The Library Yet to Come.ppt

Perhaps there was a time when passive behavior was appropriate, but if so, that time has passed. Perhaps there was a time when it was possible to imagine that because a given library had everything that is patrons might need, it was acceptable to let patrons forage independently, functioning in a largely self-service mode. 或許有一段時間，被動行為是適當的，但是這個時間已經過去了。或許有一段時間可以想像，因為圖書館是給予一切讀者可能需要的所有事物，可以讓讀者獨立搜尋，主要在自助方式上。 Some patrons even thought they wanted it that way. The idea was that since it was all there, if patrons merely searched about with sufficient patience and perseverance, sooner or later, they would find what they wanted. Even if this do-it-yourself, supermarket approach to information was defensible once, it is no longer. 有些讀者甚至認為他們願意那種方式。當時的方法是自從它出現在那裡，如果讀者充分的耐心和堅持的搜尋了，早晚，他們會找到他們所想要的。即使自己這樣做，就像超級市場達到的資料的方式為防禦一次，以後不再會有了。 This is so not just because reduced budgets mean reduced subscriptions and reduced numbers of single monographs. It is also so because the interdisciplinary expansion of research I not only affecting traditional fields, it is also creating new, nontraditional fields. 不是僅僅因為減少了預算，漸少訂閱和減少唯一的專題論文的數字。它也是因為各學科的擴大研究，不僅影響到傳統領域，也創新非傳統的領域。 We have, moreover, entered a period in which there is an increasingly large disparity between the electronic haves and have-nots. In this context, an electronic “have” is not just the patron with a modem. It is the patron with the skill and experience to hunt down and ferret out information that is tucked away in online indexes and catalogs or available in full-text databases. Only an active, indeed aggressive, stance among librarians is going to narrow this disparity. 當我們進入了一個電子時期，富國和窮國之間的差距越來越大。讀者用技巧和經驗去找出在網路上的資訊和目錄或全文資料庫。在圖書館的立場是要縮小這個差距。 The Inculcation of Low Expectations 張珈瑜 因為： 使用者會先假定有更好的書目資料。 所以： 因錯誤的領導而產生低期望。 解決： 為了克服上述壞的學習習慣，因此投入更多公共服務(public services)。 文章內提供的建議 第一步： 1.試圖開發新的資源並控制它，而非只學習如何使用。 2.如果使用者準備使用微電腦(microcomputer)和線上資源，我們就該建立專家系統(expert sys