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。     

中国图书馆职业资格认证制度的建立与实施

本文针对当前我国图书馆界的现状，从人力资源开发与管理的角度，论述了图书馆职业资格认证制度首先要“以人为本”，同时要进一步开展对馆员的继续教育工作，并呼吁应尽快建立一套法律体系，使图书馆界的职业资格证书制度早日走向法制化、规范化。     

早期记者的职业意识和精神危机

早期记者产生于外人所办报馆 ,孕育于半殖民地半封建社会。从产生之初就深受西方新闻观念影响。中国最早的现代意义上的记者正是在西方文化冲击下 ,初步形成了自己的职业意识和观念。同时 ,他们又受传统文化影响 ,难以摆脱传统观念影响 ,热衷科举 ,对西方文化表现出排斥心理。本文试图通过揭示早期记者的职业认同危机、科举情结、文化认同危机 ,考察分析早期记者的职业意识和精神状况 ,以及其对新闻工作的影响     

《中国图书馆员职业道德准则》(试行)应更严谨、精炼

分析《中国图书馆员职业道德准则》(试行)中存在的内容相互包容、责任与道德混淆、部分条目可有可无等欠缺，并提出具体修改意见。     

我国信息资源共享实践及理论研究进展

本文通过回顾信息资源共享的历史发展,研究信息资源共享的实践和理论进展,提出了信息资源共享的关键和目前存在的问题     

Information-seeking behavior of economics graduate students: If you buy it,will they come?

The information-seeking behavior of social science graduate students has been the subject of many studies, but none have concentrated only on the economics graduate student population and their unique needs. The purpose of this focus group study was to use group discussions to understand the actual online behavior of graduate economics students when conducting research. The results provide insight and information about the skills and characteristics of economics graduate students, their first steps in conducting research online, their use of publicly available and library resources, challenges to finding information, and resources used to overcome these challenges.     

Managing a Biomedical Library’s Instruction Program: Redefining Scope

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) library instruction program provides training services to staff, clinicians, and researchers across NIH and several Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) operating divisions. The audience, training needs, and training topics are diverse and constantly changing. The NIH library has developed several new services and class topics to meet the needs of its NIH and HHS communities. Context, strategies, and future directions for the NIH library instruction program are described.     

Clinical Medical Librarian Licensure: Pros versus Cons

In hospitals and clinics, anyone who “touches” a patient has a license authorizing them to do so—from the phlebotomist to the cardiologist, from the genetic counselor to the social worker, and so on, except for the clinical medical librarian. This column discusses the intent versus the realities of occupational licensure for clinical medical librarians and provides recommendations for next steps.     

Health science libraries in Sweden: new directions,expanding roles

Librarians in Sweden are facing huge challenges in meeting the demands of their organisations and users. This article looks at four key areas: coping with open science/open access initiatives; increasing demands from researchers for support doing systematic reviews; understanding user experiences in Swedish health science libraries; and the consequences of expanding roles for recruitment and continuing professional development. With regard to changing roles, there is an increasing shift from the generalist towards the expert role. The authors raise the issue as to how to prepare those new to the profession to the changing environment of health science libraries.     

The Librarian BFF: A Case Study of a Cohort-Based Personal Librarian Program

This case study presents the development and implementation of a personal librarian program for a cohort-based, executive-style higher education administration doctoral program. Librarians and the program director collaborated to create a student-centered program based on individual research needs. The personal librarian program was designed to build a close relationship between the librarian and individual students; to help identify their research knowledge gaps; and to identify resources to meet each individual students' research needs.