关于图书馆立法的思考

对图书馆的馆藏文献保护无法律法规依据,而图书馆的处罚条款因超越了其管理权限失去规范作用,是文献资源屡遭破坏的重要原因。图书馆事业的健康发展需要图书馆立法,我国法律体系建设为此奠定了坚实基础。图书馆立法条件已经成熟。图书馆立法必将为图书馆的资金来源、人才队伍的稳定、真正实现资源共享提供有利保障。     

李鸿章和张之洞与近代中国铁路建设论略

李鸿章是中国近代铁路业的开创者,张之洞是后起之秀。他们对中国铁路业的发展有荜路蓝缕之功。他们一生的洋务活动也伴随了近代铁路建设的全过程,为中国铁路事业作出了杰出贡献。他们在铁路建设中抵御外敌、发展民族经济、借洋款筑路的思想都是值得肯定的。但他们两人权力与地盘的争斗也延缓了铁路建设,洋务派的"内耗"同样阻碍了中国近代铁路事业的发展。     

对高校图书馆人力资源管理的思考

人力资源管理对于建设高水平图书馆具有重要的意义。针对当前图书馆人力资源管理存在高素质人才偏少、人才流失现象严重、适应现代化信息技术人才不足的现状及问题,提出新时期图书馆人力资源管理应树立科学的人力资源发展观,有效实施高校图书馆人力资源开发、管理战略,实现图书馆人才资源的管理创新,以促进高校图书馆的发展。     

网络环境下图书馆分编工作的要求

21世纪是网络的时代,图书馆在新的环境下有了新的职能,具有新的特征:信息量大,信息数字化、网络化、读者社会化。新环境对图书馆的分编工作提出了新的要求:分编工作扩大化,分编资源共享化,分编工作标准化,分编产品多样化。     

Construction Safety Risk Modeling and Simulation

By building on a genetic‐inspired attribute‐based conceptual framework for safety risk analysis, we propose a novel approach to define, model, and simulate univariate and bivariate construction safety risk at the situational level. Our fully data‐driven techniques provide construction practitioners and academicians with an easy and automated way of getting valuable empirical insights from attribute‐based data extracted from unstructured textual injury reports. By applying our methodology on a data set of 814 injury reports, we first show the frequency‐magnitude distribution of construction safety risk to be very similar to that of many natural phenomena such as precipitation or earthquakes. Motivated by this observation, and drawing on state‐of‐the‐art techniques in hydroclimatology and insurance, we then introduce univariate and bivariate nonparametric stochastic safety risk generators based on kernel density estimators and copulas. These generators enable the user to produce large numbers of synthetic safety risk values faithful to the original data, allowing safety‐related decision making under uncertainty to be grounded on extensive empirical evidence. One of the implications of our study is that like natural phenomena, construction safety may benefit from being studied quantitatively by leveraging empirical data rather than strictly being approached through a managerial perspective using subjective data, which is the current industry standard. Finally, a side but interesting finding is that in our data set, attributes related to high energy levels (e.g., machinery, hazardous substance) and to human error (e.g., improper security of tools) emerge as strong risk shapers.     

The Pacific Rim Library: A Surprising Pearl

The Pacific Rim Library (PRL) is an initiative of the Pacific Rim Digital Library Association (PRDLA). The project began in 2006 using the OAI-PMH paradigm and now holds over 300,000 records harvested from OAI data provider libraries around the Pacific. PRL's goal is to enable the sharing of digital collections amongst PRDLA members and the world, but greater unexpected benefits have been discovered. Through mirroring their metadata, PRL increases the chance that their data will be discovered in Google and other general search engines. With its many disparate collections, PRL is not a repository for traditional information discovery and retrieval. Initially users will bounce from a Google hit to the PRL metadata record in Hong Kong and then begin an intensive search on the original site which hosts the full digital object, in Vancouver, Honolulu, Wuhan, Singapore, or other PRDLA member location.     

浅析高职院校信息化建设问题及对策

十二五期间，国家要求大力加强信息化建设，作为后起之秀，高职院校借此发展东风，迅速兴起信息化建设热潮。但在信息化建设中认识不到位、重复建设、效率低下、资源浪费严重等问题层出不穷。本文结合高职院校信息化实际，从四个方面分析了目前高职院校信息化建设中存在的问题，并提出切实改进意见，以期促进高职院校信息化建设高效、扎实稳步推进。     

对学科馆员制度的认识

对学科馆员的定义和职责进行探讨，并提出构建学科馆员的对策。     

信息化时代高校图书馆服务方式的转变

信息化时代高校图书馆面临新的发展问题，为读者提供服务的形式发生变化，数字图书和网络化的应用改变了读者传统的学习习惯和收集整理信息的方法。同时，对图书馆工作人员的素质也提出了新的要求。     

Federated searching and usability testing: Building the perfect beast

With the ubiquity of federated search tools as viable solutions for students and researchers to search across external sources and internal repositories, users have become more sophisticated in their application of this technology. With the goal of optimizing the user experience of its newly introduced federated search offering, Endeavor Information Systems employed usability testing to gain insights into the critical requirements of librarians and information professionals for this solution. The results of this analysis, conducted in concert with market research and customer focus groups, and their relevance to Endeavor's federated search technology are the focus of this article.