The effects of information literacy on trust in government websites: Evidence from an online experiment

Information and communication technologies in use in government systems can bring about expected benefits only when citizens are willing and able to use such systems. Previous studies from various disciplines provided a fundamental understanding of human behavior with technology adoption that focused mainly on the technical and supply sides of this adoption. We argue that it is necessary to move away from an assumption that users form a homogeneous group under the phenomenon of the digital divide. Having conducted an online experiment, this study empirically examined the effects of personal factors, particularly the perceived information literacy, and the perceived information overload, on the user’s perceptions on the usefulness and trust in a government website. We find that the higher an individual perceives one’s information literacy, the more he or she trusts the website, and this is mediated by one’s perceived information overload (negatively) and perceived usefulness (positively). This research provides a more balanced understanding of the behavior of e-government adoption, supplemented with the details of citizen engagement factors, and specifies meaningful practical implications for successful e-government policies.     

中国省级政府网站的共链分析

利用Bing搜索引擎对中国31个省级政府网站进行共链可视化分析及共链原因分析。可视化图谱显示出两大政府网站群,北京和上海政府网站作为强有力的政府信息控制源,在其中发挥桥梁纽带的作用。共链原因分析揭示出中国政府网站共链的主要因素是非营利性组织,而商业组织的因素显示微弱。政府网站的共链分析为政府网站的评价提供一个新的视角,为中国省级政府网站的整体建设提供有益的启示。     

我国公共图书馆领导的网络调查与分析

论文通过对公共图书馆网站的调查,描述了我国公共图书馆领导情况,并从组织结构、职称和学历、年龄和任职时间、图书馆领导的选拔等方面进行了分析,在一些方面还与美国进行了比较,最后提出了几点建议,以期为完善我国公共图书馆网站上对领导信息的公布提供借鉴。     

新世纪初高校扩招后体育教育的现状调查分析与对策研究

本文采用文献资料法、问卷调查法和数理统计法，对安徽省境内的21所高校“扩招”后公共体育教育开展的现状进行了研究分析，结果表明：由于“扩招”速度过快，造成体育师资与场馆设施严重不足，直接影响到高校体育教育事业的深入发展，建议各高校应加大体育场馆设施方面的投入，提高师资水平，认真组织、周密设计体育教学运行方案措施，以缓解“扩招”后的压力。     

Disciplinary representation on institutional websites: changing knowledge,changing power?

This paper analyses shifts in the representation of history and physics as named organisational units on Australian university websites over the last 15 years in the context of broader questions about the production of knowledge in contemporary times. It derives from a broader project concerned with disciplinarity, changing university contexts and emerging conceptions of teaching and research. The paper points to a significant reduction in the number of departments and departmental webpages dedicated solely to those disciplines and the greater obscurity of disciplinary knowledge on the websites as a result. It suggests these findings are one symbolic sign of some changes in progress in universities, including a reduced strength of disciplinary voice in broader university management, some shift away from disciplines as the key reference points for knowledge production and some de-centring of their traditional strength in the academic labour market. The study also points to the methodological challenges of working with online sources of evidence.     

科技文献用户共享满意度形成机理研究

本文以用户从科技文献网站获取共享资源的感受为立足点,以共享资源质量和共享系统质量为核心变 量,构建了科技文献网站用户共享满意度模型,应用VPLS以及SAS软件对所采集的数据进行整理进而对模型提出的假 设进行检验,分析影响用户满意形成的影响因素和影响程度,在此基础上为网站如何提高用户的共享满意度提供了决 策建议。     

仡佬族地区小城镇语言生活调查研究--以正安县人民政府网站新闻标题为例

仡佬族语言处于濒危状态。随着城镇化的发展,国家日益注重城镇化进程中民族语言的保护和语言文字的规范。调查分析仡佬族地区小城镇政府网站新闻标题的语言问题有非常重要的现实意义。文章针对2012年1月1日至2012年12月31日正安县政府网站1010条新闻标题存在的语言问题,从用词不当、句式杂糅等多个方面进行详细分析,从中了解仡佬族言语社区人群的语言认同和语言态度。     

MINERVA: Archiving Born-Digital Material at the Library of Congress

ABSTRACT

MINERVA (Mapping the Internet Electronic Resources Virtual Archive) is the Library of Congress's largest archive of born-digital materials. The article discusses crawling to find material, selection, copyright considerations, the importance of metadata, cataloging, and the user interface.     

Librarians Do It Differently: Comparative Usability Testing with Students and Library Staff

Usability testing on library search tools was conducted with ten students and eighteen library staff members at Syracuse University. The study addressed three research questions: (1) Do the ways in which librarians carry out search tasks on the library Web site vary from those of student users?; (2) Are those variations indicative of different mental models, i.e. different experience with and knowledge about the content and search tools on the Web site?; and (3) If there are differences, what are the implications of those different models for the usability of the site by students? Participants were tasked by using the library's Web site to locate both known items and items about a subject in the library's collection. The two groups differed in the success with which they were able to complete the tasks, as well as the time used. There were differences in the selection of search tools, the syntax used within the search box, the expectations of how library resources are organized, and the level of persistence as tasks were performed. Students’ behavior is characteristic of different mental models for how search tools work. The results are applicable to the design of the library's Web site and have implications for how library staff conduct reference and instruction services.     

Telling Their Story with Data: What Academic Research Libraries Share on Their Websites

Abstract

Communicating library data with external stakeholders is a growing area of importance in the profession, and library websites provide an easy way of disseminating this information. Determining the types of data that will be most impactful in telling a library’s story is vital to an effective online data display. This research project reviewed the websites of 143 academic research libraries to determine if the libraries were publicly sharing general library data via a dashboard or other data display. For those libraries sharing data, information was recorded on the types of data shared, the types of data visualizations utilized, the age of the data presented, and whether multi-year trends were represented. The results showed that just under half of the academic research libraries in the study population had general library data displays on their websites. Most focused on traditional types of library data, such as collection size, reference and help desk interactions, instruction sessions, and circulation numbers for physically-held materials. Data visualizations were used infrequently.