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.     

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.     

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。     

论政府在农村实用人才教育培训中的职能定位

农村实用人才是用科学文化知识武装起来的新型农民,他们是农村先进生产力的重要承载者,是新农村建设的主力军。但目前农村实用人才现状不容乐观,根本原因在于政府对农村实用人才教育培训重视不够,对于自身的职能定位不明确,为此,政府要提高认识,高度重视农村实用人才队伍建设;加强宣传引导,提高农民参与教育培训的积极性;建立健全农村实用人才教育培训机制,加大教育培训力度;健全农村实用人才培训政策支撑体系,加大财政投入。     

生师比评价的一个数学模型及其在教学评估中的应用

本文在生师比评价实际问题的基础上,提出了一种基于模糊数学原则的数学模型,将该模型应用于一个实际的教学评估案例中,对评估结果进行分析并给出了建议。     

高校档案学课程思政教育实践策略研究

高校档案课程的德育价值是新时代档案学教育发展的重要一环,也是档案高教工作者落实"立德树人"根本任务的重要举措.档案学课程思政以"立德树人"为根本遵循,知识性与价值性相统一,隐性教育与显性教育协同作用.因此,需要组建高校档案课程思政的教学团队,充分发掘档案课程、档案实践以及档案资源的价值.     

论鲁洁先生教育人学思想的三维构成

教育人学思想是鲁洁先生教育思想的核心,也是中国教育理论的宝贵财富。人的超越性是教育人学思想的人性假设,它源于马克思的人之二重性假设,基于这一假设,教育要培养人之超越性,更要坚持自身的超越性。道德的追寻是教育人学思想的价值追求,因为人之超越的过程也是人之意义的实现过程,作为成人之道的道德为意义的实现指明了方向,相应地,这种指向“成人”的德育是充满魅力的,在人之卓越的实现中,德育也具有了一种享用功能。生活的回归是教育人学思想的实践要求,因为道德是在人的生活之中不断建构的。21世纪以来,鲁洁先生基于知识人和知识论德育的反思建构了生活论德育,并在德育新课程中进行了“回归儿童生活”的实践探索,彰显了教育人学思想的儿童立场。     

论行政忠诚的责任困境及其消解——以艾希曼之"平庸的恶"为例证

责任是行政忠诚实践中的核心问题,而这个问题实质上需要解决的是究竟谁应该是负责任的主体。关于这个问题,传统的理论中有两种倾向,一种是集体作为责任的主体,另一种则是由个人承担行动的责任,然而这两种理论都存在不同程度的缺陷。因而,在这两种理论指导下的行政忠诚必然走入了实践的困境。如何消除这种困境,我们需要对行政忠诚的责任问题有一个哲学的分析,并希望"为他责任"能够成为消解行政忠诚责任困境的途径之一。