大世界悖理与小世界现象——情报交流研究新进展

简述了大世界悖理与小世界现象的涵义及其实验研究和基本内容，指出了它们对情报学和网络交流的影响。     

联机规范控制系统的构建

馆际合作需求的增长对书目数据库的质量提出了更高要求，规范控制在书目数据库建设中的地位更加重要：本文讨论了规范控制的特征，联机规范控制体系的建设模式，并对建设联机规范控制系统提出了一些建议。     

图书情报学与传播学理论交叉研究综述

在调研近十几年传播学与图书情报学交叉研究论文的基础上，对传播学与图书情报学的学科比较研究、学科交叉研究等方面进行综述，并对发展趋势作出预测。     

网络时代科学信息传播与利用的模式浅析

简述和分析了网络时代科学信息传播的三种模式，并指出读者如何选择适合自己的模式来更好地获取科学信息。     

网络环境下数字图书馆的安全与防范措施

阐述了网络环境下影响数字图书馆安全的因素，提出了保护数字图书馆信息安全的防范措施。     

图书馆人员的计算机使用与职业健康问题探讨

针对图书馆人员在长时间使用计算机对健康危害的事实，参照香港《职业安全与健康(显示屏幕设备)规例》的一些做法，提出国内应重视图书馆人员的职业健康问题，并探讨合理的解决方式。     

LAS：图书馆现代化的必由之路和必然选择

文章全面系统地论述了我国图书馆LAS的发展历史、重要作用 ,以及数据处理特点和对硬、软件的要求等问题 ,重点论述了我国图书馆LAS的发展现状、模式选择 ,以及在构建图书馆LAS时应注重的关键问题。     

传播图景中的制度——由英尼斯的媒介理论谈起

本文分三部分 ,第一部分认为 ,在英尼斯的媒介理论中 ,对制度层面的论述是单向和不充分的 ,需要给予补充。第二部分对审视传播媒介与制度系统关系的各种理论视角做了归纳和解释。第三部分提出传播现象的制度分析框架 ,并以舆论的形成为例进行了分析。作者认为传播制度对于传播媒介和社会生活的正常运转具有重要意义 ,并通过制度分析提供了一种可以“去魅”的解释。     

Institutional policy process improvement: using structurating activity theory to inform practice

Organizational communication scholars are increasingly called upon to use theoretical knowledge to address problematic processes in public institutions. This article reports a process improvement project focused on a university conflict of interest (COI) policy as an example of how scholars can engage theory to improve ongoing policy processes. The project team included communication scholars and research administration staff who designed, implemented, and evaluated the mixed-methods project guided by structurating activity theory. Baseline survey results were used to design the process improvement project. Results of the follow-up survey indicate that researchers who participated in some aspect of the process improvement project (i.e. attending a policy café, using the redesigned website, or reading the new Quick Reference Guide) reported higher levels of policy communication and knowledge and more positive attitudes toward the COI policy than researchers who had not engaged with process improvement efforts. We offer theoretical and practical implications of results for organizational communication scholars and practitioners.     

The use of information and communication technologies in public libraries in South Africa as tools for bridging the digital divide: the case of the Kempton Park public library

ABSTRACT

The information and knowledge society has resulted in the exponential growth of information and communication technologies (ICTs), thus creating a gap between those who use ICTs and those who do not; hence the emergence of the term “digital divide” in the 1990s. One of the milestones of South Africa’s National Development Plan, a policy that charts the country’s development up until 2030, is to ensure that high-speed broadband internet is universally available at competitive prices. Notwithstanding the importance of ICTs in public libraries, the provision of such is still taking place on a limited scale in South Africa. This article investigates the use of ICTs in public libraries in South Africa as a tool in bridging the digital divide. It also examines the inequalities in access and use and suggests ways in which ICTs may be used to reduce the digital divide. A qualitative research methodology was adopted. In order for public libraries to function as an important tool in bridging the digital divide, there is a need to standardize the provision of public library services with regard to the digital divide.