Book Clubs—Outreach Opportunities for Hospital Libraries

Book clubs and discussion groups provide opportunities for hospital librarians to reach out to staff from all areas of their facilities while introducing them to literature reflecting participants’ personal and professional interests. Librarians presenting these case studies have coordinated local book clubs where topics ranged from titles about the nature of healing, to leadership development, and patient-centered care. Some also included contemporary novels of interest to participants. No matter the setting or scope of material discussed, each group has provided unique networking opportunities for staff to meet others working in various departments of their facilities.     

Multiple Models for Library Outreach Initiatives

Abstract

Special programming and advanced technologies were used to attract diverse, underserved and expanded user populations to University Libraries resources and events. Arts and Humanities Team librarians collaborated with other University units and community organizations, adapted programming models from enterprise settings and non-academic libraries, and used multi-media technologies to deliver a variety of events over one calendar year. Library exhibits, book talks, teaching assistant workshops, and multi-media kiosks were planned, implemented and evaluated.     

Enhancing parent–child shared book reading interactions: Promoting references to the book's plot and socio-cognitive themes

The study examined the efficacy of an intervention designed to promote parents’ and preschoolers’ references to storybooks’ plot and socio-cognitive themes during shared reading within a sample of 58 families from low-SES background. All parents were given four books, one new book weekly, and were instructed to read each book four times per week to their children. Parents in the control group were given no further guidance, whereas parents in the intervention group were guided in reading the books interactively with their children using Bruner's (1986) structure of the complete storybook reading experience. These parents were taught a four-reading model that guided them to first focus on the book's plot aspects (vocabulary, sequence of events, story structure) and then move on to its socio-cognitive aspects (mental terms, mental causality, references to the child's life). After the intervention, parents and children in the intervention group referred more than their control counterparts to both the book's plot and its socio-cognitive themes. The advantages of the intervention were maintained beyond effects of parental education and of children's gender, vocabulary, and social cognition level. The study revealed the importance of direct guidance of parents and the potential of shared reading contexts for eliciting rich conversations between parents and children. Discussion emphasized the importance of encouraging parents to refer to both the book's plot and its socio-cognitive themes.     

Beyond locality: the creation of public practice‐based knowledge through practitioner research in professional learning communities and communities of practice. A review of three books on practitioner research and professional communities

In both the fields of educational practice and educational research the professional development of teachers was, is and is promising to remain an urgent and relevant topic. Practitioner research performed by teachers in professional learning communities and communities of practice is promising to serve their professional development. In addition, practitioner research and participation in these learning and working communities aim at explicating the locally existing tacit professional knowledge. Since practitioner research is also defined as a means to the aim of creating knowledge that is more relevant to the practice of education than the knowledge created by research institutes, we are concerned with the question of which mechanisms can be identified as enabling the production of public practice‐based knowledge. Therefore we review three current books on practitioner research and professional communities.     

《苏州城墙》：传承吴地文化的煌煌巨著

《苏州城墙》一书涉猎苏州城墙的历史、文化、考古、建筑、方志、档案、测绘等诸多研究领域,汇集了对苏州城墙的调查研究、科学勘测报告等科研成果及相关图片,是一部不可多得的煌煌巨著。该书的学术性、现实性及史料性特点,将为我国的历史文化名城研究、吴文化研究提供不可多得的史料基础。     

借天道说人事——论《史记》对《诗经》的接受

《诗经》作为中国文学史上一部里程碑式的著作,它对史传文学的影响是深刻的。而司马迁的《史记》也正是在《诗经》的滋养中,成就了“究天人之际,通古今之变,成一家之言”的治史思想。《史记》对于《诗经》内容的化用,对《诗经》“微言大义”的发展,以及阐述司马迁记史观念,都体现了“借天道说人事”这一非因果论的天命观及其存在的合理性。     

真人图书馆:公共图书馆读者服务的有益尝试

真人图书馆以其全新的服务理念和服务方式受到国内外图书馆界的广泛关注。图书馆借鉴真人图书馆的服务形式,不仅有助于开发读者知识资源,而且能增强自身服务功能。分析了我国真人图书馆发展现状和公共图书馆开展真人图书馆服务的可行性,提出了公共图书馆开展真人图书馆服务的策略。     

少儿图书馆开展图书漂流活动的思考

图书漂流犹如一个流动图书馆,让全民共享阅读乐趣。调查我国图书漂流活动开展的现状,探讨了少儿图书馆开展图书漂流活动的意义及举措。     

The impact of physical book displays on business e-book use

This study examined the effectiveness of a physical display for increasing use of business e-books. The authors created three topical displays and compared the average use of the display titles to the average use of titles in the general collection. The overall rate of use for display e-books (12.3%) was lower than the average rate of use for nondisplay e-books (14.4%), suggesting that displays are not effective tools for increasing business e-book use. However, one display had a significantly higher average rate of e-book use (26.6%), suggesting that factors other than visibility may affect e-book use.     

论《三元延寿参赞书》包含的宗教思想

《三元延寿参赞书》的养生方法含有许多科学的精华。同时,书中所体现出来的人体观和养生观,也带有浓重的宗教神秘主义色彩。