Responsibility Rolls Down: Public Libraries and the Social and Policy Obligations of Ensuring Access to E-government and Government Information

Access to government information has been considered an essential element of democracy since the foundation of the American republic. Over time, the amount of government information produced has increased significantly, and the rise of e-government has made access to online government information, communication, and services equally vital to participation in society and interaction with governments. However, the outlets of free public access to government information and e-government have constricted over time, leaving public libraries as one of the only free public Internet access points in most communities. As a result, public libraries serve as a social guarantor of access to and assistance with government information and e-government services. This article first discusses the historical evolution of the means of access to government information and changes over time in responsibilities in providing such access. After exploring the interrelationships between government information and e-government, the article then details the development of the role of public libraries as guarantors of e-government access. Finally, the article examines the impacts of policy on e-government access in libraries, leading to a set of recommendations and conclusions to support the vital library roles related to e-government.     

Librarians and Undergraduate Thesis Support: An Annotated Bibliography

This article surveys the available literature to explore the assistance librarians can provide to undergraduate thesis writers. The article begins with a discussion of undergraduate thesis requirements, then presents an annotated bibliography of scholarship on librarians'; work with thesis writers, and concludes with issues to consider for librarians planning to provide instruction and support to undergraduate thesis writers.     

Managerial rhetoric as the metaphor for the World Wide Web

–This article explains how metaphors influence how we experience events, and how the Web, viewed through a different metaphor or lens, currently appears a little less valuable as a tool of education or democracy. Although the Web constitutes a new communication milieu, possessing the potential to revolutionize communication in the next millennium, its rhetoric is currently one of consumerism and capitalism–economic not political ideologies pertain. This article conducts a metaphorical analysis of the World Wide Web positing that the Web might be understood best through a managerial metaphor rather than the current spatial/relational metaphor. Using Sproule's 1988 categories of managerial rhetoric, this article critiques contemporary Web practices in an effort to better understand the Web and its communicative potential.     

从语篇交际功能看科技期刊英文摘要存在的问题——基于语料库的对比与分析

基于涵盖12个理工科学科的科技期刊英文摘要语料库,利用语料库方法对163个语言特征的频率进行因子分析,系统比较了中外科技期刊英文摘要的差异.结果显示,2类摘要在副词、第一人称代词、前置性修饰语以及被动语态的使用上存在显著的功能性差异.国内英文摘要多数不善于使用副词加强语气,有意规避第一人称代词,缺少与读者的交互,而过多的前置性修饰语和被动语态无形中增加了阅读困难,与国际学术界提倡的直接简洁的写作风格仍有偏差.我们分析了造成这些差异的可能原因,并对国内科技期刊英文摘要写作提出建议.     

From Grand Narratives of Democracy to Small Expectations of Participation

This article critically examines the invocation of democracy in the discourse of audience participation in digital journalism. Rather than simply restate the familiar grand narratives that traditionally described journalism's function for democracy (information source, watchdog, public representative, mediation for political actors), we compare and contrast conceptualisations of the audience found within these and discuss how digital technologies impact these relationships. We consider how “participatory” transformations influence perceptions of news consumption and draw out analytic distinctions based on structures of participation and different levels of engagement. This article argues that the focus in digital journalism is not so much on citizen engagement but rather audience or user interaction; instead of participation through news, the focus is on participation in news. This demands we distinguish between minimalist and maximalist versions of participation through interactive tools, as there is a significant distinction between technologies that allow individuals to control and personalise content (basic digital control) and entire platforms that easily facilitate the storytelling and distribution of citizen journalism within public discourse (integrative structural participation). Furthermore, commercial interests tend to dominate the shaping of digital affordances, which can lead to individualistic rather than collective conceptualisations. This article concludes by considering what is gained as well as lost when grand visions of journalism's roles for democracy are appropriated or discarded in favour of a participation paradigm to conceptualise digital journalism.     

共享的价值——泛珠三角区域文化合作中两广作家文库特色数据库建设

文章通过对两广区域文化事业空前繁荣的分析,提出建设两广作家文库特色数据库,对展现两广文化人形象,彰显两广文化成果,了解和利用两广作家文化资源具有积极的作用。此文库建设弥补了该领域数据库的不足,解决了两广作家文库特色数据库建设相对滞后的问题。参考文献4。     

Using a Blended Group Learning Approach to Increase Librarians’ Motivation and Skills to Publish

While there is considerable research on interventions to support academic staff in writing for publication, there is limited literature on writing interventions for librarians. This article explores the potential of a blended learning approach to support librarians to develop the motivation and skills to write for publication. The program combines three elements: a formal writing seminar; a structured series of online exercises and mentoring support; and two peer-feedback days. The article suggests that the combination of online and face-to-face activities has the potential to be a sustainable model for helping to develop librarians as academic writers. It suggests that this type of model could provide a context, which is currently lacking, for librarians to develop their identity and skills as academic writers.     

论书话文体的基本特征

书话文体有三种基本类型,分别是短小精悍的题跋式散文,谈书人书事以及版本考订的小品文,还有书卷气的随笔.     

民国书报检查制度与20世纪30年代上海自由主义知识分子——以胡适为中心

20世纪30年代 [1],国民党当局逐步建立了以上海为中心的书报检查制度体系,上海左翼作家和自由主义知识分子的话语权均遭严重箝制.以胡适为首的自由主义知识分子秉承言论和出版自由的理念,利用当局内部的矛盾和权力罅隙,与国民党当局进行了话语权博弈,进而铸就了现代自由主义文学的内在精神品质.这段被遮蔽的历史,对中国现代新闻出版史和文学制度都有借鉴价值.     

民国时期高校图书馆学研究述评

民国时期,随着高校图书馆事业的较快发展,对理论指导的需求成为必然之势,相关学术研究应运而生。关注这一时期高校图书馆学术研究动态,并对其研究热点及其表征进行梳理和分析,对于完善中国近代图书馆史研究、促进当前高校图书馆学术发展都具有重要意义。参考文献27。     

电子政务与民主政治建设

电子政务对社会的政治、经济、文化等方面产生了深远的影响。由于电子政务的及时性、交互性、透明性,扩大了民主的网罗性以及跨时空性的限制等方面的特点,扩大民主的广度,增加民主的深度,增强对民主的监督,从而对民主产生促进作用。本文分析了电子政务促进民主政治建设过程中的法律、经济、技术与管理、观念与教育等制约因素,并从法律制度、技术、教育三方面提出解决措施。     

网络文学写手现状分析

作为一支新兴力量在网络文学中愈加活跃,通过对概念的解读及网络文学写手在最近十几年的发展简史的介绍,从最初的痞子蔡、宁财神等风靡网络到我吃西红柿、张君宝等新锐的崛起,分析中国网络文学写手的现状--网络文学写手作为一种新兴职业的收入概况、工作情况、版权纠纷、前途命运等问题。本文对于面临的这些问题,的解决方案业也有一定的讨论。通过现在异常繁荣的网络文学现状看到在繁华的背后,本文对网络文学写手作为网络文学的主力军在文学价值方面甚至社会文明方面扮演的角色和网络写手及网络文学的发展做了分析和探讨。     

A FORGE OF CONSENSUS

The Spanish transition to democracy constituted an exceptional journalistic period which started with the death of the dictator Franco in 1975 and finished in 1978, the year in which a new democratic Constitution, currently in force, was approved by referendum. During those years, the Spanish political system changed radically from a dictatorship to a full democracy similar to the democracies enjoyed by Western European countries. This article proves the hypothesis that the majority of newspapers supported the main guidelines of political reform and the strategy of consensus led firstly by the francoist reformist elite and by the opposition political parties afterwards. The research method is a content analysis focused on the introduction of democratic values in newspaper editorials and applied to twelve newspaper titles which covered the ideological spectrum within the Spanish journalistic scene. This piece of research could be likewise considered as a contribution to the particular histories of the analysed dailies during those critical years.     

民国时期商务印书馆儿童读物的出版与阅读

选取了商务印书馆这个出版实体,介绍了民国时期儿童读物的出版情况,进而分析了民国时期儿童阅读的具体状况.     

少儿图书馆的中介读者工作

少儿图书馆的“中介读者”,是指和少年儿童有密切关系的教师、作家、家长和一切为儿童服务的单位、个人。他们在少儿图书馆工作中有着重要作用。要加强为中介读者的服务,提高图书馆员为中介读者服务的水平。     

高校人文学科馆藏资源的保障与结构优化——基于CSSCI的引文分析

以CSSCI收录的2006-2010年之间上海师范大学人文学科教师和学生论文引文为研究对象,通过对中文引文数量、类型、年代、保障情况等方面的统计分析,了解人文学科中文引文特点以及馆藏资源的满足情况,为馆藏资源的发展与建设提供优化思路,即合理布局人文学科馆藏,纸质资源和数字资源合理搭配;扩充人文学科文献建设的广度;加快民国报刊资源的建设。     

The Politics of the Pitch: Claiming and Contesting Democracy Through the Iraqi National Soccer Team

Sport was among the many cultural resources that George W. Bush used to justify rhetorically the need for war in Iraq. Specifically, he sought to capitalize on the unexpected success of the Iraqi national soccer team during the 2004 Summer Olympics. The Bush campaign produced a commercial that aired during the two weeks of Olympic coverage, in which Bush was credited with spreading freedom and democracy throughout the world. Simultaneously, the president claimed that Iraq's participation in the Games was possible only because of American-led action that had toppled Saddam Hussein. Rather than accept this narrative, many Iraqi athletes and citizens responded with anger and resentment towards the United States. This analysis demonstrates the extent to which sport metaphors are implicated in the contests over democracy. Moreover, it suggests that critics must engage the discourses of sport as they articulate with politics in an effort to recover the democratic potential of each.     

The Role of Public Librarians in Disseminating Information for True Democracy

Disseminating information should be the business of public librarians. In a democracy, public librarians are expected to play a leading role in acquiring, processing, interpreting, repackaging, and disseminating relevant, up-to-date, and timely information and knowledge resources both from within and beyond their localities. Public librarians should serve as catalysts for the effective dissemination of information to promote true democracy. They are expected to explore channels of communication for the practice of true democracy. An emphasis on democratic ideals raises awareness of democratic tenets among the populace and also facilitates the holding of free, fair, and peaceful elections. This article examines the concept of democratic governance, the link between democratic governance and information, public libraries, and what public librarians should do to ensure the promotion of democracy.     

1976-2010年我国情报概念研究计量分析

对1976-2010年我国情报概念研究文献进行了统计。从文献的年代分布、期刊分布、核心著者方面进行了定量分析,调查出情报概念研究的核心期刊及学术带头人,归纳出各个学派的主流观点。提出情报概念是一个发展中的概念。