公共图书馆视障群体特色服务探析

公共图书馆是我国政府履行公共服务职能的基础文化设施,是公益性文化知识服务的最佳平台。公共图书馆在平等的基础上向所有人提供服务,包括盲人读者群及智障等弱势群体。本文从关注视障群体的角度,探讨图书馆为视障群体服务的必要性,探讨公共图书馆在服务视障群体中的责任和义务,提出建设我国公共图书馆盲人服务体系的措施。     

《图书馆视障人士服务规范》解读

正阅读是人类获取知识、成才成长的重要途径,是提高自身素质的重要渠道。1995年,联合国教科文组织把每年的4月23日定为"世界读书日",提出"让世界上每一个角落的每一个人都能读到书"的目标,让读书成为每个人日常生活不可或缺的一部分。然而视障人士由于全部或者部分视觉感知力的缺失,获取信息和知识的途径和方式发生很大变化,因此面向视障人士的图书馆阅读服务也有很多特殊性。在公共图书馆建立视障阅览室或者专门建立盲文及有声读物图书馆,用视障     

《图书馆视障人士服务规范》分析解读

正图书馆是精神文明教育的基地,是信息集散枢纽,是终身教育的场所。图书馆丰富的馆藏,多样化的信息服务手段完全应该帮助视障人士学习文化知识和生活技能,丰富文化娱乐活动,提高自身的素质和境界。我们发展图书馆事业,也必须把为残疾读者服务,为视障读者服务工作做好。图书馆视障人士服务,也体现了一个国家的文明程度,体现了对视障残疾这一困难群体的人文关怀。使他们也能尽情享用人类文明成果,满足他们对文化知识的需求,为他们创造接受教育、丰富文化生活的条件,提高参与社会生活、全面融入社会的能力。     

公共图书馆如何为民营企业服务

针对公共图书馆如何为民营企业服务进行阐述,分析公共图书馆为民营企业服务的优势,并提出公共图书馆为民营企业服务的途径。     

英国公共图书馆老年人服务研究

阐述了英国公共图书馆对老年人做出的定义,再总结了英国公共图书馆老年人服务的研究。然后归纳了英国公共图书馆对老年人的服务现状,最后提出了英国公共图书馆老年人服务的典型案例。     

图书馆少儿阅读指导服务的措施

公共图书馆少儿阅读服务是根据小读者的阅读兴趣、爱好开展的一种引导服务工作。图书馆充分利用文化教育资源,为少儿阅读提供良好的服务,是公共图书馆读者服务的重要内容。本文基于公共图书馆阅读环境,儿童的阅读模式。通过秦皇岛图书馆引导少儿阅读服务中的实践活动,总结提出促进公共图书馆少儿阅读服务的措施。     

公共图书馆建设应体现人文关怀的思考

本文从"人文关怀"、人在公共图书馆发展中的主体地位和主体作用、人文关怀应贯穿于图书馆服务工作的始终、公共图书馆建筑设施也应体现人文关怀等四个方面进行了论述,旨在进一步提高公共图书馆的服务意识,真正体现公共图书馆"服务至上,读者第一"的服务宗旨。     

河北省公共图书馆服务评价研究

公共图书馆是我国文化服务体系的重要组成部分,是构建学习型社会的重要平台,在提高社会公众科学文化水平上有重要作用。近年来,河北省的公共图书馆服务水平逐步提高。本文介绍了河北省公共图书馆服务评价标准的内容,分析了服务评价标准体系存在的问题,提出了公共图书馆服务评价工作未来的发展方向。     

依托网络信息技术创新宁夏公共图书馆服务模式

公共图书馆是保障公民基本文化权益的重要途径之一,依托网络信息技术创新宁夏公共图书馆服务模式是时代发展的必然趋势。本文通过对上海、北京、广东、江浙等比较发达地区的公共图书馆事业模式了解,提出借鉴外省区先进的公共图书馆服务模式和科学管理方式,发展宁夏的公共图书馆事业的建议和看法。     

依托网络信息技术 创新宁夏公共图书馆服务模式

公共图书馆是保障公民基本文化权益的重要途径之一,依托网络信息技术创新宁夏公共图书馆服务模式是时代发展的必然趋势。本文通过对上海、北京、广东、江浙等比较发达地区的公共图书馆事业模式了解,提出借鉴外省区先进的公共图书馆服务模式和科学管理方式,发展宁夏的公共图书馆事业的建议和看法。     

Incumplimiento del salario mínimo en Europa central y oriental

En este estudio se analiza el incumplimiento del salario mínimo durante el periodo 2003–2012 en diez países de Europa central y oriental con salario mínimo obligatorio nacional. A partir de los datos de EU‐SILC y la metodología propuesta por Bhorat, Kanbur y Mayet (2013), se cuantifica la incidencia y magnitud del incumplimiento. Se realizan análisis de regresión sobre determinantes individuales, laborales y macroeconómicos. Aunque la incidencia permanece relativamente baja, los trabajadores a los que se dirigen las políticas de salario mínimo parecen los más expuestos a su incumplimiento. Con el tiempo, una mayor incidencia se asocia a una razón más alta entre salario mínimo y salario medio.     

Cultural Economy Planning in Creative Cities: Discourse and Practice

While a growing body of research analyses the functional mechanisms of the cultural or creative economy, there has been little attention devoted to understanding how local governments translate this work into policy. Moreover, research in this vein focuses predominately on Richard Florida's creative class thesis rather than considering the wider body of work that may influence policy. This article seeks to develop a deeper understanding of how municipalities conceptualize and plan for the cultural economy through the lens of two cities held up as model ‘creative cities’ — Austin, Texas and Toronto, Ontario. The work pays particular attention to how the cities adopt and adapt leading theories, strategies and discourses of the cultural economy. While policy documents indicate that the cities embrace the creative city model, in practice agencies tend to adapt conventional economic development strategies for cultural economy activity and appropriate the language of the creative city for multiple purposes.     

Input/output ranges and performance: an examination of US machine tool producers

Despite the establishment of high-tech multinational enterprises (MNEs) in Ireland since the late 1950s, the country did not succeed in closing the technological gap with most of its EU counterparts. The weak National System of Innovation (NSI), and in particular low business and government R&D levels, combined with a lack of research and technology linkages between MNEs and indigenous firms, explain these poor results. However, the Shannon region in the West of the country presents some specific institutional characteristics that could theoretically make the region a strong technological enclave. The various actors in the region - i.e. the administrative, financial, political and research institutions, as well as the business organizations - have indeed infused a new type of economic development. After a brief review of the available concepts and models articulated around these actors and their interrelationships, the paper analyses whether the Shannon region, taken as an illustrative example, mirrors a specific economic and technological localized setting. The study is based on a survey of indigenous and foreign firms.     

Sixty years of discrimination and diversity research in human resource management: A review with suggestions for future research directions

This article reviews discrimination and diversity research published in Human Resource Management (HRM) over the past 60 years. While discrimination and diversity are very different constructs, it is often informative to study them together, because when people recognize each other's diversity, this can result in bias, stereotyping, and discrimination. We conducted bibliographic searches for terms related to discrimination and diversity as well as a manual search through every title and abstract published in HRM over the last 60 years to assess article relevance. The search resulted in 135 research articles with 136 unique studies (i.e., samples) which are reviewed in this article. Sex and race are the demographics that have been examined the most in HRM, while religion has been examined the least. Moreover, the number of studies examining lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) employees in the workplace in HRM has grown quickly within the past 10 years, culminating in a recent meta‐analysis. Our review looks at some of the earliest research published, the most recent research published, and the overall trends we identified in the research over the years for both discrimination and diversity articles. We then make future research suggestions and recommendations to advance the study of discrimination and diversity in the coming years.     

The Early History of the Cumulants and the Gram-Charlier Series

The early history of the Gram-Charlier series is discussed from three points of view: (1) a generalization of Laplace's central limit theorem, (2) a least squares approximation to a continuous function by means of Chebyshev-Hermite polynomials, (3) a generalization of Gauss's normal distribution to a system of skew distributions. Thiele defined the cumulants in terms of the moments, first by a recursion formula and later by an expansion of the logarithm of the moment generating function. He devised a differential operator which adjusts any cumulant to a desired value. His little known 1899 paper in Danish on the properties of the cumulants is translated into English in the Appendix.     

Capturing the Implications of Services Trade Liberalization

This paper evaluates the impact of service sector trade liberalization on the world economy by a ten-region, eleven-sector CGE model with import embodied technology transfer from developed countries to developing countries. Simulation results show that service sector trade liberalization not only directly affects world service production and trade, but also has significant implications for other sectors in the economy. The major channel of the impact is through inter-industry input-output relations and TFP growth induced from services imported by developing countries from developed countries, which may be embodied with new information and advanced technology.     

City Children and Genderfied Neighbourhoods: The New Generation as Urban Regeneration Strategy

Former industrial cities in the West are employing gentrification as urban policy. In these policies, women and families currently play an important role as gentrification pioneers. In my analysis of Rotterdam in the Netherlands, I propose the term genderfication to understand the gender dimensions of this process. Genderfication refers to the production of space for different gender relations. I analyse Rotterdam's urban planning program for becoming a ‘child‐friendly city’, which entails replacing existing urban dwellings with new, larger and more expensive ‘family‐friendly homes’ as a strategy for urban re‐generation. Urban re‐generation supplements regeneration in the form of material and economic restructuring, and refers to the replacement of part of the current population by a new and better suited generation. The ‘child‐friendly city program’ is considered in tandem with punitive ‘youth policies’.     

Hierarchical Models in Environmental Science

Environmental systems are complicated. They include very intricate spatio-temporal processes, interacting on a wide variety of scales. There is increasingly vast amounts of data for such processes from geographical information systems, remote sensing platforms, monitoring networks, and computer models. In addition, often there is a great variety of scientific knowledge available for such systems, from partial differential equations based on first principles to panel surveys. It is argued that it is not generally adequate to consider such processes from a joint perspective. Instead, the processes often must be considered as a coherently linked system of conditional models. This paper provides a brief overview of hierarchical approaches applied to environmental processes. The key elements of such models can be considered in three general stages, the data stage, process stage, and parameter stage. In each stage, complicated dependence structure is mitigated by conditioning. For example, the data stage can incorporate measurement errors as well as multiple datasets with varying supports. The process and parameter stages can allow spatial and spatio-temporal processes as well as the direct inclusion of scientific knowledge. The paper concludes with a discussion of some outstanding problems in hierarchical modelling of environmental systems, including the need for new collaboration approaches.     

Multinomial distributions applied to random sampling of particulate materials

When sampling a batch consisting of particulate material, the distribution of a sample estimator can be characterized using knowledge about the sample drawing process. With Bernoulli sampling, the number of particles in the sample is binomially distributed. Because this is rarely realized in practice, we propose a sampling design in which the possible samples have a nearly equal mass. Expected values and variances of the sample estimator are calculated. It is shown that the sample estimator becomes identical to the Horvitz–Thompson estimator in the case of a large batch-to-sample mass ratio and a large sample mass. Simulations and experiments were performed to test the theory. Simulations confirm that the round-off error due to the discrete nature of particles is negligible for large sample sizes. Sampling experiments were carried out with a mixture of PolyPropylene (PP) and PolyTetraFluorEthylene (PTFE) spheres suspended in a viscous medium. The measured and theoretical variations are in good agreement.