为档案工作的平民意识叫好

近日，欣闻我国《婚姻登记档案管理办法》出台，办法规定我国婚姻登记档案的保管期限由80年改为100年。对保管期限到期的档案要按程序进行价值鉴定，对有继续保存价值的档案要延长保管期限，直至永久。为慎重起见，办法还规定无保存价值的将予以销毁，但婚姻登记档案目录则永久保存。     

档案工作平民意识的体现与发展

近日，欣闻我国《婚姻登记档案管理办法》出台，办法规定我国婚姻登记档案的保管期限由80年改为100年。对保管期限到期的档案要按程序进行价值鉴定。对有继续保存价值的档案要延长保管期限，直至永久。为慎重起见，办法还规定无保存价值的将予以销毁，但婚姻登记档案目录则永久保存。     

对“销毁档案”的几点思考

档案学理论认为:"档案价值鉴定工作,就是按照一定的目的、原则、标准和方法判定档案的价值,确定档案的保管期限,并据此剔除失去保存价值的档案予以销毁的一项档案业务工作",[1]"鉴定解决档案实体的存毁问题",[2]对经过鉴定"没有保存价值的或者已经保管期满的档案就要进行销毁"[3].<机关档案工作条例>第十七条规定:"机关应定期对已超过保管期限的档案进行鉴定……鉴定工作结束后,应提出工作报告,对确无保存价值的档案进行登记造册,经本机关领导人批准后销毁.     

浅议企业档案鉴定工作

档案鉴定工作就是将超过保管期限的经鉴定没有保存价值的档案销毁,对有保存价值的档案重新划分保管期限留存,它是档案管理工作中的一个重要环节。档案鉴定工作成效如何,直接影响馆藏档案的数量和质量。目前,有的企业档案馆藏出现“玉石不分,鱼龙混杂”的现象,影响了档案工作的正常运行。因此,企业档案鉴定工作的重要性日益凸显。     

档案馆中的“长期档案”处理

由于我国对于“档案”概念的不同理解和目前所采取的档案保管期限划分政策，国家档案资源中存在着永久、长期和短期档案是很正常的事。不正常的是，档案馆是永久保管档案的基地，但是在我国各级国家档案馆所保存的档案中有相当一部分却不是“永久”的，而是“长期”，甚至是“短期”的。不但如此，档案馆中保存的许多长期和短期档案早已超过原定的保管期限，在目前以至相当长的一段时间内，对于这些档案似乎仍然没有处理的可能。“长期”和“短期”档案存在着“永久”保存下去的趋势。     

家庭档案价值的鉴定

从宏观的角度看，家庭档案是家庭的宝贵财富，具有一定价值，但是具体到每一部分档案、每一个案卷、每一份材料其价值则不同。有的档案非常重要，是家庭生活不可缺少的，否则就会给家庭成员工作、生活造成无法弥补的损失，因而需要长久保存下去；有的档案只是在——定时间内有查考价值，只需保存一定时间；有些档案，随着时间的流逝，已经失去了继续保存的价值。如果让大量的没有价值的，或者已失去价值的档案充塞家庭档案箱或柜，就会造成很大浪费，同时对于有价值的家庭档案的利用与保管也是非常不利的。所以家庭档案保管到一定数量后，就要注意把有保存价值的家庭档案留存，对已失去继续保存价值的家庭档案通过鉴定进行剔除。     

社会需求决定档案价值

档案价值鉴定工作是根据统一的鉴定原则和标准，对档案在社会各个领域所拥有的现实作用和历史作用进行分析和鉴别，以重新确定档案的保存价值，然后划分出不同的保管期限，并针对重要档案给予妥善地保管，对无保存价值的档案，按着规定予以登记销毁。正因为此项工作决定着档案的生死存亡，另外     

永久档案无限期保存的负面效应及改进

国家档案局颁发的文件材料归档范围及保管期限表规定：档案保管期限分为“永久”、“长期”和“短期”三个档次，永久档案需永久保管，无限期地保存下去。而实践证明，由于永久档案的先天不足，划分等级过宽，鉴定时持宁高不低等原因，带来不利干馆(室，下同)藏档案的优化等一系列弊端。所以档案永久保管而不作定期鉴定，任其无限期地保存下去，确系利少弊多，有改进之必要。本文就此问题谈点拙见，有求干同行指正和赐教。     

房屋产权档案鉴定之我见

档案鉴定是档案管理工作中非常重要的一环．它是优化馆藏、充分利用现有保管条件的重要措施。然而,长期以来,我国的档案鉴定工作一直是档案工作中的“弱势”环节。《中华人民共和国档案法》对档案鉴定工作的规定是：“鉴定档案保存价值的原则,保管期限的标准以及销毁档案的程序和办法,     

对文书档案鉴定工作的几点思考

本文试图针对文书档案鉴定工作中存在的一些问题，从以下四个方面，阐述了自己的观点：一、从档案价值的特点和档案价值鉴定工作的特点入手，阐明档案价值鉴定本身存在的矛盾，即档案价值的客观性与档案价值鉴定工作中存在的主观随意性之间的矛盾；档案价值的潜在性、隐含性与档案价值鉴定工作的实践性之间的矛盾以及档案价值的多维性特点对鉴定人员的高要求与档案鉴定人员认知的局限性之间的矛盾。深入了解和正确对待这些矛盾，有利于我们在档案价值鉴定实践中正确把握和运用全面的、发展的、历史的观点去分析和判定档案的价值和确定保管期限。二、试图从开展档案价值鉴定的最初动因和其定义两个方面分析效益标准在档案鉴定工作中的具体体现，认识坚持效益标准在文书档案鉴定中的重要性。三、针对当前我国文书档案保管期限表存在的问题，对改革文书档案保管期限表提出了四点意见：第一、制定保管期限表要理论紧密联系实际，将鉴定的原则、标准和鉴定方法很好地溶入其中；第二、分级分系统制定档案保管期限表，构建比较完善的档案鉴定标准体系；第三、改目前文书档案保管期限“三分法”为“标时法”，缩短保管期限平台，减小操作弹性；第四、要进一步提高档案保管期限表的可操作性；四、通过对文书档案中电子档案与纸质档案的一些特点的对比以及对电子档案鉴定工作目前的主要矛盾的分析，认为我国当前电子档案鉴定的主要任务应该放在鉴定其真伪上。     

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.