中国当代藏书家的风采

从吉林省两位藏书家上官缨和杨庆祥的生平事迹、藏书经历和藏书风格等3个方面入手,介绍了其一生爱书、读书和藏书的情趣,展示了当代藏书家的风采.     

记吉林省十大藏书家之首上官缨

上官缨,吉林省作家,分别荣获吉林省和长春市两届藏书家榜首等殊荣,2003年当选为长春市第二届评选藏书家评委。他节衣缩食地访书、淘书,乐此不倦,60年来读书不厌、购书不休。虽无善本,但称得上“万卷楼主”,也是吉林省首位将个人全部藏书移交给图书馆的藏书家。他痴迷于读书、藏书,收藏图书3万册,每一部书都记录着他求书的艰辛,也诉说着半生的追求与情趣。上官缨原名潘芜,1931年生在宾县,成长在桦南。十几岁时,便父母双亡,只读了两年多的小学,就缀学务农。1946年参加工作时,尚不足16岁,当时他是本村的儿童团长。后来所用的笔名上官缨,就是纪…     

云南古代佛教寺院藏书文化

云南古代寺院藏书随着佛教和佛经的传人而兴起，在吸收汉文化经籍的同时也逐渐形成了自己的寺院藏书特色、体系，寺院藏书在云南古代藏书体系中占有重要的地位。对云南古代寺院藏书体系形成和发展因素，寺院藏书时代特征及寺院藏书内容作了分析，并对其历史价值作了简要概述。     

历代藏书家图书“共读共享”思想述评

中国古代藏书大体上可分为官府、寺观、书院和私人藏书四大类型，各种类型的藏书皆有独特的标准、范围和阅读对象，藏书仅为特定人群服务，是极少数人的专利，极少对公众开放。这种封闭的藏书观念一直是古代藏书思想的主流，限制了图书的充分利用，也限制了文化传播和普及。直到近代，西方公众图书馆模式传入中国，中国才有了真正意义上的图书馆，图书“公之于世”，公众皆有机会借阅，藏书始发挥最大效用。     

馆藏文献布局略论

微观的藏书布局，就是图书馆藏书的划分或书库的划分。藏书布局是否科学，将直接关系着藏书能否被充分地利用，能否更好地满足读者的需要，关系到图书馆服务质量的高低和图书馆社会效益的好坏。文章探讨了传统藏书布局、三线典藏制布局和阅览室三线藏书。     

高校图书馆藏书剔旧工作之我见

文章阐述了藏书建设中的图书别旧工作的必要性，论述了藏书别旧工作的内容、原则和方法，并提出了藏书别旧工作应注意的问题，强调了今后图书馆藏书剔旧工作要经常化、制度化。     

论元代私人藏书

本文比较了元代和北宋、南宋私人藏书的数量和藏书家的人数，指出元代私人藏书在两宋的基础上，略有发展；揭示了元代私人藏书家的社会身份、元代私人藏书家的地理分布及对明清私人藏书地理分布格局的影响；论述了元代藏书家对私人藏书的保存、利用，元代私人藏书散佚的原因。     

黄虞稷藏书考略

黄虞稷是明末清初著名藏书家、目录学家和历史学家，本文论述了黄虞稷藏书来源、藏书内容、藏书楼建制、藏书管理、藏书流通等情况。     

三宋官府藏书机构和官职的设置——北宋藏书文化研究系列之二

北宋官府藏书的机构众多，按藏书性质大致可分为朝廷藏书机构、皇室藏书机构、其他藏书机构三类。其中皇室藏书机构多达十余处，为历朝官府藏书机构之最。其官职设置也很繁杂，等级繁多，任职条件近于严苛，是升任高官大员的必经资历，“一经此职，遂为名流”。这些为造就北宋在藏书文化史上的辉煌，打下了基础。     

苏州藏书家的藏书印

藏书印在藏书和藏书史上有重要的价值，一方镑刻精致的藏书印可以将汉字的魅力展现得淋漓尽致，简直可以称的上是一件艺术品。在版本学方面，藏书印是鉴定版本的必要依据之一；在藏书史方面。借助藏书印。我们可以了解一部书的收藏流传过程。本文浅述了苏州藏书家藏书印的种类及印文内容，从而有益于苏州藏书文化的研究和古籍爱好者对藏书的鉴赏。     

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.