“解密”爱因斯坦

家长里短的书信更显示出爱因斯坦的坦荡淳朴和平易可亲,让人们看到一个完整和近乎完美的人7月10日,一代科学巨匠爱因斯坦最后一批文稿——他的私人书信在尘封半个多世纪之后终于被公开。这批书信大部分来自耶路撒冷希伯莱大学的爱因斯坦档案馆,一直由爱因斯坦的继女马格特·爱因斯坦保管,她曾要求在她死后的20年中这些信件不能公之于众——现在正好是她去世(1986年7月)20周年。另外还有一小部分信件来自苏黎世中央图书馆的手稿收藏室以及其他收藏点。总数多达3500页以上的这批书信,将被陆续公开出版。其中,日期从1909年5月到1920年12月的465…     

精神财富宝贵的遗产--路易·艾黎藏书评介

路易·艾黎是新西兰人,1927年来到中国.在华60年,他将全部精力和心血都献给了中国人民的解放和建设事业.本文着重介绍路易·艾黎的藏书、著作,以展现路易·艾黎作家、学者风范,并促进对路易·艾黎著作和生平的研究.     

八面来风

以色列希伯来大学开设爱因斯坦网上档案馆以色列耶路撒冷希伯来大学2012年3月19日宣布开设阿尔伯特.爱因斯坦网上档案馆,将陆续在网上展出爱因斯坦的手稿和书信等文件,包括他亲手撰写的6封情书、给母亲的明信片、一大堆粉丝来信,以     

微机传奇——8台老计算机的前世今生

在清华大学科学博物馆(筹)与合肥子木园博物馆合办的“神机妙算——计算器具历史展”中,有一组8台计算机实物尤其引人注目,它们是个人计算机早期的代表机型,也是对计算机发展史的实物记录。这8台老计算机出现于微软公司创始人比尔·盖茨和保罗·艾伦的两张经典合影之中,共同折射出个人计算机与微软操作系统走向大众的、改变世界的历史意义。挖掘经典照片和老计算机的背景,既能了解两位优秀企业家开创计算机技术实业的历程,又能知晓当初计算机在产品设计、功能实现等方面所处的历史阶段。     

尼古拉·特斯拉的遗产

位于塞尔维亚贝尔格莱德的尼古拉·特斯拉博物馆保存了特斯拉一生使用过的大量个人物品。博物馆的无上至宝包括特斯拉的文件、手稿、科学笔记、计算、图表、图纸和信件等个人档案,共计163911件。2003年,为表彰尼古拉·特斯拉及其发明的普世意义,联合国教科文组织将特斯拉的档案作为可移动人类文献遗产的一部分,加入了“世界记忆遗产名录”这一文化遗产保护的最高形式。博物馆全部馆藏已经实现了数字化并制作成缩影胶片,此举可确保将相关资料永久地流传给后代。     

海伦·斯诺的两封信（致张学良、王福时）

1991年5月美国华美协进会为张学良九十寿诞举行祝寿宴，张学良的亲属、老部下和尊崇他的老朋友，纷纷赶到纽约参加这次寿宴。已经年迈的海伦·福斯特·斯诺闻讯，在5月29日写了一封贺信，派人送给张学良将军，回顾往事，重叙旧谊，并且特别指出，如果没有张学良的帮助，他们夫妇当年不可能试图冒险去延安，信中还讲到相关的其他一些趣事。同年8月16日，海伦·斯诺与王福时通信时，把这封信的复印件寄给了他。这两封信是王福时先生最近提供的，由我译成中文。有助于我们从一个侧面了解当年斯诺夫妇在华活动的一些情况。     

斯文·赫定、袁同礼与国立北平图书馆——以瑞典国家档案馆藏“斯文·赫定档案”为中心的考察

瑞典国家档案馆藏“斯文·赫定档案”的研究表明斯文·赫定与袁同礼的关系密切,他们在20世纪20—40年代围绕着国立北平图书馆的往来和交流频繁。在袁同礼的推动下,国立北平图书馆与瑞典学术机构和学人有着二十余年的交流与合作。档案的研究,展现了少为人知的中、瑞学术交流细节,为国家图书馆史、袁同礼等研究提供了新资料。参考文献61。     

一桩诺贝尔文学奖的“图书生意”——论鲍勃·迪伦作品的出版及跨界融合

20世纪60年代,鲍勃·迪伦蜚声欧美乐坛,受时政风云、文化差异等因素影响,直到20世纪90年代,其作品才逐渐为中国音乐界、文学界所熟悉.鲍勃·迪伦获2016年诺贝尔文学奖以来,其中文传记、歌词集作品的引介和传播一度趋热,与中国社会风尚的变迁遥相呼应.《鲍勃·迪伦诗歌集(1961-2012)》等图书亲近大众、乐迷的出版运作,在外国诗歌引介方面具有一定的代表性.出版方推动音乐、诗歌、影视跨界融合,有助于延伸鲍勃·迪伦相关图书出版之外的产业链.     

让·巴蒂斯特·佩兰与第一座科学中心的诞生

今年是世界上第一座“科学中心”——巴黎发现宫成立80周年。通过梳理法国著名物理学家、1926年诺贝尔物理学奖得主让·巴蒂斯特·佩兰的科研经历和科学教育经历,以及他创建发现宫的缘由和过程,揭示这一科学博物馆发展史上里程碑式事件的背景,可以看出让·佩兰的创新性科学教育理念及其对世界科学博物馆发展的影响。     

第一个德国女图书馆员--波拉·派塞尔(1864-1929)

波拉·派塞尔于 186 4年 4月 2 6日出生于柏林一个富裕的犹太出版商家庭。她一生中的大部分时间是在柏林的ｋｒｅｕｚｂｅｒｇ区度过的。 (这是柏林的一个行政区 ,如广州市“海珠区” ;中华人民共和国驻联邦德国大使馆即坐落于该区。———泽者注 )。关于波拉·派塞尔的童年及青少年时代 ,所知甚少。既无私人遗产 ,也无照片。但在柏林的犹太人聚居区还留有她出生的登记 ,及她后来的三封亲笔书信。也曾试图寻找她的亲属 ,在后来的犹太人逃难中 ,他们也许保存有她的一些资料 ,但至今尚无什么成果。波拉·派塞尔出生于书香之家 ,家庭环境的自由…     

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.