Medical Librarianship in Nigeria--a review of the literature and comments on some problems and prospects.

The literature of medical librarianship of Nigeria is reviewed. The staff structure of Nigerian univeristy libraries and, in particular, of the medical libraries attached to them is restrictive, unprogressive, and unconducive to the development of medical librarianship in Nigeria. These medical libraries should cease to be administered and regarded as just unavoidable appendages of the main university libraries. They should be independent, full-fledged libraries of their own, recognixed as full academic departments of their respective colleges or faculties, with their heads being in no way inferior in status to other heads of academic departments.The granting of faculty status to Nigerian unviersity librarians should go the whole way and let the principle of multiple professorships be applied to the staff structure of unviersity libraries. Efforts are being made to effect bibliographic organization of Nigerian medical literature. A national library of medicine for Nigeria, however, humble its beginning, should be established.     

Museums at the crossroad: Contributing to dialogue, curiosity and wonder in natural history museums

The first natural history collections opened to the public were inspired by a sense of curiosity and wonder about the products of nature. They were ‘cabinets of curiosities’ that offered a first-hand interaction between owner and visitors. Nowadays, these two facets of the museum experience—dialogue and wonder—have been lost, in part, due to the information overload coming via the media and the impersonal nature of the museum visit. This paper offers some reflections on the evolution of the museum visit, suggests some ways to rediscover this ‘sense of wonder’ and provides ideas on how to promote two-way communication with museum visitors. Two examples of exhibitions are offered as illustrations of the points discussed.     

中国藏医药系列数据库建设与发展

介绍中国藏医药系列数据库建设的背景、意义、内容和特色，概述在建库过程中应用西北民族大学中国民族信息技术研究院开发的同元藏文字处理软件的体会，并对该系列数据库的未来发展提出构想。     

CALIS"重点学科网络资源导航库""十五"建设思考

总结了CALIS“重点学科网络资源导航库”“九五”建设的得失,提出在“十五”建设 时应着重考虑的问题,包括相关标准的制定、系统平台的开发以及项目组织管理等。     

近六年《江西图书馆学刊》载文、引文及作者分析

以《江西图书馆学刊》1998～2003年载、引、被引及作情况为研究对象，分析了载的数量、栏目和所占页数，引的数量、来源、语种和年代，载被引情况以及作的单位分布和作数量，从而反映出该刊近六年的栽情况及学术影响。     

基于本体的元数据模型及DAML表示

本体是概念化的一个显式的规格说明 ,能够将领域中的各种概念及相互关系显式地、形式化地表达出来。本文首先介绍了本体的基本概念 ,然后利用本体建立了元数据模型 ,最后采用DAML语言来表示这种元数据模型。     

数字图书馆互操作综述

互操作是实现数字图书馆 (DLs)的集成或联邦所面临的中心问题。文章对DLs互操作的研究现状及关键技术进行了综述与讨论 ,主要内容包括 :⑴DLs互操作协议、DLs中间件、DLs中的信息发现、语义互操作和元数据互操作 ;⑵DLs互操作的实现方法及评价标准。最后 ,指出了DLs互操作今后的研究方向。