‘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.     

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.     

计算机编目环境下卡片分类目录组织的作用

传统的分类目录是按知识体系揭示馆藏、宣传图书、辅导阅读，供读检索的工具．但在计算机编目环境下．卡片分类目录的报道及检索功能已被计算机检索系统所代替。尽管如此．分类卡片目录组织仍不能取消．因为分类目录组织能发现在分类、编目等环节中出现的问题．起到了校对书目数据的作用，为提高书目数据库的准确性提供了有利的保障。     

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。     

对现代编目工作的思考

分析现代编目工作发展趋势以及影响现代编目工作开展的认识上和心理上的障碍,就现代编目工作对编目队伍素质的要求提出看法。     

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。     

计算机类开放存取期刊资源的调查分析

本文以计算机类开放存取期刊作为分析对象,研究其学科内容、语种分布、出版情况、利用方式、检索方法和质量控制等多方面的特点,最后得出相关结论。     

新信息环境下图书馆智能化WebPAC检索平台的构建

本文针对图书馆WebPAC查询用计算机管理中普遍出现的一些问题,结合自身工作实践,介绍了以"定时开关机设置 定点访问控制 智能还原卡保护"相组合,实现对查询机智能化管理的几种方法.