Reports of Conferences, Institutes, and Seminars

This quarter's column features reports from the Ohio Valley Group of Technical Services Librarians annual conference, held May 15–17, 2011, wherein linked data and the Semantic Web were discussed, in addition to satisfying niche needs in cataloging and acquisitions among other topics; the MOBIUS Conference, held June 7–9, 2011, which featured talks on the proper application of Web 2.0 technologies, staff cross-training, and the use of Adobe Captivate to create video tutorials; and, the Special Libraries Association annual conference, held June 12–15, 2011, featuring content aggregation and disaggregation, an overview of RDA, and a broad discussion of standards for technical services, to name a few.     

人类学者为何要研究灾难

人类学家对灾难研究的兴趣甚早,但长期以来局限于个案的探索,缺乏理论和方法论的系统思考。安东尼·奥利弗-史密斯和苏珊娜·M·霍夫曼从人类学对灾难的定义以及相关学术动态开始讨论,涉及了与生态、物质和社会-文化联结的人类学灾难研究的理论与方法,并辅以相关的文章,对人类学灾难研究的贡献和对地方场景中救援与重建的潜在价值进行了描述。