2009年4月29日 星期三

980430

上星期的課堂上了智性自由與檢查的這份講義
智性自由(intellectual freedom)係指無限制地找尋及接收各種觀點資訊的權利,即使該等觀點頗具爭議性或冒犯特定人士。公開平等的投票尚不足以支持一個民主的社會,還需搭配充分的討論,才能形成社會的共識。
尚未準備妥當的使用者,特別是未成年人,在莽撞的找尋及接收資訊時,很可能誤判資訊的價值,形成對自己及他人的危害。

2009年4月28日 星期二

980428

上星期上課上了LIBRARY OF CONGRESS COLLECTIONS POLICY STATEMENTS的Library and Information Science, and Bibliography (Classes Z and ZA)

Two categories of resources (“subject” and “format”) are included in this Collections Policy Statement.
The first are the subject categories Library and Information Science (classes Z through Z1000.5) and Information Resources (General) (class ZA).
The second category of resources covered by this Statement is Bibliography, which is subdivided into:General (Z1001-1140), including descriptive and analytical treatments dealing with books asphysical objects;National (Z1201-4980);Subject (Z5000-7999); andPersonal (Z8001-8999).

2009年4月8日 星期三

090409

Ensuring a bright future for research libraries
Key issues
1. Linking library content and collections toresearch strategies
2. Cataloguing, navigation, discovery, delivery andaccess: Researchers’ needs
3. Sharing skills and expertise
4. Communicating and evaluating research outputs
5. Curation, preservation and disposal
6. Sustainable resources

2009年4月6日 星期一

090407

0:Out-of-Scope: The Library does not collect in this area.
1:Minimal Level: A subject area in which few selections are made beyond very basic works. For foreign law collections, this includes statutes and codes.
2:Basic Information Level: A collection of up-to-date general materials that serve to introduce and define a subject and to indicate the varieties of information available elsewhere. It may include dictionaries, encyclopedias, selected editions of important works, historical surveys, bibliographies, handbooks, a few major periodicals, in the minimum number that will serve the purpose. A basic information collection is not sufficiently intensive to support any courses of independent study in the subject area involved. For law collections, this includes selected monographs and loose-leaf titles in American law and case reports and digests in foreign law.
3:Instructional Support Level: A collection that in a university is adequate to support undergraduate and most graduate instruction, or sustained independent study; that is, adequate to maintain knowledge of a subject required for limited or generalized purposes, of less than research intensity. It includes a wide range of basic monographs, complete collections of works of more important writers, selections from the works of secondary writers, a selection of representative journals, and reference tools and fundamental bibliographical apparatus pertaining to the subject. In American law collections, this includes comprehensive trade publications and loose-leaf materials, and for foreign law, periodicals and monographs.
4:Research Level: A collection that includes the major published source materials required for dissertations and independent research, including materials containing research reporting, new findings, scientific experimental results, and other information useful to researchers. It is intended to include all important reference works and a wide selection of specialized monographs, as well as a very extensive collection of journals and major indexing and abstracting services in the field. Older material is retained for historical research. Government documents are included in American and foreign law collections.
5:Comprehensive Level: A collection which, so far as is reasonably possible, includes all significant works of recorded knowledge (publications, manuscripts, and other forms), in all applicable languages, for a necessarily defined and limited field. This level of collecting intensity is one that maintains a " special collection." The aim, if not achievement, is exhaustiveness. Older material is retained for historical research. In law collections, this includes manuscripts, dissertations, and material on non-legal aspects.