Providing Dental Current Awareness to Faculty and Residents

Providing a current awareness service to patrons has long been a concern of many health sciences librarians. Dental librarians have a unique challenge in providing current awareness to patrons as the literature has not always been available in a timely manner through traditional systems. This article will discuss the evolution of current awareness systems, the issues facing dental librarians with regard to providing dental current awareness, and how the Wilson Dental Library addressed those issues.     

Making Reference Service Count: Collecting and Using Reference Service Statistics to Make a Difference

This article describes an online system to collect, store, analyze, and report reference statistics. Information is entered at the point of service in a Web-based interface located on the computer desktop of each librarian. When record keeping and reporting processes were customized, automated, and made accessible to librarians, the data collected proved invaluable in tracking trends in reference service, monitoring library initiatives, and providing reference librarians information for analyzing and assessing their professional activity.     

Building a Digital Library: What to Expect as a Technology Project Manager on a Library Construction Project

Column Editor's Note. This JLA column posits that academic libraries and their services are dominated by information technologies, and that the success of librarians and professional staff is contingent on their ability to thrive in this technology-rich environment. The column will appear in odd-numbered issues of the journal, and will delve into all aspects of library-related information technologies and knowledge management used to connect users to information resources, including data preparation, discovery, delivery and preservation. Prospective authors are invited to submit articles for this column to the editor at kenning.arlitsch@montana.edu.

The Taylor Family Digital Library is the central library opened in 2011 at the University of Calgary dedicated to supporting digital scholarship, creativity, analysis and a supportive learning environment for students. The new building is a technologically advanced converged cultural institution, with mandates to continually evolve in order to meet the needs of students and researchers. The infrastructure to support these mandates required research, collaboration and intense planning, resulting in new construction and technology standards for library renovation and construction projects. This pragmatic article is written for those who will follow in similar footsteps; it provides a roadmap for those embarking on the construction of a new technologically advanced library building.     

WEB环境下多源数据的集成服务--以清华大学新期刊导航为例

基于web环境下开放与协作的理念,提出了图书馆应用多源数据开展集成服务的思路,并以清华大学新版期刊导航为例着重介绍了多源数据的选择、抽取、加工以及集成应用的具体方案。     

Service matters: Single Service Point as a collaborative and professional learning initiative for service excellence

ABSTRACT

Changes and innovations in higher education learning and teaching acted as a catalyst for rethinking the way in which service was delivered to library clients at Australian Catholic University. The Single Service Point was piloted at one campus library in 2014 to develop a best practice approach to service delivery. The merging of cultures within the library environment was achieved through committed leadership, with staff agreeing on shared values and goals and applying the university mission. All staff were responsible for seeking solutions to challenges and becoming autonomous in their professional development and training. Overall, in a Single Service Point model, service efficiency, excellence, and quality increased through staff teamwork, contribution, and collaboration.     

图书馆馆员服务意识弱化现象分析及其对策

本文从当前图书馆部分馆员存在服务意识弱化的现象入手，阐述了馆员服务意识弱化的表现，分析了服务意识弱化产生的原因。提出了加强馆员素质教育、改善馆员的工作、生活和学习条件等方面的对策。     

如何有效地开展阅读推广服务:网络游戏升级制度的引入与启示

在简述网络游戏对大学生影响基础上,通过对网络游戏升级制度的探析,阐述在图书馆借阅制度引入升级机制的设想和可行性分析,探讨读者服务升级计划的设计及读者对此的态度,以期给不断探索读者服务的图书馆提供思路和参考。     

我国高校图书馆社会服务调查研究——基于南京地区25所高校图书馆社会服务调查

[目的/意义] 针对目前高校图书馆社会服务过程中存在的问题,通过考察一个地区的高校图书馆社会服务实践,提出对策建议,为我国高校图书馆服务社会提供决策依据和参考。[方法/过程] 以南京地区25所本科高校图书馆为研究对象,通过访谈法与网络调查法等实证研究方法调查分析其社会服务内容以及在社会服务过程中存在的一些问题。[结果/结论] 调查结果显示,南京地区高校图书馆社会服务主要对象为高校用户和区域内其他科研单位,呈现出明显的倾向性与针对性;在服务社会的过程中也存在着资源缺乏、非竞争性资源和服务的受惠面过于狭窄等局限。为今后高校图书馆更好地开展社会服务提供了事实依据。     

以信息资源建设助推大学图书馆"十四五"知识服务能力提升——以中国人民大学图书馆为例

[目的/意义] 通过中国人民大学图书馆(简称“人图”)“十四五”发展规划中信息资源建设及知识服务相关内容介绍,分享人图在大学图书馆信息资源建设对知识服务能力的推动与支持方面的做法。[方法/过程] 概括“十三五”期间信息资源建设成果;分析图书馆当前面临的发展环境;探究“十四五”信息资源建设重点;介绍人图“十四五”发展规划中有关信息资源建设和知识服务相关内容。[结果/结论] “十四五”期间,要持续加强高校图书馆信息资源建设,它是提升图书馆学科知识服务能力的助力与支撑。     

高校图书馆深度嵌入本科专业教学支持服务体系构建——以工程教育专业认证支持服务为例

[目的 /意义]面向工程教育专业认证,构建高校图书馆支持服务体系,发挥图书馆资源与服务优势,促进学科建设和国际化工程人才培养.[方法/过程]通过分析专业认证通用标准7项指标中高校图书馆可深度嵌入支持服务的内容,对12项毕业能力要求进行逻辑划分.基于三维度双层次模型(3D2L模型),从3个维度、两个层次、6个方面以大连理...     

从文献资源共享到服务共享——图书馆2．0共享新模式研究

对于图书馆的共享问题,长期以来都是图书馆行业的理想。由于管理模式、共享体制的设计、文献知识产权保护等因素,图书馆长期以来奉行的“文献资源共享”并没有达到理想状态。文章认为,在图书馆2．0时代——读者的时代,图书馆应更加关注“读者服务”,发展以用户为核心的服务共享,因此,图书馆可以尝试借鉴银行业的银联模式,按照“平等、统一、共享、参与”的原则,构建基于文献服务的图书馆共享新模式。该文为2009年第五期“重庆大学图书馆2．0实践”专题文章之一。     

图书馆线上图书漂流服务的实践与思考——以济南市图书馆“书来书往”平台为例

[目的/意义] 图书馆开展线上图书漂流服务可以打破传统服务局限，激活社会上的海量闲置图书资源，解决国内现有图书漂流活动或平台存在的诸多问题。[方法/过程] 对济南市图书馆主导搭建的"书来书往"线上图书漂流平台的产生背景、主体及母平台、功能、使用方法、规则、运行情况、资金支持情况、获奖情况、用户评价等进行详细介绍，分析该平台相对于国内现有图书漂流活动或平台的优势及目前平台存在的问题。[结果/结论] 图书馆开展线上图书漂流服务应在借鉴"书来书往"平台经验的基础上做好以下几点：实现多入口操作、重视图书可追溯性、提升社交服务、打造全国性品牌。     

Becoming an Andragogical Librarian: Using Library Instruction as a Tool to Combat Library Anxiety and Empower Adult Learners

Andragogy refers to theory specific to teaching adults, as opposed to pedagogy, which refers to the teaching methodologies used to instruct children. Popularized by adult educator Malcolm Knowles, andragogy relies on 5 basic tenants: adult learners are self-directed, they possess life experience that informs their learning, they possess a desire to actively participate in the learning process, their learning needs to be relevant to their lives, and they are highly motivated to learn. A review of the literature in library science (specifically library instruction) and adult education aims to arm librarians with a working knowledge of andragogy. This is an especially important undertaking as adult learners are becoming a much larger student demographic at colleges and universities around the world, and the specific needs, characteristics, and anxieties of adult learners are often overlooked. Instruction librarians’ most valuable tool for working with adult learners is bibliographic instruction. Effectively designed sessions can alleviate the library anxiety of adult learners and empower them to become better students.     

Using ICTs to create a culture of transparency: E-government and social media as openness and anti-corruption tools for societies

In recent years, many governments have worked to increase openness and transparency in their actions. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are seen by many as a cost-effective and convenient means to promote openness and transparency and to reduce corruption. E-government, in particular, has been used in many prominent, comprehensive transparency efforts in a number of nations. While some of these individual efforts have received considerable attention, the issue of whether these ICT-enabled efforts have the potential to create a substantive social change in attitudes toward transparency has not been widely considered. This paper explores the potential impacts of information and ICTs – especially e-government and social media – on cultural attitudes about transparency.     

The Librarian as a Member of the Education Department Team: Using Web 2.0 Technologies to Improve Access to Education Materials and Information

The part-time solo librarian at St. James Healthcare in Butte, Montana, serves physicians, staff, patients, and other health care professionals in the area. The library is part of the Education Department within the hospital's organizational structure. Recent developments have expanded the requirements of the Education Department, creating new challenges. The librarian is a member of the team developing solutions to the many ways that continuing education needs have to be met for the staff and physicians. A free website that houses education information and material is one of the projects that has been created and is maintained by the librarian.     

图书馆有偿服务的新探索：书刊代租服务

The service of being commissioned to rent books and periodicals is a new approach to paid services of the library profession.It alliviates,to a certain extent,various contridictions emerged due to short funds.Also it suits the change of values and attitudes held by the readers,meeting their needs of reading and paid communication of personal books and periodicals,thus breaks through the traditional and long-standing mode of proinding services with the support of the library holdings.     

运用JCR和Web of Science了解学科发展状况——以核科学与技术科学为例

熟练运用数据库检索系统有利于期刊编辑快速把握学科的发展动态.以核科学与技术科学为例,说明利用Journal Citation Reports和Web of Science数据库可以了解某一领域关注度较高的期刊,科研工作领先的国家,研究工作突出的作者团队,便于编辑快速把握学科发展动态,以便约得高质量的稿件.