从建设世界城市的高度加强首都档案工作

本文通过对北京建设世界城市规划的介绍,就建设世界城市过程中首都档案工作需要加强服务、增强档案部门的交流与合作力度、档案信息资源共享工作提速、城乡一体化建设过程中档案部门对产生的问题作出及时应答、引导新兴科技示范区档案工作、加强档案干部建设等方面问题进行了论述,以期首都档案工作能更好地服务于世界城市建设。     

对提升档案工作在世界城市文化建设中贡献率的几点思考

本文以朝阳区为例,提出从提高档案信息承载力、档案前端控制力、档案资源建设力、档案信息服务力、档案决策参考力、档案社会教育力入手,提高档案工作在建设世界城市、提升区域文化软实力的贡献率。     

From third world to one world: Problems and opportunities in documenting new Christianity

Christianity is undergoing fundamental changes in terms of cultural shaping and geographic distribution, yet North American libraries are not responding to these transformations. This article indicates why libraries must respond to the changing religious and cultural situation with strong collection development initiatives. It analyzes particular problems of acquiring Third World Christian documentation. Collection development objectives are formulated which take account of the needs of North American scholarship and of the production and supply of Third World materials. Finally, cooperative acquisitions methods are recommended.     

Among the eminent,the aspiring,and the young: A short history of new world writing

New World Writing, a magazine founded by New American Library in 1952, quickly became an important vehicle for liberal intellectual and literary thought. In addition to providing an outlet for new writing, the magazine became an important acquisitions tool for NAL. Throughout its lifetime, New World Writing remained a showcase for many of the finest writers of the 1950s, including Christopher Isherwood, Louis Auchincloss, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O’Connor, Jack Kerouac, and Gore Vidal. He is the author of Under Cover: An Illustrated History of American Mass Market Paperbacksand Heavy Traffic and High Culture: The New American Library as Literary Gatekeeper. He is working on a study of American literary agents     

Books: Seekers and persuaders in a brave new world

Rhetoricians have historically been compelled to consider the pragmatic role of intentional obsurity in human communication. This essay examines the highly cohesive directions for obscurantist style in the works of three Hellenistic critics: Demetrius Dionysius of Halicarnassus, and Longinus. Aristides’ encomium To Rome is analyzed briefly to illustrate rhetorical practice which parallels the ancient obscurantist theories.     

Analysis of the Russian,Eastern European,and Eurasian Studies Collection at Miami University Libraries

A collection analysis project was carried out on the Russian, Eastern European, and Eurasian studies collection at Miami University Libraries. The collection serves a diverse population of scholars and students. These constituents vary in discipline and in reading level of Russian and other Slavic languages. The goal for collecting for this area is to reflect this diversity of disciplines and languages, as well as to follow the collection development policy. The project thus had two objectives: to determine how well the collection supports users’ needs and how well it reflects the collection development policy. A very simple process for data gathering was used to determine the number of items in each subject, the items’ language, and the number of checkouts and in-house uses. The results showed some discrepancies between the policy and the predominant language of the collection, as well as a lack of use among materials in languages other than English.     

Rave new world: Librarians and electronic acquisitions

This paper focuses on the role of librarians in the technological environment of the future. The accessing and collecting of information generated by electronic means and distributed by new electronic media and the attendant challenges presented to acquisitions and collection management librarians are discussed here. Librarians will experience changes in expectations of products and services of vendors and publishers. Vendors and publishers will make changes in what they offer to libraries to stay competitive in an age of electronic information exchange and delivery. Acquisitions librarians will find themselves straddling two worlds, the traditional and the electronic, to meet the information needs of contemporary library users.     

世界传播新格局下中国传媒面临的机遇与挑战

20世纪中叶以来世界传媒业发生了一些新变化,突出表现为传媒业的迅 速发展以及发达国家与发展中国家的差距不断拉大。在世界传播的这种新格局下,中 国传媒业迅猛崛起,在总量方面和人均量方面都实现了快速追赶,缩小了与发达国家的 差距。中国传媒业发展的战略目标是:成为世界传媒强国,并在国家发展中发挥重要作 用。根据这一战略目标,结合中国发展的新环境和新任务,笔者提出中国传媒业所面临三大机遇和三大挑战。     

Original order in the digital world

This article expands the concept of original order and presents two systematic views of the order of electronic records. In one view, abstract conceptual order can be used as guidance for the physical arrangement of records storage media and intellectual arrangement of records through a software interface. In the second view, organising electronic records entails managing the relationship between electronic records and the paper records in the same collection, between electronic records and their metadata, among different electronic records, as well as managing the relationships among the different copies, different versions and different captures of the same electronic records.     

Academic library marketing in the post-COVID world

The COVID pandemic forced academic libraries to quickly and dramatically adjust their operations. This article explores how marketing in academic libraries was represented in the research and practitioner literature during the pandemic through an examination of articles published between March 2020 and March 2023 as compared to LIS marketing articles published in the three previous years (between March 2017 and February 2020). Marketing was selected as the lens through which to examine library and information science (LIS) articles because marketing strategies and techniques offer powerful insights into how libraries perceive themselves and the communities they serve. The 2017–2020A set included 165 articles, while the 2020B–2023 set contained 93 articles. These articles were inductively coded to identify marketing-related concepts and themes. The most common marketing themes from the per-pandemic article set were marketing strategies and planning, marketing methods, social media, outreach, and engagement. The most common marketing themes from the pandemic article set were social media, marketing strategies and planning, library instruction and orientations, marketing methods, and perceptions of libraries. The categories that experienced the largest levels of change between the two periods were engagement (a reduction of 12.67 % during the pandemic), marketing methods (a reduction of 11.75 % during the pandemic), marketing strategies and planning (a reduction of 10.75 % during the pandemic), outreach (a reduction of 9.11 % during the pandemic), and library instruction and orientations (an increase of 8.44 % during the pandemic). Recommendations for library marketing practice are provided based on this literature analysis including the use of multiple physical and digital communication channels when developing marketing strategies; the importance of continuing to market core operational services, especially during challenging times; the need for libraries to regularly review their engagement methods as the needs and behaviours of users shift; and that there are many ways in which the voice of the user and the effectiveness of library marketing activities may be captured.     

Communication,culture and the growth of the individual self in third world societies 1

The paper examines the social impact of communication technology applying the insights of sociologists such as Durkheim, Mead and Shils. It argues that the introduction of modern communication technology to Third World societies has resulted in the sudden and rapid increase of ‘social density’ or social relationships by bringing to the consciousness of individuals issues and personalities outside their immediate experience. In some Third World societies this has resulted in the emergence of a heightened individual self‐identity in order to understand and give meaning to new and unfamiliar situations created by the media. The socio‐political consequences of this new self‐identity for the plural societies of Asia is examined using the media‐image of Mahatma Gandhi in pre‐independent India.