Politico-economic interactions of German public performing arts institutions

Our paper analyzes the conduct of German public performing arts institutions in terms of non-market decision making or public choice. Apart from consumers of performing arts managers of performing arts institutions and public donors are main agents. A manager of a performing arts institution will not assume that the number of visitors is independent of his institution's programme or the ticket prices. By the same reasoning he will regard the amount of public subsidies not as exogenous, but dependent on his own policy. If future grants depend on present and past success (however defined), this will feed back into managerial decisions, along with expectations about demand. Data for the Federal Republic of Germany serve to empirically support the theoretical argument.     

中文网络信息资源保存问题探讨

随着计算机技术的飞速发展,近年来,中文网络信息资源迅速增长,它们是中华文化遗产的一部分,理应得到保存。本文通过对中文网络信息资源保存的意义及其保存现状的分析,揭示中文网络信息资源保存面临的几个主要问题,并提出作者的一点浅见与思考,包括:中文网络信息资源的采集策略、法律、资金、组织与管理机制、中文网络信息档案馆建设等问题。     

个性因素对用户信息源选择偏好的影响——基于对高校学生的实证研究

本文引入Howard博士的五大个性因素分析工具(简化的MBTI个性分析体系)描述用户个性特征,通过问卷调查对高校学生选择五类信息源的偏好进行实证研究。利用t检验,发现“目标性”、“敏感度”等个性因素对用户的信息源选择偏好有显著的影响。     

Methods for studying family visitors in art museums: A cross-disciplinary review of current research

This paper examines current trends in family studies research, details the methodological and topical perspectives that are emerging, and reflects on how these findings could be integrated to provide a more coherent approach to researching the leisure, learning and recreational aspects of family visitors to art museums. Research findings from disciplines such as sociology, ethnography, education, design and marketing are of interest to the field of visitor studies, and this paper contributes to the wider research agenda by providing an overview of family research methods from a range of other disciplines, as well as those used within visitor studies.Over the last decade, there has been a growth of research in family learning in science museums, leading to an emerging disciplinary matrix, whilst many aspects of family visits to art museums remain relatively unexplored. The paper discusses the problems of gathering meaningful data from adults and children in family groups, and concludes by suggesting that a challenge for art museums is to learn from what is happening in other areas of cultural research into families, and to develop a framework for research which builds on the methodological strengths and practical experience of robust studies.     

Chinese Studies Librarianship in North America

Although American libraries had begun collecting Chinese language materials in the 19th century, notably the United States Library of Congress in 1869, Yale in 1878, Harvard in 1879, and Berkeley in 1896, East Asian studies librarianship in North America, including China studies librarianship, was not fully developed until the 1960s. There was no formal organization that represented the interest of Chinese studies librarians because there were few of them and most of them were China scholars rather than trained librarians. More than 100 years later, the number of Chinese studies librarians in North America has increased considerably, primarily in response to the demand in the field of China studies and more recently to the needs of immigrant population and the general public who has an interest in China.This paper traces the history and growth of Chinese studies librarianship in North America, documents the development of the professional organization that represents Chinese studies librarians, and exami.     

公共图书馆服务文化旅游、建设旅游文化的实践

公共图书馆参与文化旅游和旅游文化建设将是一个颇具发展潜力和广阔前景的新领域。本文就其两者之间的关系及其公共图书馆参与旅游文化建设的思路进行研究、探讨，并结合全国各地公共图书馆为文化旅游服务的实践，重点提出了从十一个方面入手，依托旅游文化建设，挖掘内在潜力和优势，拓展图书馆服务的领域和层次，以旅游文化品牌树立公共图书馆新形象的建议。     

从五十年馆藏西文文献看国外藏学研究及藏学文献的发展

通过对馆藏西文藏学文献的分析,以点带面,概括出国外对藏学研究及国外出版的藏学文献的特色、意义和今后的发展方向,以及国内在收藏和利用国外有关文献时应注意的问题,从而为藏学研究工作者提供更好的文献资源服务。     

图书馆休闲文化"核"的建设及其人性关怀扩张

论述了图书馆的起源和发展与休闲的同源性,提出了图书馆休闲文化的"核"功能,使人们进一步认识到文化休闲在人们的生活和工作中的重要地位。图书馆的休闲功能是人类文明进步的重要标志,在未来社会中会愈来愈得到发展,它不仅是权益,而且需要"物化",读者应去追求自己的休闲权益,图书馆的管理者和工作人员应转变思想,以人为本,使人真正把图书馆作为学习生活之必须的文化交流舞台。     

湖北"共享工程"资源建设若干问题探析

对“共享工程”资源建设的思路、内容、建设目标及存在的问题与对策等若干问题进行了阐述与分析。     

电视的危机

电视危机的到来无法避免,主要基于两方面的原因:一是技术进步的必然结果,任何新兴的媒体必然以自身技术上的优势对旧有媒体形成冲击,互联网与电视的关系形象地说明了这点;一是当代电视所形成的文化品格,长期以来形成的电视的观念、电视和受众之间的关系也给电视自身的发展带来了危机.