What Structures?

This article examines how the topic of an ethnically diverse workforce can become an organizational problem (or not) in private media companies. The study is based on interviews with Human Resources managers and persons responsible for diversity issues at these companies. This article favors a communicative approach by relating structures to agency through the concept of expectation. This is in contrast to the bulk of media research, which considers structures as something fixed and objective in determining organizational action. By exploring the expectations structures we can see which expectation patterns condition organizational communication. As a result, the main pattern of migrant background as adding value to the organization (or not) could be revealed as a guiding distinction in organizational communication about diverse workforces.     

Knowledge Management in healthcare libraries: the current picture

Knowledge management has seen something of a resurgence in attention amongst health librarians recently. Of course it has never ceased to exist, but now many library staff are becoming more involved in organisational knowledge management, and positioning themselves as key players in the sphere. No single model of knowledge management is proliferating, but approaches that best fit the organisation's size, structure and culture, and a blending of evidence based practice and knowledge sharing. Whatever it is called and whatever models are used, it's clear that for librarians and information professionals, the importance of putting knowledge and evidence into practice, sharing knowledge well and capturing it effectively, are still what we will continue to do.     

Mutatis Mutandis: Writing (After Derrida [After McLuhan {After Joyce}])

This essay plays Jacques Derrida and Marshall McLuhan off of one another and allows each to rub up against the other's voice. It will be argued that these works (which are rarely, if ever, read in conjunction) elicit underlying themes of each other, including similarities found in both their subjects and their reception. A connection via James Joyce will be discussed as well. The “writing” of non-books by Derrida and McLuhan, it will be argued, deconstructs communication form in a manner similar to Joyce, highlighting and applying to Derrida and McLuhan what Samuel Beckett once said of Joyce: “His writing is not about something; it is that something itself.”     

A NOTE FROM THE GUEST EDITORS

Working in animal behavior was challenging. It was the first time I came to the conclusion that I had to do something with my life, that there was work involved, and that if I wanted to accomplish something, I'd better figure out what it was and do it.—Exploratorium Explainer, 1974.     

利用台湾“中国机读编目格式”数据的编目实践及注意事项

台湾版图书在CALIS数据库中无数据者居多,需进行原编,而目前我国大陆各个图书馆购入的台湾版图书日渐增多,这给编目人员增加了困难和压力。为解决这一问题,编目人员可将台湾版图书的CMARC数据改为CNMARC数据。台湾CMARC和CNMARC同中有异,编目人员在实践中应注意以下几个修改点:确定删减字段、增加字段、保留繁体字的字段,相同字段的指示符按CNMARC要求修改,以提高台湾版图书编目工作的质量和效率。     

重视科学新闻提升期刊影响

科学新闻源于期刊所发表的优秀论文.西方科学新闻传播有成熟的网络平台及从事科学新闻传播的媒体及记者.我国缺乏科学新闻传播理念,为此,作者建议从重视科学新闻和提升期刊影响的角度,树立科学新闻传播观念,组织发表有新闻价值的论文,培养科学新闻的撰稿人,构筑科学新闻搜集、发布平台,开设期刊(或主编)博客.     

Writing within an international context

For Health Information and Libraries Journal, 2015 has had a distinctly international feel to it, something we have consciously been fostering for the past eight years. This issue is no exception in mirroring the journal’s Regular Feature International Perspectives and Initiatives, edited by Jeannette Murphy, in shining a light on the best international practice the health information and libraries sector has to offer.     

The Human Side of Library Skills Instruction

The classroom provides a wonderful opportunity to lessen students' fear of the library and to teach them the beginning and advanced skills they need to analyze their information needs and to use libraries effectively. As important as skills are, however, there needs to be demonstrable human interaction in a classroom. By sharing something of ourselves, we help convince students that their own uniqueness is also to be shared and built upon.     

How we done it good: Research through design as a legitimate methodology for librarianship

“How we done it good” publications—a genre concerning project-based approaches that describe how (and sometimes why) something was done—are often rebuked in the library research community for lacking traditional scientific validity, reliability, and generalizability. While scientific methodologies may be a common approach to research and inquiry, they are not the only methodological paradigms. This research posits that the how we done it good paradigm in librarianship reflects a valid and legitimate approach to research. By drawing on the concept of research through design, this study shows how these how we done it good projects reflect design methodologies which draw rigor from process, invention, relevance, and extensibility rather than replicability, generalizability, and predictability. Although these projects implicitly reflect research through design, the methodology is not yet explicitly harnessed in librarianship. More support for these types of projects can be achieved by making the legitimate design framework more explicit and increasing support from publication venues.     

Better Than Magritte: How Drama on the Radio Became Radio Drama

Using British radio and stage drama as its example, this article explores how a new medium took over an old genre and, after attempting to reproduce it closely, gradually modified it into something more suited to its own character. Initial disagreements about the significance of radio's blindness were attributable to the unreliability of pure sound as an epistemological guide. Yet this unreliability is a source of radio's unique dramatic strengths: It is a "theater of the invisible," severing drama's recent connection with spectacle and renewing its pristine association with speech. Radio drama has, in its turn, influenced the conventional theater.     

互联网视听节目内容管理与自律准则

随着互联网视听服务获得蓬勃发展,影响力日益扩大,各种不良内容也借互联网的开放平台趁虚而入,因此,对互联网视听节目内容进行有效管理势在必行。结合互联网的特性及境外管理经验,发挥行业自律显得尤为重要。《中国互联网视听节目自律准则》应运而生。《中国互联网视听节目自律准则》依据我国法律及一般社会公共道德制定,回答了“该依据什么规范内容,管理内容传播”的问题,对该准则的认可和遵循将有助于网站有效降低内容传播过程中可能存在的法律风险,并有助于提升视听节目品味。     

有为无为之间

文章讨论了图书馆工作中有所作为和不为的关系,认为要有所为有所不为,要尊重图书馆的本质特征。     

The Public and Bibliographic Instruction:

Since Bibliographic Instruction seems to be offered to many people using libraries, one could expect that a more knowledgeable public with a positive view of the information environment is being developed among its recipients. Who is the public for Bibliographic Instruction and what are they learning? Who is not being served and what are the implications of that failure? Can we define something called "Library Appreciation," and should it be taught to all clients before other library curricula?     

The Johannesburg art gallery: Lutyens,Lane and Lady Phillips

Johannesburg is to have an art gallery that will lick creation; they are getting quite American in their ideas and have found a miniature Pierpont Morgan or Andrew Carnegie in Mrs Lionel Phillips. Well the Rand needs refinement and something to raise it above the sordid search for gold.¹     

Bob Jones's Fundamentalist University Museum and Gallery

You may enjoy and learn something from the depiction of a religious legend, but you find salvation only in Jesus Christ, Who was made to be sin for us that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.—text panel, Bob Jones University Museum and Gallery.     

The True Benefit of Faculty Status for Academic Reference Librarians

Faculty status means having the same privileges of rank, promotion, tenure, compensation, leaves, and research funds as other faculty. Arguments against faculty status include that focusing on status detracts from librarians' mission of providing access to information; that the rigorous requirements of faculty status are not something that librarians are prepared or qualified to pursue; and that good librarians would be just as good without faculty status. These arguments can also be used in favor of faculty status, especially as it relates to increasing the quantity and quality of library and information science literature and contributions by academic librarians.     

Competition and cooperation

Hans‐Georg Gadamer's theory of human solidarity in the word is often misunderstood in the secondary literature, because the preeminent role he gives to communication is misconstrued. What Gadamer attempts in placing dialogue at the center of a communal ontology is something very difficult and important. He weights communal identity neither towards subjective individualism nor any kind of relational system, but in the creative and uncompleted intermedium of conversation. The priority Gadamer gives to the event of dialogue as the engine of unexpressed human identity is the pivot of his entire hermeneutic enterprise. The ontological preeminence of the unfinished “conversation that we are”; has implications for the theory of communication yet to be seized upon and worked out.     

Parents' Communication Skills and Adolescents' Salivary α-Amylase and Cortisol Response Patterns

The primary goal of this study was to examine patterns or groupings of adolescents’ hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA) (measured through cortisol) and sympathetic nervous system (SNS) (measured through salivary alpha amylase or sAA) responses as a function of their parents’ communication skills. A related goal was to decipher whether adolescents who demonstrate different patterns of physiological reactivity vary in their personal and relational health. The sample consisted of 118 parent–adolescent dyads who were asked to talk about something stressful related to the parents’ relationship. The results revealed that adolescents’ perceptions of their parent's communication skills predicted the likelihood that the adolescents would overreact, show no reaction, or down regulate in response to such a discussion, but only for sAA. All of the communication skills in question—social support, communication competence, feeling caught between the parents’ conflict, and inappropriate disclosures—supported the hypothesis that adolescents with parents who they think are more communicatively skilled are better able to recover from a stressful interaction than adolescents whose parents are less skilled. Adolescents who were considered “overreactors” in sAA also had more negative health indices, somewhat lower psychological well-being, and poorer quality relationships with their parents.     

浅议西文文献编目中有关个人责任者标目

规范工作是图书馆编目工作中非常重要的一个环节.对西文文献著录中有关个人责任者标目进行了探讨,并针对当前工作中存在的具体问题提出了建议.     

Researchers' use and perceptions of discovery services

This article describes a study investigating how academic researchers in the UK use discovery services to find different kinds of information resources relevant to their research. The study shows that they use a very wide range of services, from Google to highly specialized databases, to find information relevant to different stages in their research. Researchers treat searching an integral part of the research process; their central concern is that they might miss something, and they tend to refine down from a large set of search results. Most are confident in their skills, though librarians see them as conservative in the tools they use and unsophisticated in their methods. Finally, we point to some gaps in provision as reported by researchers.