Do you wear spectacles and knit your own cardigans? Are books your most favourite thing in the entire world? Do you shush noisy patrons? If you’ve answered yes, meet your doppelganger, the Lego Librarian. If you take her home, don’t forget the lego bricks, after all she’ll need a designer library to shelter in. And…
What makes a library beautiful? Its architecture? Age? Frescoes? Marble floors and coffered ceilings? Manicured gardens? The place where you met your spouse? Jill Harness has rounded up scores of buildings for her personal beautiful libraries list. Sixteen of them are in the Asia-Pacific region. See them here: http://mentalfloss.com/article/51788/62-worlds-most-beautiful-libraries
(30 July 2013) In a first for a New Zealand university, Lincoln University has implemented an open access policy, allowing staff and postgraduate students to make their research outputs including research data, teaching materials and public records, openly and freely accessible on the web. The decision by Lincoln University to make content openly and freely…
(30 July 2013) When the world’s librarians gather in Singapore at IFLA’s World Library and Information Congress in August, Beyond Access will be there to share and learn the latest on how public libraries are contributing to development goals. How are libraries helping make governments more transparent? How are they bringing women into political discussions?…
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