Making Sense of Researcher Services

ABSTRACT

Researcher services have proliferated in recent years and numerous free or fee-based sites now promise increased visibility and impact for authors or contributors of publications and other research products. Not all services have the same goals, however, and it can be difficult to know with which services researchers should engage. In this article we establish three categories (author/researcher identification, academic/professional networking, and reference/citation management) and examine nineteen services that fit into those categories.

Column Editor's Note This JLA column posits that academic libraries and their services are dominated by information technologies, and that the success of librarians and professional staff is contingent on their ability to thrive in this technology-rich environment. The column will appear in odd-numbered issues of the journal, and will delve into all aspects of library-related information technologies and knowledge management used to connect users to information resources, including data preparation, discovery, delivery and preservation. Prospective authors are invited to submit articles for this column to the editor at kenning.arlitsch@montana.edu     

Making Sense of your Usage Statistics

Usage statistics are a key decision making tool for most librarians. In this tactics session, Bob Schufreider showed how some libraries are using their vendor's usage statistics to inform purchase decisions and justify expenses, discussed the latest technologies and standards designed to make collection and integration of these statistics less time-consuming and more effective, and outlined some of the problems and pitfalls encountered with the collection of usage statistics.     

Making Sense of the Seven Communication Traditions

Objective: To identify and differentiate Craig's seven communication traditions and to utilize this framework to understand scientific and humanistic approaches to communication inquiry

Courses: Communication Theory, Research Methods, Introduction to Communication Studies

This activity was presented at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, Boston, MA (November, 2005).     

Part I: Columns and Blogs: Making Sense of Merging Worlds

Abstract

Intellectual property rights are threatened by current trends in publishing and by the changing market. In this presentation, Patricia S. Schroeder, an advocate for intellectual property rights, describes the need for understanding and cooperation and for support for legislation to protect authors' rights.     

Managers Making Sense of Millennials: Perceptions of a Generational Cohort

The study of generational cohorts has seen an increase in popularity in scholarly and popular literature. Millennials comprise the newest cohort to enter the workplace. This study explores how managers use social categorization to make sense of their Millennial-generation employees. Data were collected through interviews conducted with managers in order to learn how they viewed and described Millennials. Twenty-five managers in the hospitality industry were interviewed. Data were analyzed by searching for membership categorization devices (MCDs), then patterns in usage and meaning of the devices were explored. Three patterns were identified in using MCDs to reference Millennials: “kids”, “age group,” and “Millennials”/variations of the term. These findings are examined in reference to how they may inform managerial behavior as well as guide further study of generational cohorts.     

价值哲学视域下的图书馆核心价值浅析

本文从价值哲学的角度探讨了图书馆核心价值。任何一个组织或行业都有它的核心价值,图书馆也不例外。图书馆的核心价值是随着社会的变迁而变化发展的。但是,无论图书馆核心价值内容如何变化,图书馆核心价值始终是社会中一个组织的核心价值,必然以所在社会核心价值为基础,必须服从社会主义核心价值观。     

Making Sense of Intractable Multiparty Conflict: A Study of Framing in Four Environmental Disputes

Ironic statements function rhetorically as evaluations. The purpose of this paper is twofold: (1) to extend our understanding of irony by examining the pragmatics of ironic evaluation in the larger context of the pragmatics of evaluation per se; (2) to argue that the study of irony makes an important contribution to the general epistemology of evaluation insofar as the conditions of knowledge underlying ironic communication serve as standards against which claims of knowing (relevant to the understanding of) conventional evaluations should be held.     

新闻专业主义的伟大重塑:从客观性1.0到客观性2.0

本文通过对"客观性"这一概念的深度辨析,以"客观性1.0"与"客观性2.0"为历史分期重新审视新闻专业主义,并以此为思想基础对当前的美国新闻业进行分析。本文认为,新闻业以客观真实为原则组织起生产行为,这构成了新闻客观性的基础维度;然而,如何将记者本身的价值融入新闻生产之中,探寻一种更稳定、更具阐释力的新闻业,成为当前新闻业的另一核心任务。以这两种生产原则为基础,新闻业或许能够为我们理解并改善当前价值混乱、情感化的社会有所助益。文章进而提出新闻业应当在"后特朗普时代"的观念分裂中致力于坚持自身的专业信念。     

基于"意义构建"理论的农民工信息需求调查研究

以"意义构建"理论为基础,采用深入访谈法对农民工进行了信息需求调查.调查从农民工的客观行为和主观思想两方面入手,发现农民工信息行为过程有一定的规律性,其信息需求实现会遇到内在和外在的诸多因素阻碍,因而进行专门的服务设计和针对性服务管理非常必要.     

科学哲学视域下的情报学

文章将情报学置于科学哲学视域下进行研究。在对科学哲学的发展历程及其六个转向进行简要回顾的基础上,构建了科学哲学与情报学关系模型。模型提出从科学和哲学两条路径探索科学哲学对情报学研究的启示。随后分析了与哲学对应的多元哲学思潮在情报学中的应用情况。最后,尝试性的分析了科学哲学六个转向中的情报学。