Urban commons are more‐than‐property

Urban commons are characterised in the literature as collectively shared property in the city shaped by a context of scarce resources, population density, and the interaction of strangers. In the broader commons literature, commons appears as a verb, a noun, and a process made by practices of commoning—albeit still with a focus on property. In this paper, I argue that an understanding of urban commons as more‐than‐property is needed to recognise how present but elusive urban commons are. I use examples from interviews and observations conducted at a Women's Library to discuss how the access, use, benefit, care, responsibility, and ownership of this urban commons bring it into being through particular practices of commoning. By questioning current ways of defining urban commons, urban scholars gain a grounded understanding of the role of property, and other practices, in maintaining an urban commons over time.     

Historical and Textual Notes on Magical Texts in the Papyrus Collection of the University of Oslo Library†

This article, which concerns the history and texts of some of the magical papyri in the collection of the University of Oslo Library, has two parts. The first part (Hickey and Maravela) sheds light on the acquisition of the celebrated Oslo magical roll, P.Oslo I 1, by drawing on Samson Eitrem's account of the purchase in the Norwegian daily Aftenposten and the correspondence of Francis W. Kelsey, who had sought to buy the papyrus for the University of Michigan. The second part (Zellmann-Rohrer) offers critical remarks on the formats and texts of the magical papyri P.Oslo I 1, 4–5 and II 15.     

《四库全书》本胡曾《咏史诗》的文献价值

《四库全书》所收南宋人胡元质重新编排注释的胡曾《咏史诗》,在今天看来至少具有三方面的文献价值,一可用以校勘文字,二可资以辑录佚文,三可据以推断某些古籍的亡佚时代。     

缪荃孙与江南图书馆

清末有识之士缪荃孙在江宁（今南京）建立藏书楼,编纂书目、订立规章,创建了著名的江南图书馆,成为近代图书馆中之出类拔萃者。     

图书馆读者投诉问题之分析

读者投诉是图书馆服务工作中的常见问题,如果处理不当,就会进一步激化矛盾,因此成为图书馆管理工作的重点之一。本文认为,关键是要正确认识读者投诉现象,认真分析读者投诉的原因,从读者的投诉中发现图书馆服务工作中存在的问题。同时,要进一步建立和完善读者投诉制度,采取切实有效的措施,不断提高图书馆的服务质量。     

安徽省图书馆所藏徽州祁门善和程氏宗族文书研究

祁门善和程氏是徽州程氏宗族的重要支派,遗存文书众多.笔者2008年参与整理了安徽省图书馆古籍部保存的一批祁门善和程氏宗族文书资料,此次整理文书近150件,分为土地文书、房契文书、赋役文书、商业文书、宗族关系实态文书、社会文书、会社文书七个方面.这批文书具有时间跨度大、内容丰富、种类齐全、关联度强、保存完整、民间性突出等特点,价值较大,值得进一步挖掘整理和深入研究.     

图书馆人力资源开发与管理刍议

人力资源是图书馆可持续发展的关键所在。本文分析了图书馆坚持以人为本管理的必要性以及现代图书馆人力资源管理的现状和特征,提出了推动人力资源开发与管理工作的相应对策。     

贵州省图书馆古籍馆藏形成初详

贵州省图书馆现藏古籍二十多万册,几乎占全省古籍半数。其形成有自民初以来近百年历史,其中二十世纪五十年代是其形成黄金时期。本文结合馆藏档案并参考多种出版物,分阶段回顾其形成大略并作初步评析。     

高校图书馆读者服务工作浅谈

高校图书馆读者服务工作是高校图书馆工作的重要组成部分。本文对高校图书馆读者服务工作的内容、高校图书馆读者服务工作现状以及如何做好高校图书馆读者服务工作提出了建议。     

The Politics of Sources Meets the Practices of the Librarian: An Interview with Esther Chen**

[I] want to single out one phenomenon that could be called the ‘politics of sources’. It points to the extent to which the histories that both scientists and historians can write are artifacts of the available sources. The Rockefeller Foundation not only opened its archives very early on for historical work but also invested a lot in making the archives readily available for historical exploration. During the 1980s, many young historians took advantage of this opportunity. Thus, in a relatively early phase of the professional historiography of molecular biology, one could have gained the impression that the development of the new biology as a whole was a bio-politically directed enterprise of the Rockefeller Foundation sustained by the vision that social processes could ultimately be controlled by biological processes.