谱牒资料的社会意义及文化价值刍议

随着谱牒研究重新成为文化研究热点，搞好谱牒资料的开发利用工作成为当前的紧迫任务，而如何正确、全面地认识谱牒资料的价值则是开发利用工作的首要前提和基础。文章分别从社会意义、文化价值两个方面分析了谱牒资料的独特性和重要性。     

中国古代谱牒档案的发展状况研究

谱牒档案是描述家族姓氏发展情况的档案资料。谱牒档案形成于商周时期,发展于魏晋,发达于唐宋,形成了诸多的著述,到了今天这些档案成为研究中国传统文化的重要资料。     

壮族谱牒档案发轫探究

古壮民族尊祖重本观缺失,没有谱牒文化。壮族谱牒起源于土官谱牒。土官谱牒发端于明,盛于清和民国,并在壮族谱牒发展过程中发挥引领作用,成为壮族谱牒很有分量部分和最早形态。通过探究土官谱牒起因,分析壮族谱牒特点,反映壮族社会群体不断接受、认同汉文化的进程,是壮族社会历史发展必然。     

关于谱牒与档案关系的探析

近年来,关于谱牒学的研究多集中于史学、社会人类学和图书馆学界,而实际上谱牒应归属于档案范畴,谱牒的性质与功能符合档案的定义。明确谱牒归属于档案范畴有助于推动谱牒档案的开发利用,也有助于档案学科研究的进一步完善。     

近二十年徽州谱牒档案研究的回顾与反思

徽州素有"谱牒之海"的美誉。谱牒作为原始资料,可以反映社会历史实态。学界逐渐从不同角度研究徽州谱牒档案,既有对传统领域的承继,也有对新兴领域的探索,出现了对徽商、徽州教育、徽州宗族、徽州文化、家谱理论五大领域的研究。还有诸多领域尚未开垦,要加强分科研究,将谱牒档案数据化、数字化,使学科研究系统化、理论化。     

信以传信,疑以传疑--浅谈谱牒文献作为研究史料的意义与局限性

介绍谱牒文献的源流、特点及其在研究领域的重要价值,论述谱牒文献的意义及其局限性,认为应秉持“信以传信,疑以传疑”的治学态度,充分挖掘谱牒文献的史料价值。     

图书馆谱牒文献研究

叙述了谱牒的概念与起源,结合平顶山市图书馆谱牒收藏的缘起与收藏情况,阐明了收集整理、开发利用谱牒的重大价值.     

谱牒的继承与创新--浅说永登地区的家谱概况

家谱、家乘、宗谱、族谱、世谱总称谱牒。谱牒学源远流长。殷墟出土的甲骨文中就有记氏族的骨片，史学家称其为“甲骨家谱”。商代设有掌管谱牒的官员，并建有谱牒档案。战国时候史官编的《世本》一书，可称得上是我国的第一部谱牒专著。历经秦汉而至魏晋，门阀制度渐盛，谱牒学发展较快，隋唐之前研究谱牒之学的人较多。宋以来，科举盛行，讲究门第出身，家谱渐渐秘藏不示外姓，自此谱牒之学虽然渐衰，但是历经元、明、清、民国至今，并没有消失，它时衰时兴，仍在传承、发展、创新之中。　　谱牒是中国宗法血缘文化的产物，是属于史学的范…     

文化遗产保护视野下谱牒档案的抢救与保护

谱牒档案的抢救与保护应从树立谱牒档案保护意识做起,同时,应摸清家底,为谱牒档案的抢救与保护奠定基础;遴选技术,为谱牒档案抢救与保护提供方法支持;多方筹措,保证谱牒档案抢救与保护的经费投入。     

论苏锡常地区图书馆谱牒资源的共享与服务

论文分析了苏锡常图书馆收藏谱牒文献的现状及特点，阐述了三市图书馆谱牒资源及服务共享的必要性，提出了谱牒资源及服务共享的策略及方法手段。     

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.