Overqualified: Changing the Culture of Hiring Practices in a Public Library Special Collections Department

All too often, applicants for low level paraprofessional positions in libraries are passed over or rejected, not because they are not qualified, but because they have professional experience or advanced degrees. The rationale behind these decisions is that the overqualified staff member in a low level position will continue to look for a better position more aligned with their skills, experience, and education; and when they find another job they will leave and their positions will have to be filled again. This essay argues that this reasoning is flawed and, regardless of the perceived inconvenience, library managers and administrators should want the best and the brightest working in all levels of their library.     

试析入世过渡期结束后国有专业外贸公司的发展问题

我国入世过渡期结束、外贸经营权放开以后，以前为国有专业外贸公司提供货源的厂家获得外贸出口权，国有专业外贸公司面临失去货源和客户的风险。为此，90年代后半期以后不少专业外贸公司纷纷向实业化转型。该文根据有关经济学理论对此问题进行了探讨，并对今后国有专业外贸公司的发展问题提出了自己的建议。     

四言诗的发展历程和衰落原因

本文通过对四言诗发展脉络的梳理，探讨了四言诗由盛到衰的三方面原因：相对于五、七言诗，它的音节节奏和拍节节奏单一，典重板滞而变化不足；创作过程中，“伤渊雅之致”，失去了四言诗的本色；古代诗体演变和进化的规律的结果。     

Using LSA and text segmentation to improve automatic Chinese dialogue text summarization

Automatic Chinese text summarization for dialogue style is a relatively new research area. In this paper, Latent Semantic Analysis （LSA） is first used to extract semantic knowledge from a given document, all question paragraphs are identified, an automatic text segmentation approach analogous to Text＇filing is exploited to improve the precision of correlating question paragraphs and answer paragraphs, and finally some ＂important＂ sentences are extracted from the generic content and the question-answer pairs to generate a complete summary. Experimental results showed that our approach is highly efficient and improves significantly the coherence of the summary while not compromising informativeness.     

关于比较教育的工作纲要和初步意见

朱利安在正文部分主要阐述了建立和研究比较教育的必要性和关于比较教育研究的一些设想.基本设想包括:建立特别教育委员会,承担各国教育资料的收集工作;用问卷方式收集教育资料;建立师范学校网,用最新方法培训教师;发行各种语言的教育定期刊物等.     

Comics and the Modern Library Catalog: New Rules for Breaking the Rules

Scholarly and curricular uses of comics extend to many disciplines in higher education, resulting in increased demand for institutional access to such materials. Despite nearly twenty years of justification in the literature for inclusion of such materials in libraries, there are not widely adopted conventions or models for engaging in the business of a comics collection. At San Diego State University, this presented an opportunity to pioneer new modes of access, from cataloging and organization to storage and retrieval. This article explores the process of making a collection of floppy comics accessible alongside a theoretical discussion of cataloging shortcomings and opportunities.     

论陈樵及其诗歌

陈樵是元末浙东理学家,他终身不仕,隐居著述,以振兴程朱理学为己任,惜其学术著作皆遗,惟存诗歌《鹿皮子集》四卷。他的诗以咏物、咏怀诗为主,描述了其隐居生活环境,表达了他淡泊独善的追求;他的诗中唱和赠答诗占了很大的比重,这些诗涉及现实内容较多,体现了传统儒家思想对他的影响;另外他还有一些理趣诗、咏史诗等。他的诗歌艺术受时代影响,总体上学唐复古,但不同的体裁表现不同:七言近体学陆龟蒙,七言古体学温庭筠,乐府诗歌和当时以杨维桢为代表的“铁崖派”相呼应,力追李贺。     

唐传奇"史才"考论

唐传奇作者之"史才"不等同于历史学意义上的史学才能,却又与史学联系密切。从唐代史官制度与文学之关系的角度来考察,小说家"史才"当从"假小说以寄笔端"中求取,其实质包孕史学传承、历史意识生成、历史笔法借鉴等涵义。     

电视公益广告的价值取向与编辑风格

电视公益广告是一种特殊的电视传播形式，它发挥着重要的社会传播与教育功能，展现出独特的价值取向，而电视公益广告因编辑风格的不同在电视传播中呈现出不同的形态和效果。     

The different faces of controlling teaching: implications of a distinction between externally and internally controlling teaching for students’ motivation in physical education

Background: In Self-Determination Theory (SDT), a well-validated macro-theory on human motivation, a distinction is made between internally controlling teaching practices (e.g. guilt-induction and shaming) and externally controlling practices (e.g. threats and punishments, commands). While both practices are said to undermine students’ motivation, they would do so through somewhat differential motivational processes. Unfortunately, the relevance of the conceptual distinction between internally and externally controlling strategies has not been examined systematically. In the context of sport and physical education (PE), most studies on controlling teaching have either measured controlling teaching in an undifferentiated way or have focused on one particular feature of controlling teaching.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to provide a more fine-grained picture on the differential de-motivational effects of internally and externally controlling teaching strategies in the domain of PE.

Participants: A total of 925 students with an average age of 15.80 years (±1.99) coming out of 92 classes taught by 22 different PE teachers participated in the present study.

Data analysis: Data on perceived controlling teaching style and students’ motivation were analyzed within a multilevel framework from both a variable-centered (regression analyses) and person-centered approach (cluster analyses).

Results: We found evidence for a distinction between perceived internally and externally controlling teaching. Both teaching styles were strongly related to each other (r?=?.54). At the level of zero-order correlations, both internally and externally controlling teaching related negatively to students’ intrinsic motivation and identified regulation and related positively to introjected regulation, external regulation, and amotivation. However, when both teaching styles were included simultaneously as predictors of motivation in the regression analyses, only internally controlling teaching predicted poor quality and low quantity of motivation. A cluster analysis revealed different profiles of perceived controlling teaching style, with two profiles being characterized by either high or low levels of the two types of controlling teaching and other profiles displaying elevated or reduced levels of one of the types of controlling teaching. This person-centered analysis confirmed that particularly students who perceive their PE teacher as internally controlling are likely to report poor-quality motivation.

Conclusion: Controlling teaching (and internally controlling teaching in particular) is related to maladaptive motivational outcomes. As such, it can be advised to PE-practitioners to refrain from using controlling strategies when teaching students. More research is needed to identify the conditions under which teachers’ behavior is perceived as externally and/or internally controlling.