A Research On Architecture Mode Of Electronic Reference Resources

We are in an information age when social science and technology is being developed at a high speed. The extensive application of information technology has influenced the society in every field and brought enormous changes to libraries which hold information knowledge at the same time. As basic and strategic work of libraries, reference services have also changed greatly in the new information environment.Reference service must rely on abundant and reliable reference resources. Under the environment of network, the traditional reference services have evolved to digital reference services. Traditional printed reference materials also change to electronic reference resources. The concept of electronic reference resource breaks the traditional concept of "in-house collection" and expands to the whole network.. How to select and organize valuable reference materials under the complicated network environment and fulfill the information demands of users, is the primary question that reference department pays close attention to.Based on the background above, "the architecture mode of electronic reference resources" is made the title of this article. It starts with the concept of electronic reference resources, discusses the types, selecting principles, organizing mode of electronic reference resources. Information sharing of reference materials is also discussed in this article.The whole article is divided into five chapters, totally more than 70,000 words. The main content of each chapter is summarized as follows:(1) Summary of electronic reference resources. Give a definition to electronic reference resources and summarize its characteristics. The influence to reference work is also discussed.(2) Research on various types of electronic reference resources. Divide electronic reference resources into various types such as database, electronic reference book, search engine, electronic journal from micro-angle and describe the types in detail.(3) Selection of electronic reference resources. Discuss selecting principle, criteria, developing policy, selecting methods of electronic reference resources from macro-angle.(4) navigation system's construction of electronic reference resources. This chapter analyses the organizing mode of navigation system, measures that improve navigation system quality are also discussed.(5) Sharing of electronic reference resources. This chapter starts with change of sharing mechanism under the network environment, discusses approaches of information sharing.