‘Teaching’ the path towards university: understanding student access through storied-futures and meritocratic grand narratives

The notion that the stories of our lives shape dispositions towards imagined futures is another lens through which university underrepresentation should be viewed. A storied lens attends to how futures, like university attendance, are storied during childhood to the extent that some youth imagine, and therefore plan, these futures as natural progression. Such was the case for study participants, indicating that childhood stories contain answers for mitigating social reproduction connected to parental education and cultural forces within the home. Examining social mobility through the underexplored storied-futures grand narrative presents unique solutions that lay hidden within the dominant meritocratic grand narrative.     

Beyond traditional collaborative search: Understanding the effect of awareness on multi-level collaborative information retrieval

Although there has been a great deal of research into Collaborative Information Retrieval (CIR) and Collaborative Information Seeking (CIS), the majority has assumed that team members have the same level of unrestricted access to underlying information. However, observations from different domains (e.g. healthcare, business, etc.) have suggested that collaboration sometimes involves people with differing levels of access to underlying information. This type of scenario has been referred to as Multi-Level Collaborative Information Retrieval (MLCIR). To the best of our knowledge, no studies have been conducted to investigate the effect of awareness, an existing CIR/CIS concept, on MLCIR. To address this gap in current knowledge, we conducted two separate user studies using a total of 5 different collaborative search interfaces and 3 information access scenarios. A number of Information Retrieval (IR), CIS and CIR evaluation metrics, as well as questionnaires were used to compare the interfaces. Design interviews were also conducted after evaluations to obtain qualitative feedback from participants. Results suggested that query properties such as time spent on query, query popularity and query effectiveness could allow users to obtain information about team's search performance and implicitly suggest better queries without disclosing sensitive data. Besides, having access to a history of intersecting viewed, relevant and bookmarked documents could provide similar positive effect as query properties. Also, it was found that being able to easily identify different team members and their actions is important for users in MLCIR. Based on our findings, we provide important design recommendations to help develop new CIR and MLCIR interfaces.     

Analyzing Food Science Research for Publishing Characteristics as a Model for Understanding the Needs of Researchers

Abstract

This paper provides a methodology to study the characteristics of the research output from a university department. The faculty publications and their cited references over a 10-year period were used as the basis for this study to identify their publishing patterns and the types of material they are publishing; a core set of journals and other resources they are publishing in and citing over this period; the characteristics of the journals in which they publish and cite; the degree of openness of their publications and their citation advantage; and the age of resources that are referenced.     

人的主体性及其道德思考

人的主体性一直是西方近现代哲学的中心问题 ,也是现代文明的核心内容。人类主体积极、能动的创造性活动推动了人类社会文明发展 ,也带来了一系列的社会问题。人的主体性活动由于本身所具有的局限性 ,必然要受到各种主客观条件的制约 ,其中 ,道德是主体实践活动健康发展的重要条件。道德一方面制约人的行为 ,另一方面激励人们去追求和发展 ,为主体性的发挥提供更广阔的空间     

OPC技术与过程监测系统开发

OPC是一种连接硬件装置或软件数据库等数据源与过程控制客户应用程序之间的标准化的接口协议,它可以显著地增强过程控制领域中的控制系统、现场设备、管理应用程序之间的互操作性,为实时综合监测系统的开发提供一条高效、可靠的新途径.本文首先论述了过程监测系统开发所面临的一般性问题,强调了实时数据通信问题的重要性,概要介绍了OPC模型的结构与特点,分析了他与传统的Client/Server模型之间的区别,最后介绍了OPC技术在船舶机舱集中监测报警系统开发中的应用.     

也谈当今的大学英语教学

当今大学英语的教学集中在四个方面:综合英语教学和听说教学;基础英语教学和文化教学;基础英语教学和专门用途英语教学;传统教学模式和以现代技术为基础的多媒体教学模式。各个高校应结合实际情况,确保不同层次的学生在英语应用能力方面得到充分的训练和提高,从而使大学英语教学改革落到实处。     

悖论——从大开架到新的闭架借阅

根据从大开架到新的闭架的非逻辑性,认为新闭架是行不通的。     

Electronic Records Research Issues

This paper is an overview of the issues and concerns in the last decade of electronic records research. It highlights some achievement and identifies areas in which there remains a need for work, but mostly it examines the changing perception of what constituted the important questions in a field which was evolving quickly.     

数字时代的信息与知识组织研究

扫描2007年度国外图书馆学研究进展,针对图书馆学理论、信息资源建设、信息与知识组织、用户研究、图书馆伦理与法律、图书馆管理思想与模式、开放获取、数字图书馆技术等8个方面的研究进行述评。     

图书馆参与政府信息资源再利用服务面临的问题及解决策略

作为社会交流系统的有机组成部分,图书馆与出版业、大众传媒等机构共同承担着各类信息资源传播的任务,是提供政府信息的重要职能部门,理应在政府信息资源再利用服务中发挥重要和关键作用。本文联系目前图书馆信息资源开发利用工作的实际,分析图书馆参与政府信息资源再利用服务面临的问题,最后提出解决政府信息资源再利用服务的办法,以推动我国的图书馆信息资源开发和利用工作。