Keep up to date with what’s happening in libraries in the region. If you have a conference to announce, please send its details to [email protected]. A searchable version of this list which includes conferences held in the past ten years is here. 2025 March 2025 ICLIS-2025 will be held 14-15 March 2025 in Jakarta, Indonesia.…
(22 March 2013) The institutions, each of which holds the largest collection in its respective country, have been working together for several years to exchange materials, knowledge and best practices. This new international partnership will build on existing cooperative relations to focus on areas such as conservation and preservation, digitization of rare materials, staff exchanges…
EU Commissioner Neelie Kroes opened the RDA launch event with a speech heralding “a new era of open science”. Commissioner Kroes welcomes the global approach embodied by the RDA and highlighted the need for interoperability, discoverability and an open approach. 150 individuals representing stakeholders from the sciences, infrastructures, libraries, technology providers and so on were…
National Central Library holds award ceremony for publishers depositing their publications (6 March 2013) For the first time since its establishment 80 years ago, the National Central Library held at its lecture hall “Cultural Heritage, Leading Academia: National Central Library Holds Thanksgiving Tea Party”. It was attended by approximately 160 publishers and 60 college persons.…
(12 March 2013) An exquisite illuminated Qur’an (Or.15227), dating from the 19th century and originating from the East Coast of the Malay peninsula, is the first Qur’an manuscript in the British Library to be digitised in its entirety. The manuscript was displayed in the British Library’s Sacred exhibition in 2007, and also featured in the…
(21 March 2013) The Southeast Asia Library Group, SEALG has announced the newly-digitised Serat Damar Wulan (MSS.Jav.89) one of the loveliest Indonesian manuscripts in the British Library, with a treasury of illustrations depicting Javanese society in the late 18th century. Pages from the Serat Damar Wulan were also reproduced in colour in the British Library…
Nominations are open for two LAS Awards. LAS Professional Service Award recognizes LAS members with at least 5 years experience who demonstrate outstanding leadership and commitment to the library profession. The award consists of a gift worth up to SGD1,000. LAS Outstanding Newcomer Award recognizes the accomplishments of outstanding newcomers to the library profession. The…
(22 March 2013) The Conference Programme Committee is calling for abstracts for LIANZA 2013 Conference: Wai-Ora, Wai-Māori, Waikato from 20-23 October in Hamilton. The conference theme reflects the association that the Waikato has with its most significant landmark, the river. The conference offer a range of topics for conference presentations including: Managing Library Services Knowledge…
(22 Mar 2013) ICSTI’s 2013 General Assembly will be hosted by National Research Canada in Ottawa on 14 October. The meeting will be followed on 15 October by two ICSTI member-only workshops, and will precede the 2nd Annual CASRAI Conference 16-18 October, the central theme for which is ‘Big Data : The Advance of Data-Driven…
(19 March 2013) Dr. Deanna Marcum, former associate librarian for Library Services at the Library of Congress (LC) and Dr. TongLi Chen, former director of the Asian Library at Illinois University visited the National Central Library, NCL, Taiwan, on the 15th of March to discuss digitization of publications, legal deposits, manuscripts collection as well as…
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