提出了在图书馆实现以人为本的管理与服务的具体措施和建议。     

以人为本——21世纪图书馆的立馆之基

以人为本即以人为中心的管理思想，是21世纪图书馆的立馆之基，这是由图书馆的宗旨和极本任何决定的。文中提出贯彻以人为本思想的八点措施。     

图书馆"以人为本"内涵中的几个问题

“以人为本”中的“人”分别是读者、馆员和一切有利于推动图书馆事业的组织和机构，是当代人和未来人的总体，是个体和群体的统一体，这个统一体在图书馆管理中，应以个体馆员为主体。在图书馆宏观规划和读者服务中，应以群体为本。“以人为本”中的“本”要根据所要表达的内容有选择性地加强以使用、具体界定。     

以人为本:21世纪图书馆的管理与服务

从管理以馆员为本和服务以读为本两个方面，阐述了在21世纪图书馆工作中以人为本的管理思想与服务理念，探索了馆员和读间的关系，强调图书馆活动中“人”的决定作用和主导地位。     

图书馆如何做好以人为本的管理

图书馆只有做好以人文本的管理才能做好以人为本的服务,文章从以读者为本和以馆员为本两方面,对现代图书馆如何实施人文管理进行了探讨。     

试论图书馆"以人为本"的管理实现

在“以人为本”的管理成为图书馆管理主旋律的背景下，本文运用哲学的观点，分析了“以人为本”的馆员管理实现途径。文章认为单纯的以“经济人”、“社会人”、“自我实现人”的人性假设去实施对馆员的“人本管理”，不完全是“以人为本”的馆员管理，只有以“复杂人”为本的馆员管理，才是完整意义上的“以人为本”的馆员管理。     

以读者为本与高校图书馆管理服务水平的提高探讨

随着高校图书馆服务水平的不断提高,追求高校图书馆服务的以人为本,也就是以读者为本,正日益成为高校图书馆管理服务发展的方向,也是衡量高校图书馆管理服务水平高低的标志。对于高校图书馆的管理和服务来说,追求以读者为本,就是要坚持人本主义理念,采取先进的管理方法,改进管理机制,提高服务水平,为读者提供并营造和谐、人性关怀的人文氛围。本文主要探讨在新形势下任何在以读者为本理念的指导下,提高高校图书馆管理服务水平。     

“以人为本”是图书馆管理的基础

本文阐述以“以人为本”的管理理念，并从图书馆管理者的角度，提出了如何在图书馆实施“以为人本”的管理途径。     

人本管理思想在图书馆管理中的应用

人本管理就是指把人视作管理的主要对象和最重要的资源，把人的发展作为管理的主要目的。以读者为中心，以馆员为主体是图书馆以人为本管理的两个方面。正确处理好“读者为本”与“馆员为本”．的关系。     

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.     

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.     

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.     

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.     

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.     

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.     

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.