Why Your Academic Library Needs a Popular Reading Collection Now More Than Ever

This article reviews the literature concerning the use and perception of podcasts as an information resource within higher education and libraries. Three types of podcasts are defined: institutional podcasts, episodic podcasts, and audiobooks. All podcasts share common issues concerning discovery and access and digital curation. The authors suggest that podcasts should be included in academic library collections, as research has shown that podcasts are becoming a trusted information resource.     

数字时代:内容何以为王--解读中国广电之数字化转型进程

本文就数字技术带来的中国广播电视内容的生产、运营等所发生的重大变革作了详尽阐释与分析。包括 :一、数字时代 ,内容瓶颈尤为突显 ;二、数字技术 ,激发内容变革 ;三、角色转换与格局变迁 ;四、管制颠覆与管制重建。     

More Than Just Low-Hanging Fruit: A Collaborative Approach to Weeding in Academic Libraries

This article focuses on using collaboration to develop and implement a comprehensive and systematic approach to weeding in a small academic library. Collection assessment, analysis of options, and determination of feasibility form the basis for the development of the weeding agenda. Collaborative strategies that include the creation of a collection management committee, the formation of weeding teams, and the inclusion of teaching faculty shape the implementation of the weeding project. Finally, the authors address unforeseen problems and the collaborative solutions developed to address them.     

Determinants of Journalists' Professional Autonomy: Individual and National Level Factors Matter More Than Organizational Ones

This article seeks to map systematically predictors of journalists' perceived professional autonomy. On the basis of survey responses of 1,800 journalists from 18 countries, the study tests the extent to which journalists with different backgrounds and jobs, who work for different media and organizations, under different kinds of ownerships and pressures, in democratic and nondemocratic regimes, can perform their roles as society's main providers of information. We demonstrate that predictors of professional autonomy are twofold: comprising journalists' perceived influences on news work, and objective limits of autonomy that exist beyond journalists' perceptions. The latter reside on 3 levels: the individual journalist level, the organizational level, and the societal level. Journalists' subjective perceptions of political, organizational, procedural, professional, and reference group influences proved to be strongest predictors of professional autonomy. Of the hypothesized objective determinants of journalists' autonomy, ownership, editorial rank, and professional experience had the highest predictive value.     

Google and Libraries in Russia: First Experience

The paper describes the Russian library system's current landscape and outlines its relationship with electronic technologies and Internet technologies in particular. The author discusses Google projects in Russia, and then analyzes possibilities for more substantial and elaborate Google activities in the Russian and CIS library and information sector. The paper concludes with specific project proposals.     

More Than Just "Fax":

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Google还是Open Content Alliance,现代图书馆该选择哪一个?

Google和Open Content Alliance相继推出了图书扫描计划方案,这无疑是有益于社会的.面对性质、目的、扫描方案完全不同的两个组织,现代图书馆究竟该选择与哪一个合作,才能更好地发挥自己馆藏的价值呢?文章对此展开讨论.     

浅论Google向学术领域的发展及其对图书馆的影响

文章介绍了Google向学术领域的发展及存在的问题.阐述了在Coogle时代图书馆面临的困境和挑战,指明发扬人的主动精神是图书馆发展的重要出路.     

劳动在一百多个行业

[开场白] "文革"中没有劳动过的人(中青年)几乎没有,可是像我这样到一百多个行业劳动过的,大概也不多. 这段特殊的劳动经历是与我在"文革"中的特殊地位分不开的.什么"特殊地位"呢?简单地讲是两点:一、我没有入派.没入派的好处是两派都不把我往死里整,坏处是两派都不会亲我,保我.二、我的年龄决定我不可能是叛徒、特务、走资派,连个芝麻大的疑点也没有.因此,我公开声称:一、我不是"党内走资本主义道路的当权派",我是"党'外'走'社会主义'道路的'无'权派".二、对我"不可不用,不可重用".不可不用,是因为我不是"三种人";不可重用,是因为两派都不亲我.再加上,我的处世哲学是:对两派保持距离,对两派中的个人没距离.因此,我人缘比较好.     

Google Answers与图书馆网上参考咨询模式

对Google Answers进行考察,从问答模式、收费机制、用人政策和交互机制等方面剖析Google Answers的特点,并与图书馆开展的网上参考咨询服务进行比较分析,提出图书馆网上参考咨询应增加问答模式的灵活性及与用户的交互性,局部尝试引入商业服务的某些合理机制,开展有偿服务;引入约束和淘汰机制,以激发咨询人员的工作热情等。     

To Google or Not to Google,That Is the Question: Supplementing Google Book Search to Make It More Useful for Scholarship

ABSTRACT

This article looks at two different projects, the Google Book Search project and the Text Creation Partnership, both linked to the University of Michigan Library. Though on the surface they are very different, the Text Creation Partnership, a model of cooperation between scholars, librarians, and publishers, may have some useful lessons for how to make Google Book Search more useful for academic research, particularly in full-text searching.     

Stronger Together: Embracing Google and Linked Data in Law Libraries

The MARC format ushered in the age of automation for libraries. However, the standard is dated. The Library of Congress began developing BIBFRAME, a linked data ontology, five years ago to supplant this aging standard. BIBFRAME isn't merely a replacement for MARC; it is the dawn of a new age of automation. Coupled with improved search engines and the open access movement, linked data can revolutionize the way all libraries do business. This article provides an overview of linked data technologies, surveys the early results of a linked data initiative, and argues for the adoption of this technology in law libraries.     

Community Forum: Research Libraries in the Digital Age

ABSTRACT

This dialogue provides a summary and assessment of issues discussed relating to research libraries and research universities in a digital environment.     

图书馆应重视为老年读者服务

本文通过对不同老年读者的心理分析,了解他们不同的阅读需求,对老年读者群体进行分类,开展立体服务。     

Online Emotion Regulation in Digitally Mediated Bereavement. Why Age and Kind of Loss Matter in Grieving Online

The study by media psychologists of emotional communication in online bereavement still leaves many questions unanswered. Previous research has identified similarities as well as differences in emotion regulation patterns of children, adolescents, and adults (Döveling 2015a). Extending that research, this investigation of digitally mediated bereavement goes one step further by exploring additional types of mechanisms within the emotion regulatory processes of coping online. A total of 4 different bereavement platforms, used by mourners of differing ages and kinds of losses, from young children to widowers, were examined in a quantitative content analysis of online postings (N = 1036), generating insights into shared emotion regulation patterns and intimacy online. The findings highlight interpersonal empathy, irrespective of age of the bereaved or type of loss, but also disclose age-based differences in emotion regulatory processes. Implications for further media psychological analysis are laid out.     

Google Scholar与图书馆的文献传递服务

文章首先探讨了GoogleScholar揭示和传递学术信息的过程,在此基础上分析了Google Scholar对文献传递服务形成的挑战和不足,总结了其对文献传递服务发展的启示,包括建立联合目录和统一的检索系统、加入Google Scholar的图书馆链接计划、改进文献传递系统、适当降低文献传递成本.     

感验营销——全媒体时代图书馆营销推广的必然趋势

论文总结了全媒体时代图书馆用户的主体性、主动性和娱乐性特点,发掘了感验营销对图书馆推广的意义,并从感官满意策略、情感满意策略、娱乐满意策略、行动满意策略和文化满意策略等方面对感验营销在图书馆推广中的实践应用进行了分析、归纳。     

BiblioTech: Closing the Gap between Traditional and Digital Literacy

In 2013, Bexar County launched BiblioTech, the first all digital public library in the United States. BiblioTech capitalizes on technology to reach beyond the library walls and integrate the public library in facets of everyday life previously unavailable through paper and print. At its core, BiblioTech changes the traditional understanding of how libraries operate. BiblioTech’s digital model prompts a paradigm shift and challenges the library to seek out new ways to serve otherwise disengaged patron populations.

This article discusses the launch of BiblioTech---its impetus, mission, timeline, and challenges. The evolution of BiblioTech over its first four years of operation is presented, along with various community and intergovernmental partnerships that the library has forged in fulfillment of its mission. Finally, future opportunities and plans for development are also explored.