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.     

Could scientists use Altmetric.com scores to predict longer term citation counts?

Altmetrics from Altmetric.com are widely used by publishers and researchers to give earlier evidence of attention than citation counts. This article assesses whether Altmetric.com scores are reliable early indicators of likely future impact and whether they may also reflect non-scholarly impacts. A preliminary factor analysis suggests that the main altmetric indicator of scholarly impact is Mendeley reader counts, with weaker news, informational and social network discussion/promotion dimensions in some fields. Based on a regression analysis of Altmetric.com data from November 2015 and Scopus citation counts from October 2017 for articles in 30 narrow fields, only Mendeley reader counts are consistent predictors of future citation impact. Most other Altmetric.com scores can help predict future impact in some fields. Overall, the results confirm that early Altmetric.com scores can predict later citation counts, although less well than journal impact factors, and the optimal strategy is to consider both Altmetric.com scores and journal impact factors. Altmetric.com scores can also reflect dimensions of non-scholarly impact in some fields.     

Citizen-Centered Journalism and Contested Boundaries

This article explores the existence of a “citizen-centered journalism” that sees citizens as crucial participants in the construction of news and as co-creators of their own worlds. Through qualitative case studies of three news organizations, the article examines the motivation for using a citizen-centered approach, the news routines that are required to do so, the categories of content produced, and the perceived impact of this approach. The results suggest these news organizations are working in partnership with communities and striving to give a voice to historically marginalized communities. The journalists, however, see citizen participation as complementary to professional journalistic routines that favor verifiable information, rather than assigning inherent value to it for its own sake.     

试探"合作学习"在《体育与健康》教学中的运用

《体育与健康》课程标准的出台意味着该课程的全面转型,学习方式的转变是其核心问题之一。本文结合教学实际,揭示了在传统体育课教学中被忽视的合作学习的重要性,从不同角度分析了新课程实施合作学习的条件,并进一步提出了实施合作学习的要点。     

英语学习边缘化现象及对策

英语学习边缘化现象多年来一直困扰着我国英语教学,近年来,随着高校招生规模的不断扩大。这种现象愈来愈烈,严重制约着英语教学改革的步伐。对此,我们必须了解其特征,研究其形成过程,分析其产生根源;并采取切实有效对策防止其滋生、抑制其蔓延,以实现全体学生英语水平的整体提高。     

我校开展校内调查研究的现状分析

我校开展校内调查研究工作较早,近年来取得了一定的成绩成长了一批教育科学调查研究的人员。本文就我校几年来开展校内调查研究的情况进行概述分析。     

企业主流竞争情报方法比较研究

本文主要阐述了定标比超方法、价值链方法、专利分析方法、SWOT分析方法四种企业竞争情报方法,结合我国的实际应用情况对其进行对比研究,旨在为企业竞争情报工作方法的选择上提供指南。     

国外企业门户平台内容管理比较研究

选择国外企业门户平台领域5个主流企业门户：IBM websphere、Microsoft Share Point、Oracle、Bea WebLogic以及AquaLogic,对其内容管理功能进行详细的分析,比较其优势与不足,为企业门户的进一步发展提供借鉴。     

知识可视化与信息可视化比较研究

信息可视化和知识可视化是两个不同的领域,彼此独立地发展,但它们又有很大的相关性。为了寻找它们之间的一种协作机制,对它们进行有效整合,本文首先比较了信息和知识的概念,阐述信息可视化和知识可视化的基本思想,然后从10个方面对它们进行了比较,最后对它们协作的方式进行了讨论。     

论教师的专业境界

教师是学校持续发展的第一资源。研究教师专业素养的目的是确保教育质量。从教师个性特征、教师知识、教师职业道德、教师教育教学技能等方面展开了研究。但是,教师是否把专业活动理解成是实现人生价值的过程,深刻地影响着教师的教育活动质量。由此,提出重视教师境界有了现实意义。