Building a Learning Culture for the Common Good

SUMMARY

Librarians are well positioned to embrace the journey towards a learning culture; we have resources and we have incentive! Teetering on the edge of information technology, libraries are committed to continuous change for the benefit of our customers. To fulfill this promise, staff must keep pace with new technologies, products, and an increasing demand for new services in an environment with shrinking human resources. There is more to learn and less time in which to learn it. This paper describes a proactive, team-based approach used to create a learning culture in one library. Staff act as peer learners and teachers to educate themselves and each other about all aspects of their reference work such as approaches to service, orientation for new members, learning and evaluating new tools, and discussing the development of new services. The whole is greater than the sum–this dynamic, shared learning environment embraces diverse learning styles including discovery, discussion, demonstration, presentation, homework, questioning, and hands-on practice. Analysis of feedback from students and challenging questions at the reference desk grounded the experience and made it immediately relevant and useful. This strategy furthers the goal of the learning organization where members share the responsibility of learning. The outcomes are an enriched collective knowledge and understanding, a sustainable model for continuous learning, social connectivity, and team experience.     

利用Sakai平台建立个人学术资源管理系统

利用Sakai教学平台中的资源工具可检索、管理和共享学术资源,该工具提供搜索Google学术、新建引文、导入引文等三种基本方式在Sakai系统中构建个人资源/引文库。利用Sakaibrary项目成果,通过简单的XML语言,就可调用图书馆元搜索引擎,检索馆藏资源,实现与图书馆订购资源的整合。可针对课程站点、项目站点、资源文件夹和每一条资源设置不同的资源维护和共享权限,并可选择多种途径实现资源的全文永久访问。     

央企重组改制形势下档案工作发展新机制研究

文章以中国航空工业集团公司的档案工作为例,提出了如何在央企重组过程中创新档案工作发展机制.具体包括:档案工作体系的搭建与完善、科学处置档案信息资源、“重组”企业信息,发挥资源整体优势等三个方面.     

谈网络信息资源的编目

当前图书馆对网络信息资源编目的途径有二 :调整已有MARC格式 ,适应网络资源编目新特点 ;创建一套全新的编目格式DublinCore。实现二者之间的转换映射是网络信息资源编目亟待解决的课题之一。表 1。参考文献 3     

Rethinking the Library Game: Creating an Alternate Reality with Social Media

In recent years, libraries have made efforts to create games, often for the purpose of information literacy instruction. Games can provide an interactive alternative to traditional instruction by introducing research tools and resources while also teaching problem solving skills within a collaborative learning environment. Despite the benefits, the limited resources of most libraries make it difficult to build games that appeal to a generation of students accustomed to games like World of Warcraft. It is a challenge to find a balance between the right format and the available skills and assets. The desire to create an engaging game within the confines of existing resources led the University of Alabama Libraries to create the Web-based alternate reality game Project Velius. Serving the research needs of faculty and more than 30,000 students, the University Libraries are a vital part of Alabama's oldest public university. University of Alabama librarians leveraged popular social media sites and applications, including Facebook and YouTube, along with the story-driven alternate reality game format, to build a game that would engage undergraduate students. The game's two main goals were to provide informal information literacy instruction and highlight important library resources, balanced with the desire to provide a fun and interesting game experience. In the creation and execution of Project Velius, the librarians-turned-game developers learned much about this new medium, including the complexity of writing a compelling story, the importance of precisely tracking player progress, and the need for an easily re-playable game. Looking forward, the successes and shortcomings of this initial project will guide the plans and, through this article, hopefully help colleagues understand some of the challenges and rewards.     

Determining the Key Dimensions for Evaluating Service Quality and Satisfaction in Academic Libraries

ABSTRACT

Offering quality services and evaluating the rate of success in providing users with target services is the pervasive importance of academic libraries. The central purpose of this study is to determine key dimensions of service quality and satisfaction through developing a new item-scale for evaluating service quality and satisfaction in academic libraries. For primary data collection the study used a 28-item instrument based on five dimensional modified version of SERVQUAL. Respondents were asked to indicate their degree of opinions in the three-columns format: desired service expectation, minimum service expectation, and perception of service performance on a 7-point Likert-type scale. The researcher initially conducted a pilot survey to clarify the overall structure of the questionnaire items to be accepted and used. The reliability of the analysis of data with distinct service attributes were taken from ten public and private university libraries in Bangladesh. Subjecting data obtained to exploratory factor analysis shows that academic library service quality and satisfaction is related to four basic dimensions: caring, competence, resources, and library as a place. Twenty-six service items were identified after extraction through exploratory factor analysis, where nine items were shown before “caring,” five items for “competence,” seven items for “resources,” and five items for “library as a place.” The result in fact provides a generic and robust instrument and recognizes a new item-scale, namely “real service expectation” for the librarians and information science practitioners in the assessment of service quality and satisfaction in academic libraries and in the related fields.     

学科馆员参与资源建设的探索与创新

论述北京大学图书馆学科馆员如何在梳理、评估、展示馆藏学科资源的基础上,通过资源评估和调研为采购提供信息,借助专业课程为师生整合资源,发掘免费资源补充馆藏,由点及面,逐步满足读者的资源需求。同时,介绍学科馆员跟踪学科发展趋势,为高校学科资源规划提供前瞻性建议,促进学科资源建设发展的情况。     

科学发展观与高校图书馆员的继续教育

用科学发展观对图书馆员进行继续教育,是新世纪图书馆的必然要求,深刻认识图书馆在人力资源建设中的重要性,为广大图书馆员创造有利条件,不断地培养专业人员,壮大图书馆管理队伍,适应新的需要。     

Journal editorship index for assessing the scholarly impact of academic institutions: An empirical analysis in the field of economics

Assessing the scholarly impact of academic institutions has become increasingly important. The achievements of editorial board members can create benchmarks for research excellence and can be used to evaluate both individual and institutional performance. This paper proposes a new method based on journal editor data for assessing an institution’s scholarly impact. In this paper, a journal editorship index (JEI) that simultaneously accounts for the journal rating (JR), editor title (ET), and board size (BS) is constructed. We assess the scholarly impact of economics institutions based on the editorial boards of 211 economics journals (which include 8640 editorial board members) in the ABS Academic Journal Guide. Three indices (JEI/ET, JEI/JR, and JEI/BS) are also used to rank the institutions. It was found that there was only a slight change in the relative institutional rankings using the JEI/ET and JEI/BS compared to the JEI. The BS and ET weight factors did not have a substantial influence on the ranking of institutions. It was also found that the journal rating weight factor had a large effect on the ranking of institutions. This paper presents an alternative approach to using editorial board memberships as the basis for assessing the scholarly impact of economics institutions.     

基于区块链技术的家藏图书流通平台研究

佛山市图书馆邻里图书馆项目运营两年多的经验表明,家庭藏书是公共图书馆文献资源的重要补充,将家庭藏书纳入公共图书馆同一平台流通是一个新课题。为了探究家藏图书在流通管理中信任不足的问题,文章设计了基于区块链技术的家藏图书流通平台。平台兼具资源整合、个性化推荐、信用构建及实时监控等功能,旨在盘活社会文献资源,构建多元共建、协同共治的高可靠性自动管理和生态运作服务模式,形成公共图书馆服务模式的全新生态。     

Faculty Orientation to Off-Campus and International Campus Locations

Following in the same tradition of seamlessly providing access to library resources to our remote users, our campus has now taken the next logical step in also providing an orientation for new faculty teaching online as well as those teaching at our international campus locations. Without this type of orientation program, new faculty often feel isolated and left to navigate various systems, including library resources, the learning management system, student information systems, early alert tools, etc., completely on their own. Providing an orientation to this audience helps bring them together and allows them to acclimate to the various campus systems in an easier and much-less frustrating manner.     

A usability analysis of municipal government website home pages in Alabama

This study uses e-government and corporate usability benchmarks to compare municipal government websites in Alabama and examine correlations between usability scores and population, as well as usability scores and per capita income. E-government in Alabama is on the rise. At the state level, in 2008, Alabama ranked in the top 10 states in e-government after three years of being in the bottom three. Improvements in state-level e-government have not, however, necessarily trickled down to the municipal level, and this study found no correlation between usability and a municipality's population or per capita income. Indeed, the study reveals substantial problems with municipal website usability, including accessibility; such problems could erode the web credibility of municipalities trying to engage citizens, to create or strengthen sustainable practices, and to attract companies that can bring new jobs and improve the local economy.     

Developing a Marketing Orientation in Hospital Library Services: A Case Report

When the four Providence Health & Services libraries in Oregon regionalized services and resources, the transition, which was originally met with apprehension from some library users, turned out to be a resounding success. Despite a loss of two-thirds of the professional staff and a decreased budget, the new regionalized library experienced an increase in business and recognition. While many factors contributed to the success, a creative marketing and outreach campaign was a key component. This column describes the steps taken to promote regionalized library reference services and online resources.     

“一带一路”视角下档案资源开发利用的实践探索——以面向东南亚为例

在“一带一路”倡议下,面向东南亚开展档案资源开发利用工作还存在着开发、服务、宣传等方面的不足,需要进一步开创档案利用服务的新模式,积极探索档案开发的新路径,加强档案开发利用的合作化和国际化,为“一带一路”建设提供档案文化的有力支持。     

Knowledge management practice: Application in commercial banks (a Review)

Modern financial institutes operate under conditions of growing competition and limited resources, which requires a decrease of time for decision making. The knowledge of bank officers is becoming an important resource that needs to be taken into consideration, on a par with other material resources. Some results of knowledge customization are considered: concept mapping, communities of practice, ontological models, and corporate blogs. Examples of applying new information technologies in foreign banks are given.     

引文用于评价学术网站的可靠性及可行性研究

针对网络学术资源内容涉及面广、形式多样且分布现象复杂,传统的同行评议方法及一些定性评价指标难以付诸实践的现状,提出一个新的评价学术网站功能的量化指标--网站被文献引用数,并通过实证分析及理论阐述论证该指标用于学术网站评价的可靠性及可行性。     

Nine Years after Implementing the Unthinkable: The Cessation of Periodical Check-in at the University of Nevada,Reno

In 2001, librarians at the University of Nevada, Reno, carried out what some considered a radical experiment in the library world: an end to the check-in of print periodicals in exchange for allocating staff resources to support electronic resources. Nine years later, the authors assessed current print serials management practices in a new and changed environment through a survey and interviews. This article presents the assessment results, discusses the directions taken over the years, the benefits and challenges, and offers suggestions for other libraries interested in exploring such a project.     

The Suitability of Web Analytics Key Performance Indicators in the Academic Library Environment

As the demand for library assessment grows, academic libraries are becoming more interested in Web analytics. Data are automatically gathered and provide information about a wide variety of online interactions. Libraries have long used simple counts such as visits and page views, but have more recently begun to choose strategic benchmarks, also known as key performance indicators (KPIs). Many common KPIs were created for commercial websites and are challenging to adapt for libraries. However, the underlying concepts are sufficiently valuable that libraries should explore their use. By evaluating the validity of web metrics, libraries can further the development of standards and benchmarks to support future investigations. This article discusses how commercial web metrics might be adapted for use in academic libraries. First, the limitations of web analytics are presented. Major key performance indicators used in the commercial sector are reviewed in the academic library context. Finally, the article discusses how the various indicators might support specific library website goals and decisions and uses local data to illustrate one example case. As libraries choose web analytic methods, they should deliberately evaluate their validity. Over time, this will slowly build the profession's ability to use web analytics more effectively for library assessment.     

新时代高校图书馆红色文化资源开发探索与实践——从四川大学"学习书屋"谈起

为把红色资源利用好,把红色传统发扬好,把红色基因传承好,四川大学图书馆以习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想服务专区“学习书屋”为示范,立足“大资源”,构建“大平台”,取得“大成效”,走出了一条新时代高校图书馆红色文化资源开发的新路子。