日本公共图书馆商务支援服务的启示

商务支援服务是日本图书馆界最近一个时期的热门话题。本文对日本图书馆界的商务支援服务理念，以及这一领域的活动方式、活动组织等作了系统的分析。同时，讨论了国内公共图书馆为中小型企业的发展、各层次学校毕业生的创业、以及下岗人员等社会弱势群体的再就业，提供相应的图书馆信息服务——“商务支援”类服务的可能性。     

日本公共图书馆商务支援服务的内容和方式

文章用文献普查、网络调查、比较分析等研究方法,对日本公共图书馆商务支援服务的内容和形式进行了比较系统的研究。日本公共图书馆所开展商务支援服务的方式主要有商务交流研讨、商务支援资料提供和商务咨询等。不同的图书馆在开展服务的过程中注意发挥各馆的特色,提供个性化的商务支援服务。而且,日本公共图书馆开展商务支援服务工作一直恪守服务大众的宗旨和公益性原则。这些独到的方式和方法都可以给我国公共图书馆的商务信息服务提供启示和借鉴。     

日本公共图书馆商务支援服务的成果及存在问题

经过近十年的发展,日本公共图书馆的商务支援服务取得了长足的进展,在某些方面也取得了较大的成果,但也存在一些问题,如尚未得到普及推广,宣传力度有待加强,由于公共图书馆存在资源配置不均衡现象,造成开展商务支援服务的图书馆中,市区级以上的占绝大多数,町村级别的则极少等。文章采用文献普查、网络调查、比较分析等研究方法,对日本公共图书馆商务支援服务的成果及存在问题进行了比较系统的研究。     

试析日本公共图书馆商务支援服务的现状:经验及启示

日本公共图书馆的商务支援服务的出发点是振兴区域经济发展,其服务对象既有企业又包括具有商务需求的个人。十余年来,日本公共图书馆的商务支援服务取得了一定成绩,同时也促进了公共图书馆服务质量的提升。但尚存在一些问题,如未得到普及推广,开展力度不均衡现象等。日本公共图书馆的商务支援服务给我国的启示:对商务信息服务进行合理的定位、建立健全商务信息服务的合作机制、建设商务信息资源的导航库、培养商务支援服务的专业人员等。     

日本图书馆界参与实施著作权法的研究与借鉴

当代图书馆活动与著作权法的矛盾日益突出。围绕著作权法的修订，图书馆和著作权拥有者的争论不断。考察日本图书馆界参与著作权法的修订、实施及其对图书馆信息服务的影响，对于我们把握著作权法与图书馆工作的关系，具有重要借鉴价值。     

关于特色图书馆理论与实践若干问题的思考

本文概述10年来中国图书馆界特色文献与特色服务的理论研究与实践活动，指出了特色图书馆发展进程中存在的问题以及应坚持的原则，并展望了其未来发展趋势。     

日本公共图书馆的残障读者服务及启示

日本的残疾人福利事业和图书馆事业一向走在亚洲乃至世界的前列,日本公共图书馆的残障读者服务已有近百年的历史,其服务形式多样,全国公共图书馆开展残疾人服务的比例也比较高,典型例证有国立国会图书馆“盲人图书、录音图书全国综合目录”、日本图书馆协会残疾人服务委员会、Sapie等。日本公共图书馆残障人士服务得到全社会的共同关注,服务细致周全并有表现突出的领导机构,值得我国图书馆界开展残障读者服务借鉴。表2。参考文献16。     

区块链技术及其对图书馆发展的变革性影响

[目的/意义]阐述区块链技术的发展背景,并在分析区块链技术去中心化、数据可靠以及自动化三大技术特征的基础上,根据美国图书馆界以及学术界的实践与研究成果,总结区块链技术对图书馆的变革性影响,从而提出我国图书馆应对区块链技术变革的对策。[方法/过程]利用文献调研法和比较分析法进行研究,一是从资源维度,分析区块链技术对图书馆新型元数据系统建立、数字资源确权以及资源共享等层面的影响;二是从服务维度,分析区块链技术对图书馆传统借还书服务、科研服务以及服务绩效评价等层面的影响。[结果/结论]我国图书馆界在图书馆区块链技术应用标准制定等层面远落后于国外,但是基于我国目前互联网企业的技术能力以及区块链产业的蓬勃发展,我国图书馆界具备了应用区块链技术的后发优势。因此,我国图书馆界应该加强与互联网企业、区块链技术公司以及相关产业上下游的联系,积极应用区块链技术,开展相关的软件应用以及实践活动,不断改善自身的服务内容与质量,积极拥抱区块链技术变革。     

图书馆核心价值的探索与思考

近年来国际图书馆界的一项重要活动，就是研究与确立图书馆核心价值，中国图书馆界也正式启动了研究与建立图书馆核心价值的活动。文章认为，图书馆核心价值是相对持久不变的价值，数量不宜多，诠释应具有时代气息，其表述方式虽然有所差异，但归根结底还是：服务与保存。     

高校图书馆服务创新的启示

高校图书馆以其资源、技术、人才的优势在图书馆界处于主导地位,在引领图书馆界的创新方面起到了重要的作用。近年来,高校图书馆的服务创新方式主要有：手机图书馆、学科化服务、阅读推广活动及信息共享空间等。文章通过对这些创新方式的介绍和分析,揭示了服务创新的核心价值带给我们的启示,旨在为其他类型图书馆的服务创新提供借鉴和帮助,并以此来探究未来图书馆的发展趋势。     

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.