Meeting Information Needs through Global Partnerships: A Roadmap to Becoming a Global Health Sciences Library

Abstract

Supporting global health priorities through the development of robust health science librarianship partnerships is of significant importance. Increased demand for synthesizing evidence-based information, collating quality resources, and increasing research productivity to improve human health requires integration of library and information science skills and expertise. The Health Sciences Library (HSL) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), exists to be an indispensable partner in health information and knowledge, teaching and learning, and research. As global efforts at UNC expanded, the HSL sought to ensure that our global engagement strategy and integration were aligned with campus priorities and partner needs. The HSL created a global research partnership plan: identify resources that improve efficiency, increase access to information, build in-country capacity and expertise—all while strengthening collaborations across multiple countries. Creating a meaningful and sustainable engagement strategy was central to envisioning our path forward and can be used as a framework for consideration by librarians in similar settings.     

Reimagining Newsroom Collaboration: How Two European News Nonprofits Are Inviting Citizens In

ABSTRACT

News nonprofits in the U.S. have been proliferating over 15 years as a way of addressing troubles in the business model for news. For these newsrooms, collaboration, with each other and with mainstream news, has emerged as a key way to build readership and attain relevance in a crowded media space. Still, past research has told us that the strong connection to mainstream news has constrained these organizations’ critique of journalism. In Europe, nonprofit news remains nascent and represents a response to declining trust in and engagement with journalism, and rising populism across the continent. Against this very different context, this study examines two players at the forefront of the European news nonprofit movement. It demonstrates the path dependency inherent in the origins of these organizations: In Europe, they are a response to a different societal change, and thus developed rather differently than did their peers in the United States, with a focus on redefining the idea of collaboration and the role of their audiences by seeing citizens as collaborators, both in the creation and in the dissemination of news. By seeing citizens as collaborators, not just readers, they work to empower and build news audiences as well as participants.     

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.     

略论现代体育教学过程中学生创新能力的培养

体育与健康课程教学以“健康第一”为核心，以全面提高学生素质为目标，是培养学生创新能力的重要环节。创设体育课堂教学的民主协作氛围，保障学生心理的自由和安全，构建以人为本，以动机、兴趣、情感、意志为基本内容的激励体系，为培养和发展学生的创新能力提供良好的心理环境。     

网络环境下高校图书馆信息服务模式

简要阐述网络环境对高校图书馆信息服务的影响，指出图书馆的服务模式要适应网络环境就必须调整馆藏结构，建设网络化的信息资源；积极拓展图书馆传统服务，创新现代化情报咨询服务，还要充分发挥图书馆的教育职能。     

校园网管理信息系统中ASP技术应用

校园网络系统在学校的教学和管理工作中发挥着越来越重要的作用,本文从当前Internet/Intranet及MIS系统的发展出发,在比较当前流行的数据存取及信息处理技术基础上,阐述TASP的作用与优点及其在校园网信息处理中的应用。     

浅谈网络环境下的信息检索效率

网络环境下，信息检索效率主要是指检全率和检准率，它们之间存在互逆、互顺等关系。许多因素影响着检索效率，文章提出了提高检索效率的各种策略，并且展望了其发展趋势。     

高校田径运动会管理系统网络化设计

根据普通高校学生和教工田径运动会的特点，用Visual Basic和SOL Sever设计高校田径运动会网络管理系统。依据高校田径运动会管理的一般原则和程序，采用灵活的界面设计，系统具有可操作性强易于理解掌握的特点。     

网络信息资源建设的问题及管理探讨

网络信息资源是网络环境下图书馆信息资源的重要组成部分。本文探讨了信息资源建设的有关理论和图书馆信息资源建设中存在的问题，以及对网络信息资源管理模式、手段和要求方面进行讨论。     

防火墙软件实现原理--利用Winsock2 SPI截获网络封报

本文详细讨论了在Windows界面下通过Winsock2 SPI实现软件防火墙的技术原理和方法，并给出一段示意代码。