Online Catalogs and the User

Online catalogs are more than an extension of the card catalog. They are something entirely new and under continuous de- velopment. Although users are enthusiastic about online catalogs. their ositive attitude may change unless certain problems are cor- rectef The library profession should develop specifications for on- line catalogs that w~ll help eliminate user problems. Online catalogs interact with the user and can give himlher a sense of control if more modes of access for effective retrieval are designed. Online catalogs of the future should be more efficient if librarians have greater input in their design.     

Lessons from a Joint-Use College/University Library

Community college libraries are deeply underrepresented in the professional literature and organizations of academic librarianship. As a result, the challenges and successes that take place in the community college world are largely invisible to others. This JLA column lifts the curtain to reveal the uniqueness of community college libraries as described by their most passionate advocates: the librarians who work there. Articles in this column pay tribute to the commitment and creativity of community college librarians by providing a platform where they can share their professional perspectives and stories. Want to write for this column? Interested authors are invited to submit articles to the editor at kimreed@cwidaho.cc.

Joint-use libraries aim for the most effective use of resources in supporting the needs of multiple institutions, whether high schools, colleges, or universities. However, these streamlined organizations are challenging to design, complex to administer, and often suffer from staffing conflicts and territorial disputes. In this article, the author describes a successful model of a joint-use library, The University Library of Columbus, whose multilayered evolution has generated a multi-institutional library that serves students from a community college, a university, and a technical college. By describing the history and development of their model, as well as details about their agreements and functions, the author shares tips and provides guidance for those who may be developing future joint-use models.     

Lessons Learned from Katrina: What Really Matters in a Disaster

SUMMARY

While life's everyday occurrences in libraries leave us with a disaster situation, nothing could have prepared libraries for the magnitude of Hurricane Katrina. Devastating winds, flooding, and destruction to the area infrastructure required a type of response seldom experienced. By revisiting the responses in minor to catastrophic disasters, there are lessons to be learned. Some lessons serve as a source for prevention for potential disaster situations, rehabilitation in localized disasters, and reinvention when libraries are reduced to rubble.     

论图书馆数据容灾

介绍了图书馆数据容灾的现状和存在的主要问题，列举了图书馆数据灾难的种类及容灾技术的基本原理。讨论了图书馆数据容灾的构建模式，对图书馆容灾的不同要求，提出了图书馆容灾系统的部分解决方案。     

Preserving Content from Your Institutional Repository

Between institutional repositories and hosting journals, many libraries are becoming responsible for scholarly content in new ways. While Portable Document Formats (PDFs) are the most common formats today, the unique, local, serial content could be in a variety of formats. These items might be digitized text, born digital text, audio, video, images, or multimedia. This article discusses formats that will remain accessible through time (PDF/A, txt, xml) so that contents are not locked into proprietary formats. It will also discuss options for backing up items and associated metadata, including simple backups, off-site storage of files, Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe (LOCKSS), Private LOCKSS Networks, and Portico. The article offers suggestions for how your library might best preserve local content.     

Rebuilding a High School Library Collection After Hurricane Katrina

SUMMARY

After Hurricane Katrina struck, many friends, fellow librarians at all levels, alumni, and others came to help in our rebuilding efforts at Benjamin Franklin High School. I developed an action plan that covers stages in the rebuilding process. It is extremely important that a librarian remain focused and flexible in all rebuilding efforts. The plan, procedures, process, needs assessment, and current educational, library, and technological trends are important to successfully rebuild a library. Librarians faced with any kind of disaster are encouraged to use the steps presented as a guide or modify them in rebuilding other libraries.     

Why We Are Not Google: Lessons from a Library Web site Usability Study

In the Fall of 2009, the Moraine Valley Community College Library, using guidelines developed by Jakob Nielsen, conducted a usability study to determine how students were using the library Web site and to inform the redesign of the Web site. The authors found that Moraine Valley's current gateway design was a more effective access point to library resources than a mock-up site which incorporated a central-search box on the site homepage. This finding stands in contrast to the observed trends of library Web site design that emphasizes a “Googlized” search.     

论高校图书馆联盟的灾难管理

针对＂5.12＂汶川大地震对四川高校图书馆造成的重大损失,提出了在建立高校图书馆联盟的过程中引进灾难管理的构想,并以四川高校图书馆界的灾难管理为例,探讨高校图书馆联盟灾难管理的运作内容。     

试论图书馆地震等突发地质灾害的应急对策建立

论述图书馆地震应急预案建立目的与任务是：更好地疏散人员,组织营救,保护馆藏,降低损失以及预防一系列次生的灾害。指出图书馆在建立地震应急预案时应该提高认识,加强图书馆员工和读者的危机教育,唤起大家的防灾减灾意识;重视馆舍建筑物的建设质量;增设紧急预警设备和制度以及异地备份馆藏重要资料。     

战略规划中的公共图书馆营销

在图书馆经费持续压缩的背景下,通过营销主动彰显价值对图书馆日益重要,应从战略规划高度予以重视。文章以公共图书馆以及图书馆专业组织的50份战略规划文本为对象,采用内容分析、案例分析和比较分析等研究方法,从整体和案例两个维度观察战略规划中图书馆营销的术语和内容两个层面的发展变化。所选案例包括发布3份以上战略规划的加拿大多伦多公共图书馆、中国台北市立图书馆、广州图书馆和美国公共图书馆协会。文章就面向"十四五"或2030的战略规划应如何考虑通过战略规划更好地布局和落实图书馆营销并实现其价值进行了探讨。     

Coming Back from Disaster: Progress to Date and Next Steps at Elliot Lake Public Library

In this article, I do two things. First, I describe and evaluate progress that has been made to date on implementing five recommendations made by the author to the leadership of Elliot Lake Public Library in 2014, intended to assist in disaster recovery efforts following the destruction of the library in an anthropogenic disaster in 2012. Second, I provide three revised recommendations, this time intended to assist library leadership address some continuing challenges that are preventing the complete recovery of the library, and ultimately, negatively impacting the effectiveness of the library within the community.     

Validity and Comparability of Public Library Data

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构建高校图书馆读者服务工作质量管理体系

从图书馆时代发展和本身保持可持续发展需要的角度出发，提出构建质量管理体系的议题．阐述了构建高校图书馆读者服务工作质量管理体系的计划、实施，开展优质服务。     

对图书馆灾难管理的思考

对国内外灾难管理研究现状进行了分析,并结合四川“5．12”汶川大地震,分别对灾难管理的应急预案、应变举措和组织协同三方面的相关问题进行了思考。     

Connecting Faculty Candidates with the Library: Lessons Learned from the Literature and the Field

This paper illustrates how liaison librarians can pursue influential relationships with faculty candidates in their liaison departments during the interview process. Although these interactions tend to be meet and greets, the impression that they leave may assist a potentially new faculty member when evaluating the campus environment and climate. This essay explores the relationship that academic librarians can develop during the hiring process for faculty candidates in their liaison departments, and the continued collaboration post-hire for the successful candidate. Literature for librarian outreach has been synthesized to present suggestions for strategies to engage with faculty candidates during the interview process and to further develop these relationships post-hire.     

The Aurora Public Library Business Resource Center:

The Business Resource Center represents the Aurora, Colorado Public Library's response to a tremendous growth within the business community over the past decade. This essay details what factors led to the decision that a separate service point was needed to meet this growth. Issues discussed include what statistical data proved helpful in developing a plan of action; collection development considerations; analysis of factors concerning library functions and service; and, initial reaction from patrons and staff. The study is also presented as a model for other medium-to-large suburban libraries intending to initiate a similar project.     

Library Marketing on a Small Liberal Arts Campus: Assessing Communication Preferences

As part of a newly created library marketing plan, librarians at the College of Wooster undertook a study of the communication preferences of students, faculty, and staff in early 2015. The results of the survey helped to develop a comprehensive picture of what library resources and services these constituencies are interested in learning about, as well as when, where, and how they prefer to learn about them. This article describes the development, distribution, results, and analysis of the survey, and highlights the importance of campus-specific library marketing practices.     

When Disaster Strikes: Opportunities for Community and Institutional Renewal at Elliot Lake Public Library

On June 23, 2012, the Algo Centre Mall in Elliot Lake, Ontario, collapsed suddenly, killing two people, injuring many more, and destroying many of the community’s services, including the public library. After describing the events leading up to, during, and following the destruction of Elliot Lake Public Library, I discuss five opportunities for community and institutional renewal that are not currently being realized by the library. The destruction of the library need not be an entirely negative experience but, rather, a catalyst for refocusing the library’s role and improving its services and facilities in order to better meet the changing information needs of the community.     

The 2004 and 2005 Gulf Coast Hurricanes: Evolving Roles and Lessons Learned for Public Libraries in Disaster Preparedness and Community Services

SUMMARY

In the aftermath of the 2004 and 2005 Gulf Coast hurricanes, public libraries played many important roles in their communities, though ensuring access to vital information may have been the most critical service. This article explores the participation of public libraries in the recovery of their communities, the implications of this involvement for the place of public libraries in society, and lessons learned and recommendations for public library disaster planning. As this article demonstrates, public libraries successfully provided a range of disaster preparedness and recovery services that were not provided and could not have been provided by other government agencies.     

基于图书馆联盟的协同容灾机制研究

近年来重大灾难频发,图书馆作为信息资源的集散地,面临数据损毁和丢失等的危险,容灾显得异常重要。基于图书馆容灾的现实意义,指出图书馆联盟为协同容灾提供分布式地域、技术平台、组织合作的现实条件,最后从具体实现和保障因素两方面阐述基于图书馆联盟的协同容灾机制。