Benefits to Collection Development Librarians from Collaborating with “Community-Embedded” Librarians-In-Training

The 21st century collection manager encounters serious challenges in collection development (e.g., budget shortages, lack of skilled personnel, lower agency prioritization, and reduced available staff time). This article explores a practical, low-cost solution to these challenges that prevent collection developers from regularly creating/managing adequately balanced collections. It discusses the role of 93 “community-embedded” librarians-in-training to develop contextually situated collections in a graduate course taught seven times in an information sciences program in a southern land grant university. Findings of collection management activity tasks completed during the course provide evidence of accrued tangible outcomes/benefits to motivate collection development librarians and their information agencies collaborate with librarians-in-training in future initiatives.     

Search boundaries: human flesh search,privacy law,and internet regulation in China

This research examines privacy law and Human Flesh Search (HFS) on the Chinese Internet. HFS is spontaneous, widely participated search and publication of targeted individuals’ personal information on the Internet. This research sees HFS as an important form of non-institutional information gathering and publication, and argues that the regulation of HFS is not only about privacy but also line-drawing for information collection and dissemination in the digital setting. Therefore, legal instruments and court cases in relation to HFS and online privacy must be assessed as important components of the Chinese state’s Internet regulatory scheme. This research finds that the paired concepts of ‘flexibility and populism,’ key features of legal reform and development in contemporary China, are highly relevant to analyze the growth of digital privacy laws in China. The political-legal authorities’ experimentation and innovation in the development of the law shed important light on how China’s Internet governance adapts to changing circumstances and strives to keep pace with profound social transformations in new technological environments.     

Bringing the Law to the Library: The Importance of Librarian Mediation in Access to Justice Services

Library access to justice programs and services help people who need legal information and who cannot afford an attorney. Librarian mediation is a critical component in the provision of access to justice services. However, the value of library mediation, or assistance with using library resources, is often unrecognized, particularly where members of the public are trying to access electronic legal information sources, online legal forms, and other law technologies. This article will explore the role of librarians in providing access to justice services from the perspective of the work of Richard Susskind, which emphasizes technological approaches to providing legal services. While there is a place for technology in access to justice services, there is also a valuable role that librarians play in contributing to access to justice.     

Is There a Future for Journalism?

A functionalist perspective on the future of journalism would posit that because human society needs journalism, we will find ways to support this communications practice. Yet such a perspective, however consoling, assumes a teleology that is far from guaranteed. What will happen is far from easy to predict; nevertheless, this paper pinpoints several key issues that impact on the future of journalism. It also advances some general propositions and a broad periodisation around UNESCO’s historical role in relation to these issues. The analysis gives particular attention to political and economic matters, the safety of journalists and internet governance. Each of these dimensions entails existential threats to journalism, but some opportunities are also noted. Four paradoxes are also identified, with tensions that may lead to change in one direction or another.     

Digital Inclusion in Library Context: A Perspective from Users with Print Disability

Digital inclusion is a strategy pursued to foster social inclusion of those who have been sidelined from the mainstream of information society due to lack of access to digital technologies and the skills to use them. Libraries have been working to close the gap by providing access to computers, the Internet, digital content, and digital literacy programs. However, research reveals a new type of divide where digitally competent people could be digitally excluded. This shows the need for a better conceptualization of access and literacy. This paper commits to exploring the concept of access to digital content from the perspective of people with print disability. It involved in-depth interviews with ten participants with print disability where the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health was used as a framework for data analysis. The overall analysis shows that digital inclusion would be more meaningful if it involved providing content in alternative formats and empowering users to make informed choices. Issues such as flexibility and adaptability in content presentation and design of content discovery tools are among those discussed.     

中国剩余定理在曲面拼接中的应用

用计算机代数方法,研究了两个二次曲面的光滑拼接,给出了应用中国剩余定理得到的在两个截面平行的条件下的三次拼接曲面,并且由此得到的拼接曲面还满足超限插值问题.     

依法行政加强药品监督管理

贯彻《行政许可法》，依法加强药品监督管理，其根本目的是保证药品质量，保障人民用药安全有效。必须加强药监队伍建设，树立公正执法形象，构建健康有序的药品市场，实现药品监督执法的规范化、法治化。     

关于中国武术美学思想内涵与特征的研究

提到我国民族传统体育文化中的瑰宝,其中必不可少的就是中国武术。中国武术随着时代进程的发展,沉淀下来的产物就是武术文化。武术文化在长期的沉淀过程中,融合了中国传统美学的营养,逐渐衍生出独一无二的中国武术美学思想,时代不同,人类的美学概念也在不断进化,要紧跟时代步伐,用现代思维来理解中国武术的现代美学思想。该文对中国武术的美学特征和武术美学思想的具体体现等方面进行了探究。     

无词典中英文混合术语抽取及算法研究

中英文混合术语可作为未登录词处理、加权处理和歧义消解等的辅助信息,并有助于提高中文信息处理的质量。依据长度递减与串频统计思想,本文提出了一种中英文混合术语的抽取方法。该方法不需要词典,不需要事先进行语料库的学习,不需要建立字索引,而是依靠统计信息,抽取出支持度大于等于阈值的中英文混合术语。该算法能够有效地抽取出文本中新涌现的通用词、专业术语及专有名词。实验显示该方法不受语料限制,能够快速、准确地进行中英文混合术语的抽取。     

论中国个人名称标目的区分问题

中国人的姓氏具有姓氏数量相对于总人口的比例严重短缺、各汉字姓氏在人口中的实际分布严重失衡、取名用字高度集中等特点。在中文编目规范控制过程中对中国个人名称标目进行区分尤为重要。中国个人名称标目的区分问题包括对古代个人名称和现代个人名称标目形式的问题;标目附加成分选取标准的控制原则、附加成分类型的划分和属性的分析等。将文献计量学的概念引入规范控制研究领域,会进一步丰富编目规则修订工作的信息来源,有助于拓展规范控制的研究领域。参考文献12。