Harnessing Yik Yak for Good: A Study of Students’ Anonymous Library Feedback

This study explores academic libraries’ potential uses of the mobile application Yik Yak, with particular focus on patrons’ anonymous feedback about library services and spaces. Over a 232-day period, the authors observed the Yik Yak feed for their university and recorded all yaks related to the library. A content analysis of the 249 library-related yaks found six distinct purposes that these library-related yaks served, from the perspective of the patron, which are of interest to the library: asking questions about library services; reporting problems with library spaces; reprimanding violations of and encouraging adherence to library policies; sharing compliments about library services; demons-trating need for improved library services; and discussing and offering feedback about library programs. This study reveals several opportunities for academic libraries to engage with Yik Yak in order to serve their patrons better, including providing virtual reference services, monitoring problems within the building, developing proactive approaches to policy enforce-ment, gathering honest and continuous feedback about the library's strengths, and identifying opportunities to improve and expand services. Implications for practice are discussed.     

唐代告制的立法与法律实践

唐代是我国古代法制发展一个十分重要的朝代,其所创制的《唐律疏议》与《唐六典》是我国古代立法的杰出代表,其中对控告制度的规定科学严谨,充分体现了唐代高超的立法技术,十分有利于社会纠纷的解决、官员职责的行使与对官员违法犯罪行为的追究,然而,这两部法律所规定的告制在实践当中并没有得到严格的执行。本文从私告与官告两个方面说明唐代控告制度的基本规定,并与唐代告制的法律实践中的个别现象进行比较,对唐代告制的立法与法律实践中的一些问题进行深入剖析。     

Use of an Audience Response System in an Evidence-Based Mini-Curriculum

ABSTRACT

Since 2002, library faculty at the Indiana University School of Medicine have taught third-year medical students how to retrieve the best evidence from MEDLINE to address their clinical questions. In preparation for their Neurology, Medicine, and Psychiatry clerkships, students attended a review of evidence-based medicine principles and techniques for searching the literature. The session was team-taught by two faculty members, one from the Internal Medicine department and the other from the Library. The librarian reviewed important MEDLINE principles for constructing a good subject search and applying appropriate evidence-based filters. During the clerkships, students were asked to generate clinical questions arising from their patient encounters, searched MEDLINE for the best evidence, critiqued the results, and then applied them back to their patients' care. Library faculty provided individualized feedback on the student searches. A follow-up session two months later reinforced MEDLINE principles, used student searches as examples, and extended the discussion to other evidence-based, point-of-care resources. To add to the interactivity of the follow-up sessions, librarians used an audience response system to measure students' understanding of literature retrieval techniques and to gauge student preferences for information seeking on clinical topics. Overall, the sessions have been well-received by the students.     

Talk Back with Yik Yak? Exploring User Engagement via Anonymous Social Media in an Academic Library

This article presents results of a study of library-related posts on Yik Yak, a former social media app, and questions received via more traditional library-maintained virtual reference service platforms—namely, chat/instant messaging, SMS/text messaging, email, and LibAnswers' Query Spy—at College of Charleston's Addlestone Library. Based on an analysis of the results, suggestions are made for using social media tools similar to Yik Yak as a tool for interacting with patrons in academic library settings, specifically as a means to gather feedback about the library and to provide basic reference services.     

Online speech and democratic culture: a comparison of freedom of online speech between South Korea and the United States

Civil libertarian doctrine which was dominant during the twentieth century argued that the main goal of freedom of speech was to ensure that the public would be well-informed and actively engage in public deliberation. A literal extension of this claim to the Internet age often justifies the regulation of online speech under the assumption that harmful communication undermines the public interest. This study challenges civil libertarianism and proposes a new thesis of freedom of online speech, which posits that online speech should be understood in terms of a democratic culture where every individual participates freely and without restraints in the process of meaning making that constitute her/him as an autonomous individual. Based on such a theoretical concept, this study identifies three important aspects of online speech freedom – unfettered speech, anonymous speech, and participatory speech – and then compares the status of online speech between South Korea and the United States. This research suggests that a society should understand the unique nature of online speech and then arrange the legal system to fit into it.     

网络实名制浅析

通过调查研究,介绍了网络实名制的背景及发展状况,详细阐述了网络实名制的利弊,分析网络实名制给现在互联网所带来的影响,来研究网络实名制的可行性及现实性,并形成了发展网络实名制的实施方案.网络实名制实施的关键点就是要全面建立诚信体系和信息共享机制,提高用户对网络实名制的认知程度.     

研究生学位论文匿名评审过程中相关主体分析与对策

研究生学位论文匿名评审制度是提高研究生学位论文质量的重要举措,是保证研究生培养质量的重要途径之一。然而,深入调查目前实行的学位论文匿名评审制度,发现实施过程中还存在着一定程度的形式化倾向,这一倾向的出现固然有多方面的原因,但学位论文匿名评审过程中各相关主体的利益及其强化是根本原因。要想解决现行研究生匿名评审制度形式化倾向的问题,需要加强制度建设与制度创新,通过严格执行论文上交时间、改变导师观念、强化评审专家的积极动机、加强对行政人员的管理等,改变现行匿名评审制度中的利益格局,以进一步发挥研究生学位论文匿名评审制度的作用。     

消息源探源

本文认为,消息源的使用必须遵循信用评估、诚实、透明、多源核实和准确归属五原则;对匿名消息源的使用应加倍谨慎;对匿名消息源的保护,需要从职业道德和法律两方面做更多的实际工作。     

试论无名氏爱情小说的美学风格

本文通过对无名氏的三部爱情长篇小说《北极风情画》、《塔里的女人》、《海艳》的分析,论述了作家的创作思想与创作风格。     

对我国科研管理的经济学分析

我国科研管理中存在成果分散化、评奖主观化以及科研项目审批不公正等问题，科研管理者可以通过经济机制设计、减少交易费用以及实行匿名评审制度等，来解决这些问题，使我国的科研管理走上规范之路。