Serials standards work: the next frontier

Serials, one of the more complicated areas of library technical endeavors, has lacked the benefit of standards for a long time. Even now, with standards beginning to be available, the majority of institutions are not working within standard serials formats. A survey to determine the use of serials standards in libraries was conducted in 1988 by the American Library Association, Resources and Technical Services Division, Serials Section, Committee to Study Serials Standards. In the spring of 1988 a survey was sent to a group encompassing the Association of Research Libraries members, CONSER participants, United States Newspaper Program participants, Microform Project libraries, and some vendors and librarians who attended the Committee meetings on a regular basis. The survey questionnaire assessed the current level of serials standards awareness of librarians and vendors. Topics included the type of serials systems used, standards relevant to serials control and union listing and whether or not they are implemented, types and levels of training staff received in the application of standards, benefits of the standards, and areas where standards are most needed.     

Risk management information for HIV infection

This article discusses HIV infection in terms of the risk manager's information needs in the health care environment. The malpractice problem, increasing workman's compensation suits, the greater role of the ombudsman, implementation of the National Practitioner Data Bank, and the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations' (JCAHO) emphasis on clinical excellence are conditions which have given greater importance to the risk manager's position. Included in this article are hedges to retrieve various components of risk management and a select bibliography from AIDSLINE.     

Pennsylvania's transition to enterprise computing as a study in strategic alignment

We theorize about the strategic alignment of computing with organizational mission, using the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's efforts to pursue digital government initiatives as evidence. To do this we draw on a decade (1995–2004) of changes in Pennsylvania to characterize how a state government shifts from an organizational to an enterprise perspective regarding computing. We document and analyze the strategic and operational aspects of a series of information and communications technology (ICT) planning efforts to highlight the nature and roles of strategic alignment used to achieve this transition. Findings from this analysis mark the importance of combining several approaches to strategic planning regarding the adoption and application of ICT.     

竞争情报活动中的知识流与知识场分析

首先,本文探索竞争情报活动中的知识流、知识场的内涵、特点与两者间的相互作用,提出构成知识场的向量空间模型;其次,分析竞争情报活动中知识流和知识场研究的目的与意义,导出基于主体、面向过程、重视隐性知识挖掘的竞争情报研究的新思路;再次,研究竞争情报活动中知识场的特征及对知识流的影响,分析基于知识场的知识交流的机理,构建基于知识场的竞争情报流程与知识流整合的模型;最后,分析竞争情报活动中知识流有效控制和知识场效应的影响因素.     

Web挖掘中的客户隐私权保护浅议

随着Web挖掘应用的日益广泛,隐私权保护研究不断增添新问题和新内容.本文分析了Web挖掘中客户隐私权被侵害的主要方式,并从政府、客户以及网络行业三个角度提出了Web挖掘中客户隐私权保护的策略.     

汉语主题检索标识因素构成和词串序列的扩展

做主题标引工作时为了正确给出主题检索标识,要将分解和转换后的主题概念因素按照规定的因素和词串序列组配形成主题检索标识。为此,依目前已有的概念限定型复合主题的主题构成因素和词串序列,可扩展出多主题、单元主题、概念交叉型复合主题、概念联结型复合主题的构成因素和词串序列,这对于信息标引实际工作和信息管理类专业信息组织课程的教学工作有着重要的指导意义。