浅析社区图书馆建设模式与保障

社区图书馆建设是社会、经济发展的必然要求，文章论述了社区图书馆建设的原则，社区图书馆的作用，探讨了社区图书馆的几种建设模式，提出了保障社区图书馆建设的几种对策与措施。     

也谈社区图书馆建设

谈起“社区图书馆”，人们总是不以为然，似乎在公共图书馆这个大雅之堂中并没有它的座次。综观一些城市的社区图书馆现状大体有几种状况：一是有始无终——有的社区为了点辍“文化设施”，在社区形成之后，也建立社区图书馆，“剪彩”过后便不知去向；二是自生自灭——有的社区遇到热心人，兴致勃勃地办好了社区图书馆，但热心人一旦离去，社区图书馆也有随之灭亡；三是三天打鱼，两天晒网——有的社区图书馆虽有房舍，有书刊，却无人管理，偶尔开放一二天便关门打烊；四是居无定所——有的社区虽然办了社区图书馆，却没固定的馆舍，往往是临时找个房子，一旦另有需要，社区图书馆也须“让开”。如此种种，一言以蔽之，社区图书馆无足轻重。面对人们对社区图书馆的蔑视、冷漠，我们应该重新认识社区图书馆，从理论和实践上把社区图书馆建设提到我们的设事日程上来。     

立足本地实际开拓创新服务——温州市图书馆开展社区图书馆工作的实践分析

创建社区图书馆是公共图书馆自身发展的需求，作者认为现阶段在温州建设和发展社区图书馆必须结合本地实际，采用多种模式灵活办馆，在创建社区图书馆的过程中，要重视对社区图书馆的“推销”，切实做好宣传推广工作，让社区居民充分认识和了解社区图书馆。     

乡村社区图书馆的发展方向

以湖南乡村社区图书馆的发展历程为脉络，找出阻碍乡村社区图书馆发展的根本原因，充分论证了市场经济与乡村社区图书馆之问的关系，从而得出了乡村社区图书馆的发展方向，认为乡村社区图书馆的发展必须摒弃计划经济的思想束缚，义无反顾地走向市场经济，才能确保其健康顺利地发展。     

社区图书馆建设三要素

要建设与社区发展相适应的社区图书馆，必须牢牢把握社区图书馆的本质特点，从最基本的“藏书、服务、馆员”三个要素着手，整体规划，合理设计，发挥社区图书馆应有的功能，推动社区图书馆不断向前发展。     

社区文化与社区图书馆

通过对社区文化与社区图书馆的概述，提出了建设社区图书馆是社区文化发展的必然选择，社区图书馆建设的三个必要条件，社区图书馆的建设原则及社区图书馆建设中应注意的几个问题。     

论社区图书馆的建构与发展

社区图书馆是社区文化建设与服务的一部分，是城市基层图书馆发展的主要形式，本文结合国内社区图书馆发展的现状，从都市文化建设的角度对社区图书馆进行重新审视，并就如何构建与发展社区图书馆提出意见。     

试论社区图书馆的建设

社区图书馆在社区文化建设中占有重要位置，随着城市化进程的加快，社区图书馆也相应得到了发展。文章就社区图书馆的现状和如何构建社区图书馆提出了一些看法和建议。     

论21世纪我国城市社区图书馆建设

21世纪将是我国社区图书馆飞速发展的时期。本文阐述了21世纪我国城市社区图书馆的功能，提出现阶段城市社区图书馆建设必须坚持的原则，并阐述了21世纪我国城市社区图书馆建设的要点。     

浅谈社区图书馆的功能与服务

本文概述了社区图书馆的概念，总结出社区图书馆应有的功能，以及社区图书馆需要开展哪些服务，并通过怎样的方式去做好服务。     

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.