According to the Notice of the General Office of the Ministry of Culture on Strengthening the Management of Electronic Reading Rooms in Public Libraries issued by the Ministry of Culture in August, 20001year, the electronic reading room of public libraries refers to a modern multifunctional reading room that integrates reading, consulting and training of electronic documents (such as disks, CDs, network information, etc.) based on computer technology and network communication technology. The biggest difference between the electronic reading room of children's library and other public libraries is the difference of service objects. The former is child-centered, so it has its outstanding characteristics in management. According to the management practice of electronic reading room in our unit, the author thinks that the management of electronic reading room in children's library can be strengthened from the following aspects.
1 installation and maintenance of computer software system in electronic reading room
The electronic reading room of children's library mainly serves children. They have certain limitations in the use of computers, which can easily lead to illegal operation prompts in the computer operating system, and even the system crashes, making the computer unusable. In addition, various viruses and hackers are rampant on the Internet, which seriously threatens the security of computer operating systems and makes computer management a time-consuming and laborious chore. After the construction of the network hardware system of the electronic reading room is completed, in order to facilitate future management and maintenance, the following methods can be adopted:
1. 1 Use the disk recovery program to ensure that the computer operating system can be restored to the best state in time.
At present, the most widely used and safest disk restore program belongs to Ghost program, which can completely copy the contents of the whole hard disk to another hard disk, or create a system partition into a mirror file. When the computer operating system fails, it takes only a few keystrokes and about ten minutes (depending on the image file size and computer performance) to restore the computer software system to the state when the image file was created, thus saving the trouble of reinstalling the operating system and application software. Before using this program to create image files, in addition to correctly installing and setting the operating system, necessary applications such as Office2000, Realplay player, translation software, compression software, antivirus software, etc. It should be installed, so that there is no need to install other programs when restoring the system disk with Ghost program in the future. After setting up the software system of a computer, you can use the hard disk copy function of Ghost program to quickly set up the software system for other computers with the same hardware configuration in the electronic reading room (after restarting, you need to set the computer name and IP address of each computer). If other computers with the same hardware configuration have an operating system installed and can connect to the local area network, there is no need to disassemble the chassis, just copy the created image file to the non-system disk of this computer and reinstall the operating system with Ghost program. This software can be used.
1.2 Use the system restore function of the operating system or install a program with restore function.
After the computer is frequently used for a period of time, various minor problems may occur. If you often use Ghost program to restore, it will cause great damage to the computer hard disk. To this end, we can use the system restore function of the operating system or install a program with restore function to maintain the computer. If the operating system of the computer in the electronic reading room is Windows Me or Windows Xp, you can use the system restore function of the operating system to solve the fault. It is worth noting that the restore point should be created manually when the computer is working normally. If the computer operating system is Windows 98 or Windows 95, you can install programs with restore function, such as virtual restore, FinalData and other restore programs.
1.3 Install the hard disk restore card
A more convenient, safe and quick way to restore the computer software system is to install a hard disk protection card (also called a hard disk restore card) and take more reliable hardware protection for the hard disk. Each 100 yuan hard disk protection card can write-protect different partitions of the computer hard disk or allow writing operations, and can restore the computer to the set state after restarting the computer or manually restoring it. If the administrator needs to update the software system and install new software, he can cancel the write protection of the hard disk after entering the correct password, and can re-protect it after setting. Some hard disk restore cards also have hard disk copies and network copies, which can easily install a large number of machines; Powerful data recovery ability can prevent virus infection and destroy valuable data in hard disk in time without installing other antivirus software.
Use a variety of technologies and the existing computer and network hardware configuration to provide more services for readers.
According to the spirit of "Notice of the General Office of the Ministry of Culture on Strengthening the Management of Electronic Reading Rooms in Public Libraries" issued by the Ministry of Culture, electronic reading rooms should provide Internet information consultation, sending and receiving e-mails, computer basic knowledge training and other services. , as well as multimedia CD-ROM browsing and audio-visual materials (CD, vcd) viewing and lending. The main readers of electronic reading room in children's library are children, and their computer knowledge is limited. When providing various services, the electronic reading room should follow the principle of being simple and easy to use without extra study. The following methods can be adopted:
2. 1 Apply virtual cd program to provide readers with convenient multimedia CD-ROM reading service.
Virtual cd program, you can first copy the contents of the multimedia CD to a mirror file on the computer hard disk, and then you can browse and run the contents and programs of the CD without putting the CD into the CD. After installing the virtual cd program (recommended online version) on the computer in the electronic reading room, choose the multimedia CD that children readers like, such as children's story books, popular science books, training books for various disciplines, computer knowledge training, etc. Make a CD image and copy it to the non-system area of one or more computers, and then share it with other computers. Compared with building a CD mirror server, realizing the function of CD mirror service through virtual cd program has the advantages of no need to increase equipment and investment, and it is also very convenient to use.
2.2 Install video playback software to provide audio-visual material appreciation.
E-reading room installs video playback software such as Super Jieba and Realplay on readers' computers, and copies VCD discs, Mp3 music and other contents to one or more computer hard disks, providing readers with video-on-demand services in a certain sense.
2.3 Make CD-ROM reading and video playing shortcuts for the convenience of readers.
After providing CD-ROM reading and video-on-demand services, in order to make it more convenient for readers to use, we should make shortcuts for CD-ROM reading and video playback and put them on the computer desktop, so that readers can read and enjoy them conveniently by double-clicking the shortcuts. Shortcuts can be placed in different folders according to classification, such as "Multimedia CD", "Happy Cinema" and "Wonderful Concert Hall". Readers can judge which folder to open to execute their favorite shortcuts according to the name of the folder. In order to maintain and add deleted content and services in the future, you can create folders for storing shortcuts on the hard disk of one computer and create shortcuts to these folders on the desktop of other computers. When you change content or add services in the future, you only need to modify the shortcuts in the folders on this computer.
Provide various forms of information technology education, so that the electronic reading room becomes an important window to spread information technology.
Providing computer knowledge and internet knowledge training for readers is also an important function of the electronic reading room of public libraries. The electronic reading room of children's library should carry out interest-oriented information technology education suitable for children. In terms of training methods, centralized training is adopted in winter and summer vacations and weekends during school. If conditions permit, you can also take on-call training at ordinary times to facilitate readers of different levels and ages to learn and master information technology. When organizing readers' activities or library knowledge training, the library can appropriately increase the contents of activities such as using computers to query bibliographic data and using the Internet to find and collect information according to the readers' situation.
Strengthen the daily management of the electronic reading room, improve the quality of the staff of the electronic reading room, and fully implement various management measures.
In daily management, the purpose is to serve and facilitate readers. During the opening hours, the staff stepped up patrols and walked beside the readers. On the one hand, they solve the problems encountered by readers in time, help readers use computers, and prevent readers from browsing unhealthy websites such as pornography. Put reading desks and chairs in the electronic reading room, and choose books and newspapers about computer knowledge to be put on the shelves, so as to facilitate readers to read books and periodicals with ordinary carriers while waiting for the computer or at ordinary times; Keep the electronic reading room clean and tidy. In addition to smoking and eating, it is also necessary to remove the garbage left by readers on the desk in time, keep the desktop clean and tidy, and reduce computer equipment failures caused by dust; Provide readers with paper and pens, which is convenient for readers to record. Strengthen the computer real-name registration system, check the readers' valid certificates, and try to use the reader's card system to reduce the registration trouble. Reasonable arrangement of human resources, to ensure that there are enough staff at the peak of readers such as weekends and holidays, and when there are fewer readers at ordinary times, the staff can be appropriately reduced.
In the final analysis, the implementation of various measures in the management of electronic reading room should be implemented in the quality of the staff of electronic reading room. Because the electronic reading room of children's library mainly serves children, they have some limitations in computer application and internet browsing, and many children's readers have never even touched computers, which puts forward higher requirements for the quality of the staff in the electronic reading room of children's library. In addition to the basic knowledge of library work, the staff of electronic reading room should also master certain computer network technology, and can guide children readers to use computers to browse, query and collect information. In daily work, we can judge and solve the problems in the use of computers and internal networks, solve simple hardware failures and software settings in time, repair hardware damage in time, and ensure that the electronic reading room can provide readers with as many normal equipment as possible during the peak period.
The electronic reading room, like other departments of the library, also shoulders the functions of collecting, providing information and disseminating knowledge. How to make the library, an important window, play a greater role and provide more abundant services for more readers needs our continuous exploration and improvement.