Decision Making for Collection Management

Just as the collection development policy is based on the objectives, scope and goals of a library, so is the broader collection management policy. Collection management goes beyond a policy of acquiring materials to address policies on retention, discard and weeding, preservation, and housing. A clear policy for each stage of materials handling contributes to the long range success of collection development. The author also points out the costs involved with each of these activities that library administrators must be aware of for effective management of the collection.     

文化管理:中国图书馆管理的战略性选择

目前图书馆的现状是经验管理、科学管理两种模式并存，而科学管理占主要地位。图书馆的性质、特点和数字化图书馆的发展趋势，以及读者需求的变化等决定了图书馆必须选择文化管理。文化管理要求我们必须在管理的民主化、人性化，服务的社会化、个性化，以及图书馆机构设置方面作出变革。     

Strategies for Digital Television: DTT in Italy

Italian broadcasting has long been terrestrial. Its main shortcomings (spectrum chaos, non-enforcement of the law and market concentration) were considered not conducive to a rapid and reliable diffusion of digital terrestrial television (DTT). In 2005, the private free to air duopolist Mediaset entered the pay television market with an offer on DTT and, within a few years, has proved to be a fast-growing operator, threatening the established satellite incumbent (Sky). This evidence apparently challenges the received wisdom of the literature and the business practice. With the aim of explaining these peculiar market dynamics, this article examines the operators' strategies, controlling for the institutional side and the policy. A few main points stand out. First, the enduring spectrum chaos has not significantly hampered Mediaset, nor was spectrum a binding constraint, thanks to biased regulation. Second, the entrant crafted a coherent and gradual “premium content” strategy, fine-tuning its evolution in accordance with the platform diffusion. Third, the public policy for digital TV served as a supporting complement to the private strategy. In particular, being biased, it favored the diffusion of DTT over rival platforms, and benefited its main pay-TV offer. Overall, our analysis uncovers a complex and unique national case, rooted in an effective, albeit contentious, public–private interplay. Consequently, the Italian case does not convincingly challenge the received wisdom on DTT.     

Television reviewing: A search for criteria

New communication technologies have increased Europe's importation of foreign, especially U.S., broadcasting programs. This essay addresses the question and protection of cultural identity from a European perspective. Four subgoals of diversity are outlined as yardsticks for the appropriateness of protection. Various activities designed to deregulate European broadcasting may potentially increase or reduce diversity. The economic and political pressure to weaken the European trusteeship model of broadcasting is likely to be successful.     

Beyond Control: Accessioning Practices for Extensible Archival Management

Accessioning has long been one of our profession’s least visible, discussed, and critically examined activities. This article analyzes our scholarly literature on the subject, revealing an absent theoretical framework and a marked over-reliance on static assumptions about what accessioning entails, to the detriment of both archivists and our collections. The case study that follows describes the creation of an accessioning program at New York University and posits a model of accessioning situated in the context of holistic archival administration, based on both theory and practice, and informed by access-driven workflows and iterative processing strategies.     

数字化过程中的管理决策与技术建议

在文献数字化的输入阶段,模数转换方式、扫描模式和分辨率的选择,是决定数字化源图像质量的关键,而源图像质量将直接影响创建于屏幕显示、打印及其派生的图像质量等。由此,提出扫描对象与最小分辨率的建议、图片数字化的格式化建议、文献数字化模式和技术指标。表3。参考文献8。     

Television Doctors: An Analysis of Physicians in Fictional and Non-Fictional Television Programs

Although fictional television traditionally has portrayed doctors positively, recent fictional programming appears to portray physicians in a less positive manner. It has also been suggested that these images may conflict with depictions of doctors found on non-fictional television. A content analysis conducted here indicates that television's physician portrayals are less positive than they were in 1992, contemporary genres differ in their physician depictions, and television's doctor portrayals do not differ according to sex or race.     

市场营销决策支持系统中模型库的设计与管理

介绍MMDSS、MB以及MBMS；使用面向对象的方法和模型的动态链接对模型进行创建与管理；同时介绍模型库与数据库的一种接口模式，并利用ADO和VC++内嵌DSS语句来表示其实现过程。强调用户管理和联系实际，例举线性盈亏平衡分析、目标利润预测等多个市场营销实例对所使用的技术进行说明。     

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.     

Asking for Numbers and Quantities: Visual Design Effects in Paper&Pencil Surveys

When reporting frequencies and quantities in self-administeredsurveys using open-ended questions, respondents make use ofestimation strategies in order to provide a reasonable response.Accordingly, respondents do not only report pure numbers usingdigits, instead they extend their response to alphanumeric informationand explicit estimates (e.g. "about 10–20 cigarettes perday"). Such responses are not only of reduced quality, but theyalso require a lot of editing and cleaning in the post-fieldphase of a survey. While previous methodological work on frequencyquestions has focused on question wording, reference periodsand other text elements that have traditionally been consideredsignificant for high quality frequency responses, in this articlewe test the impact of various graphical characteristics of theresponse field in order to reduce the number of alphanumericelaborations and explicit estimates. The field-experimentalstudies reported are based on the assumption that respondentsinterpret formal characteristics of frequency questions as meaningfulinformation throughout the question answer process. The findingsreported will help survey designers reduce the proportion ofestimated responses. Received for publication October 24, 2007. Accepted for publication August 12, 2008.     

Automation Support for Collection Management and Control

The Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, R&D arm of the National Library of Medicine, has had under development a minicomputer based INTEGRATED LIBRARY SYSTEM (ILS). ILS Version 1.0 has recently become operational and supports modules for master bibliographic file (MBF) creation and processing, circulation control, and serials check-in. A major emphasis in the design of the ILS has been on collection management and control. The present implementation supports "intelligently" assigned bar-codes for both monographs and serials from the MBF. The barcodes contain sufficient information about each item to provide efficient processing and allow easy use of portable devices for inventory control. In addition, unique functions have been included to allow identification of temporary item locations as well as to allow the compilation of statistics on items removed from the shelf but not circulated. The potential impact of these features on collection management will be discussed.     

信息安全管理的多目标决策效用模型研究

根据信息安全管理决策的复杂性特点,运用多目标信息效用理论,构建了信息安全管理决策的多目标信息效用模型。该模型的建立对于理顺安全管理决策多目标之间的关系,实现信息安全管理决策的科学化,具有十分重要的现实意义。     

Chapter VII: Decision Rules for Access

ABSTRACT

The Interlibrary and Document Delivery Services Department of the Randall Library at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington has been an active user of Innovative Interfaces Inc.'s ILL Module. Our association started with beta testing in the winter of 1994 and it continues today with release 2000. Since our first use of this module, UNCW has processed around 42,500 borrowing requests. This article reviews the use of the III ILL Module five years later.     

Willingness to Pay for Public Television and the Advent of "Look-Alike" Cable Television Channels: A Case Study

In this case study we examine willingness to pay (WTP) for PBS using an open-ended, single-question contingent valuation method. Using data collected from 128 mail and 101 telephone surveys, we develop illustrative findings with respect to 'look-alike' cable television on WTP for PBS. Inverse demand equations were estimated. Statistically significant effects were found in models estimated with both biased and adjusted data using ordinary least squares, restricted least squares, and Tobit censored regression methods.     

Windowed Distribution Strategies for Substitutive Television Content: An Audience-Centric Typology

An audience-centric typology is conceptualized to assist media managers implementing windowed distribution strategies in an attempt to account for media consumption cannibalization. Diffusion theory identifies the demographics most likely to consume substitutive television content, while uses, gratifications, media habits, and consumption values are collaboratively used to re-segment the audiences based on platform selection motivators. Psychographic labels are then applied using the dominant characteristic of each audience type and then matched to a specific windowed distribution strategy. The strategies are based on existing windowing tactics used by ABC, CBS, FOX, and NBC or emerging strategies that are reflective of changing market trends.     

Information Literacy for Advanced Users: A German Perspective

SUMMARY

This article presents the development and perspectives of improving the information literacy of graduate students at the University of Konstanz, considering the European background with the Bologna process and the general conditions of the German higher education system. It gives a short overview of the current reforms in European higher education and the consequences for information literacy instruction for undergraduates and graduates as well. The situation at the University of Konstanz, with its library being a leading institution in the German information literacy debate, is described explicitly. Some findings of a comprehensive graduate information literacy survey, which was recently realized there, are reported in detail. Further perspectives for graduate information literacy in the context of the library's user services are outlined.