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.     

How We Used to Build the Future: 30 Years of Collection Development Trends

This session highlighted trends in continuing resource collections and collection management throughout the 30-year period from 1985 through 2015. Electronic resources became available in the 1990s and grew in prevalence from the 2000s through the present, changing the make-up of library collections and also how libraries measure collections and collection usage. Two librarians and two vendors shared their perspectives on these changes in collection development, describing how library collections now contain a combination of older formats and older ways of collecting data, and new, electronic content and automated ways of collecting and disseminating data about collections.     

历代广东词人综录

通过勾稽史料,检阅多种总集、别集、选本、方志、馆藏目录及目录学著作,可以考得五代以迄民国时期广东词人至少三百八十四家。     

从学校文化管理层面上提升高职学院图书馆的馆藏功能

教育作为人类文化传播的载体,是通过学校这个阵地来实现其功能的。学校图书馆是学校文化管理的基地。学校图书馆的馆藏应“虚”“实”结合,“藏”一切信息载体,应发挥它的新的服务功能,使图书馆的文化育人职能得以充分地展现。要采取有效措施,满足文化育人的要求,用文化因素塑造学校精神。     

台湾文学研究前沿问题(笔谈)

本专辑集中讨论了台湾文学研究的一系列前沿问题:当前台湾文学的主流;“重写台湾文学史”;台湾文学的史料发掘的意义;祖国大陆台湾文学研究的现状与新空间的展开;“现代性”与台湾文学研究;分析台湾文论的后结构转型及其影响;提出从文本的语言形态进入日据时期台湾文学研究的理念。     

Maximum Product,Even Less Process: Increasing Efficiencies in Archival Processing Using ArchivesSpace

As the archival profession has adapted to new challenges and adopted modern practices like More Product, Less Process, the University of Minnesota has embraced these changes. Even so, implementing new practices can take time and effort. With the adoption of ArchivesSpace in 2016, the University found itself being fast-tracked to even more efficient methods for establishing physical and intellectual control over collections. This article will examine the case studies of two large collections that were in the midst of being processed when ArchivesSpace was implemented at the University of Minnesota. How did the switch to ArchivesSpace impact the processing of these collections, and how will these experiences impact the future of archival processing at the University?     

Floating collection in an academic library: An audacious experiment that succeeded

Can a floating collection thrive in a large multicampus academic research library? Floating collections have been successful in public libraries for some time, but it is uncommon for academic libraries and unheard of for a large academic library system. This article will discuss the investigation into the feasibility of a floating collection at Penn State University Libraries, its implementation, and continuation for a period covering 2009 through 2015. Attaining the floating collection, limited to monographs in the general stacks of campus libraries, proved to be easier to implement than imagined and resulted in unintended benefits as well as some surprises.     

Developmental discourses as a regime of truth in research with primary school students

While developmental discourses have been heavily critiqued in relation to education systems, less attention has been paid to how these impact the data collection process in classroom research. This article utilises Foucault’s concept of regime of truth to highlight the pervasiveness of developmental discourses when conducting research in primary schools. Such a theoretical framing makes explicit how developmental discourses work and are constructed as ‘truth’, which limit the possibilities for alternative perspectives. This article shows how this regime of truth works in practice by reflecting on qualitative research conducted with two age groups in two primary schools in Australia, focusing on the researcher’s navigations of these discourses. In particular, this article examines the impact of developmental discourses on conducting research with multiple age groups, initiating research, choosing methods for data collection, and negotiating power relations and ethical practices.     

仓库管理系统探析

仓库管理系统的最大特色在于提供完善的基本管理功能的同时,最大限度地提高了统计的功能,如针对材料的出入库、价格库存调整及销售统计。仓库计算机管理信息系统不是一个单一的计算机网络,也不仅仅是一个软件,而是用计算机技术改变材料销售的信息模式,是一个整体的集成化的信息系统。