Employability Skills,The Student Path,and The Role of The Academic Library and Partners

This case study explores the introduction of a university wide employability program by the World of Work Careers Centre (WOWCC) at Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU). The article reports the background against which an employability program was implemented; the justification and growing demand for more emphasis on employability skills in graduates; references the changes in academic libraries and services delivered; and, how these changed enabled WOWCC to work in consultation with the libraries to ensure a seamless and successful mode of delivery.     

Delivering a MOOC for literature searching in health libraries: evaluation of a pilot project

In an era when library budgets are being reduced, Massive Online Open Courses (MOOC's) can offer practical and viable alternatives to the delivery of costly face‐to‐face training courses. In this study, guest writers Gil Young from Health Care Libraries Unit ‐ North, Lisa McLaren from Brighton and Sussex Medical School and Liverpool University PhD student Michelle Maden describe the outcomes of a funded project they led to develop a MOOC to deliver literature search training for health librarians. Funded by Health Education England, the MOOC was developed by the Library and Information Health Network North West as a pilot project that ran for six weeks. In particular, the MOOC target audience is discussed, how content was developed for the MOOC, promotion and participation, cost‐effectiveness, evaluation, the impact of the MOOC and recommendations for future development. H. S.     

中国省域公共图书馆资源的优化配置——基于发展效率差异及收敛的实证分析

[目的/意义]逐步实现基本公共服务均等化是构建社会主义和谐社会重要目标之一，而公共图书馆区域间均衡发展是公共服务均等化和社会公平的重要体现和实现手段。以效率动态变化及其收敛为切入点，探讨我国省域公共图书馆资源的优化配置具有重要意义。[方法/过程]基于"十二五"期间我国31个省域公共图书馆的面板数据，以Malmquist-DEA模型中的全要素生产率为衡量指标，首次综合采用σ收敛和β收敛检验方法，探讨我国公共图书馆发展效率差异及收敛问题。[结果/结论]我国公共图书馆效率初步摆脱负增长局面，其动力主要来源于技术效率的改善；全国和三大区域公共图书馆效率整体呈现σ收敛；公共图书馆效率在全国层面存在β绝对和条件收敛，但在西部和东部不存在β绝对收敛；三大区域公共图书馆效率均存在β条件收敛，公共图书馆效率收敛存在"中部洼地"现象。影响效率收敛的因素具有显著的区域异质性，公共图书馆未来发展需要针对性地制定发展战略。     

Springer电子书的白皮书解读

编译解读了施普林格出版社发布的系列电子书调研白皮书报告,也比较分析了施普林格的电子书使用过程中,英国利物浦大学与中国上海大学的使用差别。通过深入分析将有助于图书馆及其他机构开展相关研究时作参考。     

Technological opportunity discovery for technological convergence based on the prediction of technology knowledge flow in a citation network

As technological convergence has recently become a mainstream innovation trend, technological opportunities need to be explored in heterogeneous technology fields. Most of the previous convergence studies have taken a retrospective view in measuring the degree of convergence and monitoring the converging trends. This paper proposes a quantitative future-oriented approach to technological opportunity discovery for convergence using patent information. In a future-oriented approach, technological opportunities for convergence are suggested by predicting potential technological knowledge flows (TKFs) between heterogeneous fields. The potential TKFs are predicted by a link prediction method in a directed network, which is suggested in this paper to represent the direction of the predicted TKFs by adapting the concept of bibliographic coupling and edge-betweenness centrality. Converging technological opportunities are proposed as incremental and radical technological opportunities by extracting the potential increased knowledge flow links and emerging knowledge flow links. Moreover, the direction and themes of the predicted potential TKFs are provided as technological opportunities for convergence. As an illustration of the proposed method, the technological opportunities between biotechnology (BT) and information technology (IT) are explored. Firms and researchers can use the proposed method to seek out new technological opportunities from various technologies so that R&D policymakers can plan new R&D projects on technological convergence.     

On-demand publishing in the Humanities: project

This article describes the ‘On-Demand Publishing in the Humanities’ project, funded by JISC as part of the eLib programme, at Liverpool John Moores University. The principal aims of the project were to develop a ‘cheap and cheerful’ model for networking electronic texts, to develop a model agreement for the networking of copyright texts for use with publishers, and to shed light on the problems and benefits of on-demand publishing for all the stakeholders involved. The article sets out the project methods, describes the extent to which the aims of the project have been fulfilled, analyses the reactions of end-users to the materials, and attempts an assessment of the current viability of on-demand publishing as a means of supplying copyright texts to students.     

Developing Social Media to Engage and Connect at the University of Liverpool Library

ABSTRACT

This case study presents the Liverpool experience of using social media as an academic library to enhance audience engagement and create a community of users. It looks at the development of social media in the library, focusing on the concerted effort to grow followers and develop a meaningful use of these tools. It considers the value of taking a team approach, ensuring a diversity and breadth of output. Using social media effectively enables libraries to connect with users in a space they already occupy and bring added value to existing activities. A strong, well maintained social media presence enhances a library's national and international profile and ensures good on campus relationships with main stakeholders. This case study demonstrates the relevance of social media as a communication channel and the importance of selecting the correct platform depending on audience or aims. A literature review and recommendations based on experience are included.     

REPURPOSING OF CONTENT IN MULTI-PLATFORM NEWS PRODUCTION

One of the characteristics of convergence journalism is the prominence of repurposing of content. This article analyses news production processes at the Norwegian public service broadcaster, NRK, through the concepts of genre and adaptation. Convergent, or cross-media, news journalism involves media content travelling across media boundaries. As different media platforms use different sets of sign systems (audio, video, writing, images and graphics), this requires some form of translation or adaptation. This article analyses some examples of audiovisual content that travels across media platforms; mainly from television and radio to the Web, but also between radio and television. News content made for a specific programme on a specific platform, with a characteristic rhetoric, is adapted in part or as a whole to be republished on a different platform with a different rhetoric. In conclusion, the article outlines a typology of different forms of repurposing in cross-media news journalism, expanding on those found in Dailey et al.'s (2003) “convergence continuum”.     

The Form of Content Personalisation at Mainstream,Transatlantic News Outlets: 2010–2016

ABSTRACT

In October 2016 the New York Times announced new content personalisation features for its websites and mobile apps, with the promise of “much more to come”. This article examines such developments via a quantitative content analysis of personalisation features at 15 major news outlets in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Germany and via interviews with senior editorial staff at some of those outlets. Both websites and mobile apps were studied, allowing comparisons to be made across platforms as well as geographically. Longitudinal comparisons were also made against an equivalent survey conducted in 2010. The results reveal significant changes over the last six years with, for example, rises in personalisation on mobile platforms, falls in the use of recommendations by friends, and convergence and commodification in content recommendation platforms. This study provides evidence to support continued debates on classical concerns such as selective exposure, but also raises new concerns about the effects of personalisation, including data protection and security issues.     

Examining China's triple-network convergence plan: Regulatory challenges and policy recommendations

Technological convergence has challenged the wisdom of regulators around the world for years, especially since the boom of the internet in the early 1990s. Different approaches have been proposed to replace the legacy “silo” regulatory model. This is now a compelling issue in China, the world's largest developing country. The historical separation between telecommunications and television and the strict “silo” type of regulation have resulted in an asymmetric market where phone companies control the conduit and broadcasters dominate the content. However, the Chinese government has turned the convergence of telecommunication, television and internet into a national strategy. According to the State Council's ambitious plan, the Chinese government aims to achieve a competitive converged information industry and an accompanying clear, scientific and efficient regulatory regime by 2015. Drawing on the theory of fragmented authoritarianism, this paper examines China's uneven path to triple-network convergence. Theoretically, this paper complements the existing research on China's information policy, which is mostly one-shot and sector-specific, with a complete treatment of convergence policy evolution that involves both telecommunications and television. Practically, this paper finds that there are two remarkable characteristics in China's convergence policy-making, namely, the causal relationship between institutional and policy change and the consistent policy objectives, which will continue to shape to future to come. Based on the above findings, a sketch of the future regulatory regime and relevant policy recommendations are provided.     

媒体融合的思考与实践

媒体融合是当前运用新技术和新手段创新媒体传播方式、占领信息传播制高点的重要途径,但其面临着忽视传统媒体、融合平台化以及缺乏复合人才等挑战.中华医学会杂志社通过优化内部生产流程、开办新型互动栏目、深度加工数据内容等进行了有益的尝试,探索了媒体融合的一些新模式.当然,媒体融合尚需解决监督管理、版权保护等关键问题,才能获得更好、更快的发展.     

Convergence: An investment perspective

Conclusion  Convergence is a very exciting model and one that holds, unforeseen opportunities. However in the current economic environment, the investment community is hesitant to recommend that communications companies devote many resources in that area. The convergence mode must prove that it can generate revenue and profits. Yet, it is limited to an advertising-supported model—a part of the communications industry that has struggled during the past, year due to the recession. The increased advertising revenue that would be generated by the convergence model is tainted—most likely taking advertising share away from the traditional media segments that are supporting the model. Tied to the convergence model is a high dependency on the Internet. Internet advertising is not local. In addition, financial data clearly illustrates that the Internet has caused profit margins to decrease substantially, something that the traditional media company supporting the convergence model can not allow to happen. Finally, FCC deregulation with regards to television station cap restrictions, cable system operators owning broadcasters in the same market, and cross ownership of newspapers and television stations in the same market, will most likely have a negative impact on the convergence model. If a communications company should decide to go forward with convergence, there are five rules that should be followed:

Management of core resources: The case of media enterprises

Abstract

For media firms, convergence is a strategy for value creation. However, the concept of convergence belongs to a field of media research and practice that still is in a pre‐paradigmatic stage (Kuhn). The aim of the analysis is to contribute to the process towards “normal science,”; where the paradox of conceptualisation is solved and the outcome is guiding research as well as business development. The article introduces the concept of “value creation convergence,”; and discusses its potential as a sixth dimension of the convergence concept in relation to Miège's typology of traditional media firms (editorial, press, and flow) and Stabell &; Fjeldstad's typology of value creation configurations (chain, shop, and network).     

“A Question of Access”

This paper explores the problems encountered in cataloguingand managing a very diverse art collection. In a climatewhere time and financial resources are at a premium, it iscrucial that any software system being set up has longterm potential, and flexibility.The University of Liverpool Art Collections Departmenthas thus chosen to re-develop its existing MicrosoftAccess databases to contain only core data onindividual items, and then set up a more extensivecatalogue, to be published on the World Wide Web, using EAD.     

Enabling customer relationship management: Multi‐channel content model and management for financial eservices

Abstract

This study examines convergence as both a concept and a process. It examines the current state of convergence, various definitions of convergence, convergence practices, and it identifies Seven Observations of Convergence to be used as a strategy for best practices for organizations to integrate new and old media. Everett Rogers (1995) diffusion of innovations and the five stages of the innovation process in organizations, coupled with innovation management research are theoretical foundations used to examine the infusion of technological changes into business practices in the media industry. The study is based on research conducted during the summer of 2002 that included in‐depth interviews, participation‐observation, and archival documents from three leading corporate media groups and convergence pioneers‐Tribune Company, Media‐General, and Belo Corp at their integrated business units in Chicago, Dallas, and Tampa, Florida. The three organizations were selected for field study because they are convergence pioneers that fell under the grandfather clause of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission 1975 cross‐ownership rule and were allowed to maintain ownership of their television broadcast and newspaper business units in the same market.     

论媒体融合的功能

新媒体(媒体融合)已经带来了新闻采写和传播模式的变革,更为人们的传播观念带来了革命性的进步。本文将对新媒介的作用和功能进行分析,为理解和把握“媒体融合”和新媒体提供了一个新的思路和方向。     

基于群体智慧理论的协同标注信息行为机理研究——以豆瓣电影标签数据为例

本文从群体智慧理论出发,构建了协同标注信息行为模型,将协同标注信息行为从宏观层面划分为初始阶段、中级阶段和终极阶段三个子过程;从微观层面划分为发散、收敛和凝聚三个子环节。其中,宏观层面描述了协同标注信息行为由量变到质变的过程,凸显了过程性;微观层面描述了协同标注信息行为中群体智慧涌现的基本过程,凸显了协同性。本研究通过对豆瓣电影标签数据的实证分析发现:基于群体智慧理论的三阶段-三环节模型合理地解释了协同标注信息行为的过程性和协同性;标签标注次数的偏度系数总体呈增长趋势,群体智慧在协同标注信息行为过程中不断涌现;标签引用是整个协同标注信息行为过程中的常态,逐渐形成了稳定的代表群体用户意见的高频标签群;八种协同标注信息行为模式在整个协同标注信息行为的过程中均有发生,但收敛模式较为稳定,发散模式有很大的概率转为收敛模式;协同标注信息行为过程以收敛环节为主,群体用户意见经历由发散向收敛转移,并最终凝聚全局共识、涌现大众分类。研究结果表明,本文的理论模型与研究方法具有科学性,能够丰富协同信息行为的理论与方法体系。     

基于专利数据的技术融合研究综述

[目的/意义] 基于专利数据开展技术融合研究是技术融合研究的主要方式和热点方向,面向为技术融合后续研究工作开展提供参考和启发的目标,对国内外基于专利数据的技术融合研究现状进行较为全面的综述。[方法/过程] 将已有研究按研究内容划分为技术融合测度及预测方法研究、特定领域/多领域间/全领域的技术融合态势测度及趋势预测、技术融合的测度指标研究、影响技术融合的特征因素研究、基于技术融合视角进行技术机会发现以及技术融合与创新的关系研究六类,并对各类别取得的研究成果进行评述。[结果/结论] 基于专利数据开展技术融合研究已经取得一定的成果,但是仍旧存在测度依据不合理、预测方法缺乏验证、全领域研究关注度低的问题,这些问题可通过引入语义关系优化技术融合网络、采用图神经网络技术改进技术融合预测方法、完善全领域技术融合测度和预测方法来解决。     

Protecting Museum Collections from Vibrations Due to Construction: Vibration Statistics,Limits, Flexibility and Cooperation

ABSTRACT

Vibrations due to heavy construction work continue to be a major concern for museums. Although there has been an increase in research on the effect of vibrations on objects of cultural heritage in recent years, selecting measures to protect collections and remain open during construction work continues to be difficult because of a lack of data on what objects can actually withstand, the complexity of vibration loads, and the uniqueness of each situation. The major renovation of the Central Library in Liverpool, UK, which shared walls with the World Museum and Walker Art Gallery, both of which belong within National Museums Liverpool, showed how museums and other institutions can successfully deal with such situations. An integral approach was taken, beginning with an extensive risk analysis to determine which objects could remain on display, which needed extra protection and regular condition monitoring, and which had to be removed. The museums then negotiated a vibration protocol and action plan with the contractors, including continuous monitoring, and trigger levels requiring consultation or work stoppage. Vibration data were also stored and used for later analysis. This integral approach was successful in protecting the collections on exhibition, with only two incidents of reported damage directly related to vibrations. A combination of museum staff experience, excellent communications with the contractors, and some flexibility in defining vibration limits provided a successful recipe for both museums. The analysis of the vibration data using the basic engineering concept of the Palmgren-Miner rule, supports a more flexible approach to setting vibration limits based on recently published guidelines.