Finding the Right Place to Live:

People move for reasons as varied as economic necessity or the desire to improve their quality of life. Research has shown that moving can be an extremely stressful life event. Libraries can reduce the stress of relocation by providing to those moving information about the area to which they are relocating. Sources and information seeking strategies appropriate to gathering information related to the history, geography, demography, cost of living, climate, educational system, and the cultural, religious, and political environments of different areas, especially smaller cities and towns, are discussed.     

知识权利与图书馆制度——制度图书馆学研究

图书馆不仅是一种机构,而且是一种制度。图书馆制度是为了保障公民知识权利而选择的一种制度。图书馆制度保障的公民知识权利,主要有知识自由、平等、共享的权利,以及知识休闲权利。机构范式和制度范式是图书馆学的两大范式。以制度范式为核心的图书馆学研究就是制度图书馆学研究。参考文献18。     

The Uneasy Relationship of Self‐Critique in the Public Art Institution

Reacting to the gradual neoliberalization of the European public art institutional landscape, actors within a number of critical art museums and galleries have attempted to reform their institutions from within through a process that is largely commensurate with Chantal Mouffe's radical political strategy of ‘critique as hegemonic engagement‐with’. This article focuses on Manuel J. Borja‐Villel's attempt to implement such a strategy at the Museu D'Art Contemporani, Barcelona (MACBA) in the early 2000s. Through an examination of two key projects – Las Agencias (The Agencies) (2001) and Com Volem ser Governats? (How do we want to be governed) (2003‐2004) – it considers the efficacy of such an approach. In so doing, it calls into question the public art institution's ability to perform a self‐critique when embedded within the hegemony of the neoliberal order and constrained by bureaucratic institutional limitations. It concludes by noting that Mouffe's strategy of engagement does not give sufficient consideration to the dependence critical public art institutions have on local and national political support and its funding channels, making them extremely susceptible to instrumentalization. In response to this constraint, it makes the recommendation that, rather than curbing their experimentation, these critical actors should embrace the potentially temporary status of their institutions, and intentionally push them to and even beyond their bureaucratic limitations.     

识天时,得地利,积人和——实现政府对图书馆的职责

本文通过对我国公共图书馆事业发展现状的剖析,从天时、地利与人和等角度,分析了在推动实现政府对图书馆职责过程中,图书馆所具备和缺少的基础和条件。在此基础上提出了推动实现政府对图书馆职责的关键。     

大众媒体当代艺术报道的困境和悖论

新世纪以来,当代艺术日渐成为大众媒体上的一个常规报道领域.但是当代艺术的含混以及当代艺术生态的复杂都使得这个领域充满争议性和不确定性.文章从这一报道领域的悖论性入手,分析了当代艺术报道与艺术界、社会公众之间的矛盾和相互关系.当代艺术是一个非常特殊的报道领域,用普适的新闻价值和新闻规范去要求,将失去针对性并流于空洞说教,只有增强对这一领域悖论性的理解和探究,才能有的放矢,促使大众媒体的当代艺术报道以更加自省的意识去呈现当代艺术.     

Some Theory for the Conservation of Contemporary Art

ABSTRACT

This article analyzes different ontological categories and how they relate to the conservation of contemporary art. Faced with the necessity of apprehending the work of art from an ontological point of view, a theoretical approach is made on the concepts that most affect the conservation of contemporary art: quiddity, truth-authenticity, identity, quality, consistency, and interpretation. These are analyzed from an empirical perspective, based on the experience of conservation and restoration. Since conserving and restoring require making decisions that will affect the material and conceptual plane of the works, several possible paradigms that must be introduced into the deontological code of the profession are analyzed. In addition, the study of a new paradigm is provided, that of the death of the work of art. This paradigm can serve as a frame of reference, given the impossibility of bringing the ‘Truth’ of the artwork into the world of the sensitive. This may occur due to different conditioning factors and limitations of a material, technical, or intentional type, which affect issues that were once established as essential to the entity. On the other hand, different types of time that are related to the conservation of contemporary art are studied: biological time, the eternal present of the work, time as a constructor agent, and destructive time as a facilitator of the appearance of ruin or ruin-relic in the work of art.     

The Ephemeral,the Essential and the Material in the Conservation of Contemporary Art: Decision-Making for the Conservation of a Work of Art Made with Butterfly Wings

This article presents the intervention process carried out on a work of art created by artist Yolanda Gutiérrez Acosta, using a series of ephemeral materials such as butterfly wings and agave thorns. The work, an installation from 2002, is entitled ‘Efímeras’ (‘Ephemera’) and consists of 12 flowers mounted on acetate sheets and attached to the same with vinyl acetate copolymers and acrylic acid esters (Mowilith®). These flowers are installed on the floor in a bed of dried flowers. The conservation of contemporary art can lead to some previously unimaginable problems for restorers. Current works of art are somewhat material in nature, but they also have a conceptual dimension that is essential for their artistic interpretation. The artist’s participation in the decision-making process prior to the restoration was quite useful. The passage of time, its effect on the work, and the need to understand the possibility of the demise and destruction of the work were implicit as of the onset of its creation, such that, according to the artist, we are forced to reflect upon the possibilities of its future state.     

现代传媒环境下大众文化对当代绘画艺术的影响

大众文化作为一种商业文化，必然遵守商业原则，这直接导致了艺术创作者的物化意识。阿多诺则认为艺术应保持对日常生活意识形态的批判姿态，艺术应该具有对日常生活加以启迪和拯救的责任。     

Interpretation and the Role of the Viewer in Museums of Modern and Contemporary Art

Abstract What does the term “interpretation” mean when it's encountered in museums of modern and contemporary art — and is something missing? Studies conducted by the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and the University of Leicester in England reveal that visitors want more information about art. In this article, interviews with the directors of the Phillips and the Walker (as well as other museum professionals and academics) examine interpretative practices today and suggest plans for tomorrow. When preparing future interpretive materials, the author advocates that museums expose visitors to the idea that they make their own meaning when viewing art.     

《一个干净明亮的地方》现代艺术风格之浅析

海明威是美国具有深远影响力的小说家之一,其作品多反映人们孤独却顽强的人性以及自尊,反映残酷的现实中人们的生活状态,《一个干净明亮的地方》从其主体至艺术性的表达技巧方面都渗透着海明威式的风格。本文从艺术风格出发,论述小说《一个干净明亮的地方》如何体现海明威的高明写作策略。