| Summary: | 碩士 === 輔仁大學 === 圖書資訊學系 === 92 === The university libraries have been trying their best to acquire periodicals and the other types of continuing resources, in order to satisfy their users’ demand for rapidly delivered up-to-date information, and thus promote the quality of their library and information services. This accounts for the elevation of the value and status of such publications in the library collections. The proportion of the acquisition budgets has thus been obviously changed to lean more toward periodicals and the like, than toward the books, as the trends used to be. There is no way for the decision makers to escape from such a drastically-renovated scene. Complications in dealing with the vendors, and the headaches caused by sky-rocketing prices, are actually caused by the emergence of the multiple types of continuing resources, as well as the merger, franchise, cooperation, and various strategies for the management of publishing and distributing of such materials. The gradually changed user demands and the in-progress transforming patterns of user behaviors, raised a very big issue for the serials collection development: the decision on getting, keeping, and discarding the virtual and/or physical entities, electronic editions and/or hard copies. Various public services such as information retrieval and utilization, and the other theories and principles for library management, are also under serious challenge, encountering loud calls for renovations and revolutions. In short, the perpetually problem-ridden periodical management has now been developed into a battlefield with multi-dimensional and multi-natured issues to fight against.
This research endeavored to set out on that battlefield or the jungle with twists and turns. Essentially, it takes the problem-oriented approach to analyze the problems contexture into four components: the persons who are to face the problems, context of the problems, perceptions of the persons who are to face the problems, and the persons who talk over the problems. Different problems contexture makes various models for problems or issues, namely, the tolerant model, the mechanical model, the conceptual model, and the processional model for problems. The arguments then were turned to the illustrative practical cases from domestic and overseas university libraries and the other related fields for the information professionals. A study was thus made on their decision makers’ solutions for the related problems, then came the observation and comprehension of the problems they solved, with the aim to find out where the room for further contemplations and endeavors is. When it came to the considerations and contemplations of the persons who talked over the problems, the contextual environment was set on the domain of Information Management, in order to define the concept of the management of continuing resources which was classified as: information processing, information management, and knowledge management. Information processing covered such operations as the technical services. For the sake of taking more appropriate approaches to practical executions, information management emphasized on such service-oriented issues as the process and procedure for the interactions with the users. Knowledge management focused on the organizational activities which are of significant help to the fulfillment of the goals and objectives of the organization, such as the management of explicit knowledge and tacit knowledge, and the assessment and evaluation of the dedication and the contribution of each and everybody in the team while performing the designated role in the academic communications.
This thesis views the problems within the setting of library practice in the management of continuing resources, and conclude the observations in four aspects: (1) The problems to which the person in charge of the continuing resources in the university libraries have now been facing. (2) The problem-oriented conceptual framework and its impacts on the universities and their libraries. (3) Organize and add value to information and the facilities, equipments, and whatever preparations for it. (4) Considerations for the planning and implementation of the management of continuing resources in today’s university libraries. It is so hoped that this research can more or less contribute to this very topic in terms of “organizing the problems with the solutions quoted or suggested”, “widening the perspectives of the librarians”, as well as “strengthening the progress in academic communications and enhancing the competency of the organization.”
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