The economic crisis and the scientific,technical and cultural information services in Mexico

Certainly economic crises in the world of today are not the exclusive domain of any one country. At some time or other, nations throughout the world have suffered the effects of the economic problems. In this, Mexico is no exception. The Mexican crisis, the longest we have ever known, has brought problems that we are facing today.     

Internet四川节点的网络环境

四川省科技情报所近期通过Ｉｎｔｅｒｎｅｔ服务节点，在四川省内建成了一种信息高速公路环境。本文就四川省Ｉｎｔｅｒｎｅｔ服务节点硬件环境、软件环境和连入Ｉｎｔｅｒｎｅｔ的方法等做简要介绍。     

图书情报远程教育的初步研究

虚拟大学和远程教育是当今世界高等教育的最新成果。图书情报远程教育应运而生。本文讨论了图书情报远程教育思想、教学内容、教学方法和组织管理问题。借鉴国外的经验, 探讨了我国图书情报远程教育的实施问题。     

On the crest of a wave: transforming the archival future

The profession of digital archivist is crystallising, fundamentally challenging traditional archival roles. The very nature of digital records also challenges the sustainability of archival systems and collections. Records that used to stay stable for decades in an analogue world now risk being lost or damaged within moments of creation. How should archivists react to these changes? Archivists have to lift ourselves out of our analogue environment and focus more effort on forging a new path, to reposition archives, archival institutions and archival practitioners more strategically for the future. To do this, archivists must resist the temptation to think that we and we alone – as people, as archivists or as today’s archivists as opposed to yesterday’s archivists – can come up with the ultimate solution to the world’s recordkeeping problems. Archivists must keep innovating, absolutely. But we also need to be agile and flexible, remembering that anything we come up with today will be superseded at some point in the future – increasingly, in the very near future. Archivists need to forge links with archives, systems and people in order to come up with approaches to records and archives care that remain usable now and flexible well into the future.     

经济全球化背景下的中国国家经济安全

经济全球化是当今世界经济发展的重要特征,随着经济全球化的发展,国家经济安全的地位日益重要。中国在经济全球化进程中经济发展的主要风险有:产业结构层次低,市场化程度低,在国际生产、贸易、投资领域处于劣势地位;农业基础薄弱,农村和农业安全面临世界农产晶生产销售大国的冲击;金融体系不完备,在面对国际金融巨头竞争、规避国际金融风险方面尚缺乏有效的机制和手段。为此,我国必须切实建立起完善的社会主义市场经济体制,优化产业结构;进一步加强农业在国民经济中的基础地位,提高农业产业的国际市场竞争能力;深化金融改革,完善金融体系,确保国家经济安全。     

关于国际图书交换中的成本管理

图书馆国际图书交换引进企业的成本管理模式，是图书馆在适应现代社会的变革中的一种选择。成本管理模式，对于改善图书馆在国际图书交换领域的管理，提高在这一领域发展投入的经济效益和社会效益，将具有重要的作用。同时，它也将为图书馆管理的现代化提供一条科学的途径。     

目前互联网领域信息推送技术的评述

互联网已经成为了一个全球性的超级数据库,丰富的资源信息拓宽了人们的视野,同时也给人们带来了信息过载和信息迷向的问题。信息推送技术的出现从根本上改变了人们获取信息的传统方式,极大地提高了用户获取信息的效率。目前正在发展成为全球主流的信息传播模式,并己初步显示出广阔的应用前景。     

搜索引擎的最新进展述要

搜索引擎已成为人们利用网络的最重要工具.目前,网络上出现了一些具有新颖性、创新性的搜索引擎或挖掘出搜索引擎的新功能,其中有些研究成果直接代表着搜索引擎的发展方向.文章通过跟踪、试用、分析等环节,对新的搜索引擎或具有新功能的搜索引擎进行了归纳,便于人们更好地了解当前世界搜索引擎的现状.     

合并高校办刊的困境及思考

根据合并高校及学报自身的特点,结合中国国情,合并高校办刊应明确目标,合理定位,坚持综合化与专业化相结合,以适应时代和科技发展的趋势,满足现代读者获取信息的需要,从而使合并高校办刊走出困境,实现"两个效益"双丰收.     

Are Museums Still Necessary?

Museums today face a crisis of confidence arising from two issues: (1) the erosion of a historically unreliable funding base, and (2) a challenge for audience by entrepreneurial elements in the culture. Other issues center on a growing public idea that museum work can be shared by entities such as theme parks and exhibition halls and the perception that education should be shaped as recreation. Museum responses to these problems have exacerbated their vulnerability as unique institutions. Certain dichotomies in the museum world help to explain this situation: (1) professionalism versus the audience, (2) connoisseurship versus the public experience, (3) the centrality versus the peripherality of objects in museums, (4) museums as businesses versus museums as educators, and (5) visitor expectations versus available resources. Resolution of the conflicts requires museums to remember that they are communication systems capable of teaching hard information, to stop emulating the forces that threaten to destroy them, and to pay attention to certain lessons understood in the business world. Museums also must find stable and reliable funding, reinvigorate the museum accreditation program, and pay attention to what museums really exist for. Museums are still necessary only when they function as true museums.     

Expanded Roles: Qualities That Serialists Can Bring to Other Aspects of Information Work

Summary

Increasingly today, serials librarians have to accept additional responsibilities outside their primary areas of expertise. The skills serialists have gained in handling the complexities of serials cataloging make a solid foundation upon which to build proficiency in other areas of work within as well as outside the traditional library. Two professionals show how such skills are needed in the changing world of information services.     

Building Racially Diverse Collections:

Reference librarians and subject bibliographiers who responsibility for developing library collections hsould include racially diverse materials. The changing demographics of America's population dictate why we need to be inclusive. More black, small indpendent publishers exist today than ever before to provide access to these materials. Afrocentricity, one aspect of multicultural education, raises our consciousness of the role Africans have played in world history, in addition to the role played by Europeans, Latinos, Asians, Native American Indians and all other ethnic groups who are part of the American mosaic. Libraries must make a serious commitment of staff and resources to create collections which reflect the growing multicultural dimensions of the world. Librarians charged with building collections must educate themselves to understand, accept, appreciate and include people of color and their culture. Ultimately, such an appreciation of multiculturalism will enable us to move closer to eliminating racism and equalizing race relations.     

The economic downturn and libraries: an international survey

There is some concern that libraries, particularly university libraries, are facing a very bleak future because of the word‐wide economic downturn. Much of the evidence regarding the economic problems and consequent impacts is parochial, far from robust, and there is a suspicion of stakeholders talking the situation up. This paper presents robust and independent evidence on the extent to which libraries from around the world are experiencing financial hardship, the impacts that result, and what the future looks like. Comparative analyses are made on the grounds of country, sector, and size of institution. The particular situation of university libraries is highlighted and the implications of the findings are examined from the perspective of scholarly publishers.     

Shifting Sales Channels

The Book Industry Study Group and The Idea Logical Company carried out an online survey to capture publishers’ comments on how market conditions were changing and what they are doing differently as a result of the economic pressures in the consumer market. About 250 individuals responded to the online survey. Interviews were carried out of more than a dozen executives at large and small publishers and their accounts to get further insights. The goal was to identify what are the sales conditions for trade book publishers today and what publishers are doing to change sales and marketing and even editorial practices to accommodate changing times. What we have learned from that joint effort is reflected in this article.     

德国大学的历史回顾与未来展望

德国大学历史悠久,发展曲折。昨天,德国大学因有被认为是近代大学开端的柏林大学以及它的洪堡理念而著称于世;今天,德国大学因难题多而使改革举步维艰;为再次证明自身实力,德国怀着对明天的企盼,试图通过打造一批“精英大学”,重现昔日的辉煌。本文主要对德国大学的发展历史,以点代面,点面结合,作出简要的总结和回顾,以理出德国大学的整体发展趋势与走向。     

A comparison of political,cultural, and economic indicators of access to information in Arab and non-Arab states

As more and more countries adopt access-to-information (ATI) laws to advance economic development and democratic self-governance, efforts are under way to foster ATI movements in the Arab world. While one nation in that region already has adopted the legislation, the likelihood of adoption in other Arab states is unknown. This comparative study analyzed 12 quantitative indicators measuring political, cultural, and economic factors associated with access to information. Results indicate that Arab countries, as a whole, contrast sharply in nearly all areas with non-Arab countries that have ATI laws and are consistent with non-Arab countries that do not have ATI laws. However, the study also found that the most recent ATI law adopters had weaker political, cultural, and economic enabling environments for government information access, which may portend a global phenomenon that will continue and could explain the interest in adopting the legislation in the Arab world. Findings also suggest that while a handful of Arab countries might have the wealth to effectively implement ATI laws, political and cultural conditions may be substantial obstacles for greater government transparency. Other results regarding the use of quantitative indicators of ATI adoption, particularly structural pluralism, are discussed.     

Policy and Partnerships for the Development of the Infoculture — Information at the Centre of a New Form of Solidarity

The development of digital technologies for the production, processing, dissemination and use of information is leading to the emergence of a new society based on a far reaching transformation in the relationship between people and institutions and on a radical change in many professional, economic, educational or cultural practices. The crucial question facing us today is whether our traditional societies are ready for such a shift in ways of thinking, communicating and acting. Are people sufficiently aware and adequately equipped to become citizens of this new information society? Are they prepared to be active, efficient and responsible participants in the new communities living on information exchange? Are we really ready to be part of a new culture based on a swifter and broader flow of information, ideas and knowledge? The development of that special culture, or infoculture, depends first and foremost on education, both general and vocational, and on initial and continuing training as well as on raising awareness among the public at large. Achieving a real infoculture calls for full-scale mobilization of all those who in their various ways are involved in the information society. Partnerships must be encouraged; national, regional or world projects must be given support; there is more than ever a need for a new form of solidarity to develop the infoculture.     

论经济报道人才的素质要求与培养方式

全球性金融危机引发了人们对经济信息和经济报道的格外关注,经济报道人才需求问题也凸现出来。本文从对目前我国经济报道存在问题的分析入手,着重就制约经济报道水平的关键性因素——经济报道人才的素质要求和培养方式展开论述,提出可以采用院校内部横向联合培养、院校与财经媒体间订单式培养、财经媒体内部职业培训及新闻学专业硕士学位培养等方式来加快经济报道人才的培养,提高经济报道人才的质量。     

Nineteen Thirty-Eight to Today

In 1938 the Catalog Section of the American Library Association (ALA) mailed a questionnaire to approximately 1600 librarians, asking their opinions concerning various problems in cataloging and classification. Many changes have occurred since then, but there are problems cited in 1938 that are still with us in one form or another. The items listed in the questionnaire are discussed, and conclusions drawn as to their pertinence for today.     

数字鸿沟的危害性及其跨越策略

数字鸿沟将进一步加剧贫富分化,威胁国家安全乃至全球政治经济的稳定,威胁世界文化财富和语言的多样性,剥夺一些人参与社会活动的权利。应调动一切可以调动的力量,携手解决这个问题。要加快发展中国家和农村的通信基础设施建设;在通信技术的研究开发中,优先考虑缩小数字鸿沟的技术;要全面提高教育水平,普及信息技术教育。