‘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.     

数字图书馆数据库开发和使用中的版权问题

数据库的开发和利用是数字图书馆建设与读者服务的重要内容和基础。本文在总结数据库版权保护现状的基础上 ,对数字图书馆数据库的开发、数据库的保护期以及合理使用等问题作了重点阐述     

利用三大检索查询收录/引用的方法与技巧

三大检索工具的各种版本在收录范围、检索性能上各不相同, 著者字段使用方法比较复杂。本文研究了各种版本的差异, 以及具体检索个人文章被收录、引用情况的方法与技巧, 最后介绍其它几种常用于科学评价的检索工具。     

加快数据库建设 分层开发图书文献

提出了几点有关建立图书文献数据库遵循的原则，阐述了建立和开发图书馆文献数据库的必要性，并就加何分层开发提出了几点对策。     

回溯建库效益分析

本文在回溯建库概述、回溯建库对象及用户信息需求分析的基础上，以等额投入的方式客观地分析了回溯建库的效益问题。     

XML文献数据库检索系统的建立与实现

本文主要论述如何建立和为什么要建立一个完全基于XML的文献数据库检索系统,并就XML数据库的一些相关问题作了简单讨论.     

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.     

高校图书馆特色数据库建设之我见

本文介绍了我国数据库建设发展的三个阶段，在此基础上指出高校图书馆建设特色数据库存在的优势、应注意的问题以及建设的方法与途径。