论中国图书馆学历史传统的传承

中国图书馆学有优良的学术传统和丰富的历史资源，它们是我们建设中国特色图书馆学的重要精神财富。文章分析了如何发掘和利用中国古代的图书馆学术资源，提出要弘扬中国图书馆学经世济民的价值取向、调查研究的方法取向、应用研究为主的研究取向和系统、整体的思维取向等优良学术传统。并在此基础上融合西方图书馆学的成果。使当代中国的图书馆学研究既符合世界潮流，又具有中国的“魂”和“体”。     

灵活运用管理艺术努力提高工作效率

从培养凝聚力、放手用人、挤掉惰性、用目标造动力、运用帕累托定律、善待下属、一碗水端平等七个方面论述柔性管理艺术的灵活运用。     

口述历史在地方文献工作中的意义及实践

文章首先简要介绍现代口述历史的含义及其发展历程，阐述了口述历史对于地方文献工作的意义，并结合自己的工作实践探索开展口述历史工作的方法和需要注意的问题。     

读馆藏《退想斋日记》

文章通过对《退想斋日记》内容的介绍,旨在指出其在研究山西政治、民俗和晋商方面的史料价值,进一步指出日记对近代社会史研究的重要价值。     

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.     

The terrible gift: Museums and the possibility of hope without consolation

Public history is turned toward the future no less than the past. Little discussion exists as to how practices of public history might foster new ways to live with the presence of history. Museum exhibitions are one site where such discussions may take place. Particularly generative in this regard are exhibitions that present artifacts and documentation that reference state-sponsored violence. One such exhibition in development is discussed. While this exhibition presents evidence of past events, it also assembles traces of the past and bequeaths them as a testament, “a terrible gift” that places difficult demands on those to whom it has been given. In discussing the practices of inheritance initiated by such a gift implications are drawn for how museums might initiate a reconsideration of the force of history in social life.     

Museums and the shaping of contemporary artworks

In the museum context, curators and conservators often play a role in shaping the nature of contemporary artworks. Before, during and after the acquisition of an art object, curators and conservators engage in dialogue with the artist about how the object should be exhibited and conserved. As a part of this dialogue, the artist may express specifications for the display and conservation of the object, thereby fixing characteristics of the artwork that were previously left open. This process can make a significant difference to the visual appearance of the work, the nature of the audience's experience, and how the work should be interpreted. I present several case studies in which the nature of the artwork has been shaped by such dialogues, and discuss principles for resolving cases in which there is a conflict between instructions specified by the artist and those adopted by the museum.     

The Concept of Record in Interactive, Experiential and Dynamic Environments: the View of InterPARES*

This article presents the concept of electronic record as articulated by the first phase of the InterPARES (International research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems) Project (1999–2001) and discusses it in light of the findings of the second phase of the Project (2002–2006). While InterPARES 1 focused on records produced and/or maintained in databases and document management systems, InterPARES 2 examined records produced and/or maintained in interactive, experiential and dynamic environments. The authors describe the characteristics of these environments and of the entities found in them in the course of case studies conducted on systems used for carrying out artistic, scientific and e-government activities, and propose the new concept of record that InterPARES 2 is eleborating, which expands on that formulated by InterPARES 1.The authors would like to thank InterPARES 2 research assistant Randy Preston for his careful editing and constructive criticisms. Some of his suggestions have been incorporated in the text of this article.     

日本《图书馆员伦理纲领》的核心理念与实施现状

详述20世纪60年代-80年代初日本《图书馆员伦理纲领》的制订经过、历史背景;从专门职业制度与伦理纲领之间 的关系、获知自由与伦理纲领之间的关系、现代专门职业理论与伦理纲领之间的关系等3个方面,论述日本《图书馆员伦理纲 领》的核心理念、性质、局限和实施现状。