Recent Developments in Union Listing and Interlibrary Loan

Union listing of serials on OCLC can bring about an increase in interlibrary loan and turn-around time when implemented at a university library. Formerly accessible as a subsystem of OCLC, union listing is now available on Connexion Browser as MARC 21 holdings data. Immediately following a batch load of OCLC union listing records at medium-sized Louisiana university library, it was found that lending requests sent to the library were up 10% for all materials and up 13% for serials. An increase in borrower requests from patrons at the library was also observed when interlibrary loan request buttons were inserted into citation entries found on EBSCO host university databases.     

Publishing in Library Journals

Summaries are given of papers of the Library and Information Literature Membership Initiative Group (LIL'MIG) at the 1982 American Library Association Conference in Philadelphia. Matters dealt with include: reasons for publishing, the mechanics of getting published, editing and refereeing and author-publisher protocol.     

The Small Press and the Library

"Small" presses are those which, because of the nature of their operations, put out short runs (250 to over one or two thousand copies) of the best efforts of regional poets and writers. There are a number of these adventitious industries alive and well in the Northwest. Regional and academic librarians should know of and support their efforts because they perform a vital function culturally speaking. They help to set the parameters of a genuine regional literature clearly and advantageously because they can and do foster a certain professional competition at their level.     

MARC Record Services: A Comparative Study of Library Practices and Perceptions

The number of journal titles available in digital format to libraries through aggregators and publisher packages has increased, but library resources to catalog these titles have not kept pace with the increases. More libraries are therefore turning to MARC record service vendors to provide batches of electronic serials bibliographic records, either full or brief. This study presents the results of a survey asking library personnel about their experiences with and attitudes toward MARC record services. Although many survey participants expressed satisfaction with the services, they also responded that they would like a greater number of more accurate full bibliographic records. Also, although a majority of libraries use a separate records approach with the services, a significant minority use a single record approach.     

ERM on a Shoestring—Workshop Summary Report

Commercial electronic resource management systems are complex and expensive. Alternative solutions to e-resource management were discussed by Dalene Hawthorne and Jennifer Watson in their presentation entitled “ERM on a Shoestring,” at the Seventh Annual E-resource Workshop held at Mississippi State University on July 20, 2007. University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) uses a combination of Blackboard, Filemaker and MySQL databases to keep track of their licenses and invoices for electronic resources. Emporia State University (ESU) uses their ILS to manage license agreements. The presentation covers the benefits of each option and practical information for setting up an electronic resource management system.     

SCCTP Electronic Serials Cataloging Workshop

This preconference was a presentation of the Electronic Serials Cataloging Workshop created by the Serials Cataloging Cooperative Training Program (SCCTP). The workshop assumed a general knowledge of print serials cataloging and focused on issues specific to cataloging electronic serials. Presenter Jeanne Baker followed the course content developed by SCCTP, while highlighting changes introduced by the new CONSER standard record where applicable.     

Dance Periodicals

The author describes the different categories of dance periodicals and the readership that each one attracts. Twelve of the more popular dance periodicals are examined and described.     

Introducing Serials Education

A librarian new to serials work has much to learn. In addition to learning on the job, other aids are available. Self-help advice is offered and some American Library Association programs are described, with an emphasis on the Serials Section of the Resources and Technical Services Division.     

Designing Effective Journal Use Studies

No abstract available for this article.     

《玉米》系列叙事艺术浅谈

毕飞宇《玉米》系列在叙事艺术上有着独到之处。其在叙事视角上独特的第三人称限制视角的运用,同时又暗含着“我”的在场使作者在叙述上获得极大的自由;在情节的设置上,独特的情节让人物的性格凸显;在语言运用上,民间土语、反讽、戏拟的运用让整个文本精致传神。这三个方面是《玉米》系列在叙事艺术运用上的三个突出点。