满铁奉天图书馆

满铁奉天图书馆是南满洲铁道株式会社三座参考图书馆之一,该图书馆存在期间是1910年到1945年,它是个特定历史时期的产物。本文介绍了满铁奉天图书馆的概况、特色文献收藏、满铁奉天图书馆各种文献目录、由满铁奉天图书馆研究整理出版的各种出版物。同时介绍了抗战胜利后,满铁奉天图书馆文献被接收情况和后来的文献流向。     

网络环境下敦煌学外文文献资源建设与信息服务——以敦煌研究院信息资料中心为例

本文从图书馆外文文献服务的工作实践出发,阐述了敦煌研究院信息资料中心外文文献资料的收藏、利用及服务现状,分析了敦煌研究院信息资料中心在外文文献利用过程中开展的一些具有特色的信息服务模式,并对以后的外文文献咨询工作提出了改进措施和建议.     

现代图书馆地方文献的行业分布特点

地方文献信息资源分布很广,可以说涉及社会的各个行业。从地方文献的收藏与被收藏的角度,其分布也呈现两个方面,即地方文献产生部门和地方文献的收藏部门。出版社、杂志社、地方机关团体、科研所以及知名学者个人等,应算作地方文献信息产生部门,而图书馆、档案馆、博物馆及类似这些单位的某机关资料室、档案室、文物部门则为地方文献的收藏部门。     

地方文献收藏利用略论——以福建省高校图书馆为例

地方高校是为地方建设培养和输送人才的重要场所,也是为地方经济和社会发展提供智力支撑的重要力量。地方高校图书馆收集、整理、开发地方文献数量的多少和水平的高低,直接影响着地方高校的办学质量和服务社会的水平。福建各地方高校注意到文献资料收集对办学的影响,立足不同地域特色开展了文献资料的收集和研究,但还存在重专业文献轻地方文献、重历史文献轻现当代文献、重文字资料轻其他形式资料等问题。文章以福建省高校图书馆为例,简述收藏地方文献的重要性及其现状,阐述收藏地方文献所应遵循的基本原则,并提出当前进一步完善收藏地方文献工作的建议。     

云南省社科院图书馆特色文献资源建设研究

本文阐述了现阶段院内图书馆特色文献资源的优势及建设意义,分析了我院图书馆特色文献资源建设的现在及存在问题,并提出了相应的措施,对图书馆特色文献资源建设进行了理性的探讨。     

满铁大连图书馆

本文介绍了满铁大连图书馆的概况、文献收藏、文献分类、文献目录、文献流传和检索查询原满铁大连图书馆馆藏文献的方法与途径。     

高校图书馆特色文献资源库建设的思考

特色文献资源库是传统图书馆特色馆藏资源在数字时代的另一种表现形式,是衡量一所大学图书馆建设水平的重要因素。文章以西安邮电学院图书馆为例,阐述了自建数据库的现状,分析了图书馆依托馆藏特色资源,建设一个能集中反映学校办学特色及学科重点的特色文献资源库的必要性。最后,文章提出了建库的一些构想,期望为高校图书馆建设特色文献资源库提供参考。     

地方文献的采集需要关注另类文献

在图书馆地方文献征集工作中,采集既是一项基础性工作,也是一项传统性工作。本文就宁海收藏地方文献实践上,提出地方文献采集应关注非正式出版物及另类文献。     

浅谈宗谱的重要性及其征集

在图书馆界对地方文献概念探讨的基础上、就收藏地方宗谱的必要性及对地方各姓氏宗谱是否属于地方文献,谈谈自己的看法和认识。     

浅论基层图书馆地方文献的发掘与利用

本文通过分析地方文献的涵义及特征,探讨了地方文献有自已的显著特点。阐述了公共图书馆在地方文献资源的发掘与合理收藏,确立有特色的藏书体系;地方文献资源的开发与利用;运用两大文献共享平台实现数字文化信息资源的广泛传播与利用。     

Telling small stories: spaces of knowledge and the practice of geography

This article examines how the practice of learning geography, and the arenas in which knowledge-making takes place, can be usefully positioned within changing histories of the discipline. It contends that networks of action – understood through the intersection of social sites, subjects and sources – present a conceptual framework and narrative focus for the re-consideration of specific episodes from geography's past. The interventions made here are informed and illustrated by a 'small story' about the doing of geography. Based on different personal accounts, the story revives a series of events, encounters, dialogues and images dating back to the winter of 1951 at Glenmore Lodge, Scotland. This educational institution in the Cairngorm mountains offered children from urban areas the opportunity to learn field studies and the skills of 'outdoor citizenship'. Initially, the focus falls on Margaret Jack, a 14-year-old field-course participant. Her learning experiences are traced through personal letters, a diary and a field journal dating from that time, and her recent recollections of this event. Margaret's account dovetails with the story of her field studies instructor, Robin Murray. Robin's role is traced through his learning experiences as a geography undergraduate at Aberdeen University, and the recent recollections of Catriona Murray, his wife.     

Das Wissen der Schulden. Recht,Kulturtechnik und Alltagserfahrung im liberalen Kapitalismus

The Knowledge of Debt: Law, Media Technique, and Everyday Experience in Liberal Capitalism. Performing an object such as ‘the economy’ hinges on practices of formatting knowledge. The article proposes to look at such instituting moments in connection with social conflicts over the legitimate rules of exchange. This is exemplified by way of recounting the story of the codification of Swiss bankruptcy law in 1889. In order to homogenize the legal procedures of debt collection and bankruptcy, two subject categories were instituted: ‘merchants’ and ‘non-merchants’. These different categories were thought to account for the diverging temporalities and spaces of credit exchange in everyday economic life. The introduction of the commercial register, a media-technical apparatus, enabled a formal distinction between ‘merchants’ and ‘non-merchants’. However, this boundary was contested and proved to be porose.     

Two radiocarbon dates for freshwater shells from hierakonpolis: Archaeological and geological interpretations

Shells of two species of freshwater bivalve (Unio willcocksi Bullen Newton and Etheria elliptica Lamarck) from the predynastic Gerzean (Nagada II) Decorated Tomb at Hierakonpolis, Egypt have given dates of 5000±90 bp for the tomb, and 12,900±120 bp for an episode of Nile terrace accumulation (correlated here with the Sahaba-Darau aggradation event). The archaeological and geological significance of these results is discussed, together with an outline of problems associated with radiocarbon dating of shell. Comparisons are made with the few other radiocarbon dates available for the Predynastic period in Egypt and possible reasons for the presence of shells in the tomb are considered.     

Some chronological implications of a fossil molluscan assemblage from a neolithic site at Brook,Kent, England

The later post-glacial history of a valley in the chalk escarpment near Brook, Kent, is described, based on molluscan stratigraphy, archaeological evidence and radio-carbon dating. Differences in size and colour banding, respectively, of fossil and living representatives of two species of land snails, Pomatias elegans (Müller) and Cepaea nemoralis (L.), are correlated with climatic change during the post-glacial period. The problems of the use of fossil shells of these species as samples for radiocarbon dating are discussed.     

China's Dynamic Industrial Sector: The Internet Industry

A Singapore-based economic geographer explores and analyzes the spatially uneven evolution of the Internet industry in China, arguing that the country's immense regional disparity in the provision of Internet services is best explained by the interplay of place- and path-dependence. The author demonstrates how the highly uneven regional endowments in relevant industrial and entrepreneurial resources have led to the substantial and persistent regional imbalance within China's emerging "new economy." His initial survey of the country's 100 leading Internet content providers (firms), identified from a listing of ca. 11,700 commercial websites, is selectively augmented to reflect an increase of over 70 million Internet users in 2007, reaching a total of 253 million in June 2008, and thus overtaking the United States as the world's largest Internet market. Journal of Economic Literature, Classification Numbers: L10, L86, O30. 6 figures, 1 table, 53 references.     

The 1911 International Exposition in Rome: architecture, archaeology, and national identity

This paper discusses the 1911 International Exposition in Rome and illustrates how this patriotic celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Italian Sate utilized symbolic landscapes of architecture and archaeology to promote nationalist sentiments of italianità and romanità centered on the young capital of Rome. Through modern art exhibitions at the Valle Giulia, scientific conferences at the Castel Sant’Angelo, archaeological exhibits on the Roman Empire in the Baths of Diocletian, and regional Italian pavilions in the Piazza d’Armi, exposition officials offered a complex representation of Italian national identity that was modern yet ancient, cosmopolitan yet bucolic, European yet regional, and imperial yet developing.     

The Rise and Fall of Alexander the Great – The Need for Medical Analysis: Reply to Commentaries

Alexander the Great died in 323 B.C. from an unknown cause. By elucidating the nature of his death, we can better interpret various aspects of Alexandrian history. Alexander’s death may have ensued from the sequelae of a congenital scoliotic syndrome. It would therefore be of significance to note that one of the greatest leaders in history who conquered much of the then known world may have been suffering from a physical disability.     

Hospital Drama: Visual Theatres of the Medical Rendezvous from Asylum to Hospital with Reference to Specific Works by Anna Furse

Abstract

This paper is informed by Furse’s practice as a theatre maker in two fields of output that are connected by two factors: first, the presence of the woman patient — hysteric/subfertile respectively — within the clinical gaze; second, the significance of the womb to each pathology. In the treatment of each (explored in Furse’s theatre), lens based technologies play their part, whilst the cultural and medical can be seen to have overlapped to produce specific meaning with regard to Her body and its spectacularity. The article presents an overview of some of the key issues in precisely how the woman’s body becomes spectacular within this prosthetic medical gaze and how the medical — and theatrically designed spaces to represent these — become meaningful and potent proxemics that in turn inform medical/ theatrical spectatorship. Overarching nineteenth-century protocols at the Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris (where Furse’s Augustine (Big Hysteria) is set) to contemporary imaging technologies used in the treatment of subfertility with Assisted Reproduction Technologies (the topic of her Art of A.R.T. projects), it examines the way in which photography develops through cinema to X-Ray, ultrasound and then 3D/4D ultrasound to ‘capture’ the woman’s body in ways by which she becomes muted and exposed. These occular technologies that extend the gaze, first to an exterior subject and then, eventually, traversing the flesh without knife, lend specific performativity to the ‘patient’ women, within the context of hysterias and reproductive impairments respectively. Finally, issues of suspension of disbelief are addressed. The spectator’s faith in the screen-based image of Her spectacular body is interrupted in Furse’s work, which is also keenly interested in the effect of such imagery on the woman’s sense of Self. The historical and cultural leaps in this article argue that there is indeed a trajectory through the history of medical imaging since the first application of photography to anatomy to the more advanced scoping technologies of medical imaging today, and that in each era, the production of these images remain fraught with cultural implications.     

The Death of Alexander the Great – A Spinal Twist of Fate

Alexander the Great died in 323 B.C. from an unknown cause. Physical depictions of this historical figure reveal the likelihood of a cervical scoliotic deformity. This is substantiated with the medical history and is correlated with his untimely death. For the first time, it is concluded that Alexander’s death may have ensued from the sequelae of a congenital scoliotic syndrome.