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Study On Subject Librarian System And Knowledge Services In Academic Library

Posted on:2011-09-23Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:Q WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:1118360332956860Subject:Library science
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Academic Library is the school's documentation and information center, teaching and scientific research services for the academic institutions,as an important base for school informationization and social informationization. Academic library is an important part of the univercity. However, the emergence of the network environment weakened academic library, as well as the network popular and rapid growth of digital information, the invisible network challenges the visible status of the traditional library. The change of library users needs challenge traditional services, the threat of competition intensifies library's survival, only the introduction of new concepts and techniques to change the current status of university library services in order to save the tide.In the dissertation, subject librarian and knowledge management, knowledge services, information literacy and other related aspects of the current status of research and practice as the base.Found the current lack of research exists in the following aspects:the lack of depth of knowledge services research; on the subject librarian system established norms study involved less;lack of enforceable against the line of library knowledge service model.These findings be regarded as the solid theoretical foundation of dissertation.The author found that there are great contradictions between users needs and academic library service through the investigation in the academic library, indicated that the university library service to carry out some adjustments to resolve the contradiction between the two. Only then the academic library could to play its role in the development process of the university, so that it is not replaced by other units.In this dissertation, the development of the current trends in academic libraries has conflicting solution:develop the knowledge services lead by the subject librarian to meet the increasingly univercity users personalized, targeted service needs.In the dissertation the author analysis the current mode of the information services-SDI and Reference Service conducted in-depth, found even if that the traditional service mode of the SDI and Reference Service has micro potential, but they still have some value, Author based on the application of information technology in library development, introduced the new service concepts and service techniques, to adapt SDI and Reference Services to meet the needs of university library users and extend their vitality.The author archits SKC model for knowledge services based subject librarian. Subjcet librarian is Subject Knowledge Commons Officer (SKCO), means that the subject librarian is the knowledge commons'administrator. The dissertation discusses the SKCO in Subject Knowledge Commons for the Chief Knowledge Officer, his main task is to control space and subject knowledge of all service-related work, the first is to develop and establish a technology (or process) to create, protect, and using some known knowledge;the second is to design and create an environment or activity to find some unknown knowledge; the third is to use its own knowledge and skills to help user's research in the Subject Knowledge Commons;the fourth is to provide the train of information literacy to improve the user's information literacy. Therefore SKCO were engaged main four roles in the commons:First, he must be a strategist, who has the vision, so he can master knowledge service as a tool to develop the Subjcet Knowledge Common, and he must be able to transform the user's needs into of the action quickly and efficiently.Second, he must be a consultant, integrator, must be able to trigger the user's creativity, listen to the ideas and respond for user. Not only to meet a balance between stimulate innovation and the user needs, but also to integrate academic library resources to fully meet user needs as the ultimate goal.Third, he must be an Environmentalist and Technologist, he must adapt the Subjcet Knowledge Commons for the stimulation of innovation and creative exchange of environment or platform to encourage and stimulate the conduct of interdisciplinary subject research.Fourth, he is an educator, he must be able to discovered the problems of information literacy among the user quickly, to help improve the user information literacy, and to improve users'efficiency.So,the main function of SKCO in Subjcet Knowledge Commons is as same as plumbers, to push the variety of knowledge to the user through different channels.Academic library knowledge service performance management is the way to assure knowledge service.But knowledge service performance management based on the library knowledge service performance evaluation. In this dissertation, author research the methods of library service performance evaluation in the world, from the methods,author summary and analysis in-depth summary and analysis, from the service environment, librarians quality, service capabilities,service content, to complete the work plan, service effectiveness and user satisfaction, etc.to be find the best way to meet academic library knowledge service performance, and further find range for improve knowledge services,build the strategy of knowledge service to ensure the uniform of service quality in service process, so as to meet the needs of users better in the university.
Keywords/Search Tags:Subject Librarian, Knowledge Service, SDI, Reference Service, Subject Knowledge Commons, Knowledge Service Performance
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