(Seattle–(Business Wire)- 25 September 2013) Amazon today introduced the third generation of Kindle Fire—the all-new Kindle Fire HDX. The new Kindle Fire HDX tablets combine groundbreaking hardware, the latest version of Fire OS, and exclusive new features and services like X-Ray for Music, Second Screen, Prime Instant Video downloads, and the revolutionary new Mayday button.…
(24 September 2013) Oxford University Press has announced that the popular Very Short Introductions series is now available in an easily discoverable, fully cross-searchable, and highly accessible online platform, available via institutional subscription. Very Short Introductions are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly, providing an intelligent and serious introduction to…
(26 September 2013) New titles have been added to University Press Scholarship Online (UPSO) with the September 2013 content update. This update has added over 500 titles to the platform across more than 20 subject areas including Classical Studies, Economics and Finance, History, and Religion. This new content has been brought to UPSO from 13…
(25 September 2013, United States Census Bureau) This compilation of data from 219 countries and areas on the prevalence of HIV infection and AIDS cases and deaths is updated to include new data for more than 100 countries. Major updates include new data for China, Ghana, Ethiopia, India and Cameroon. The database focuses on HIV/AIDS…
(25 September 2013) If you’re interested in or already working with MOOCs, a new report from the UK’s Department for Business Innovation & Skills demands your attention. The Maturing of the MOOC is getting plenty of attention by professional blogs since it was published a few days ago. It’s a literature review which captures the…
Want a library job in Hong Kong? The Hong Kong Library Association currently lists vacancies in Hang Seng Management College, Hong Kong Baptist University, SCAD Hong Kong, Tung Wah College, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Change your career here: https://hkla.org/jobs/
(25 September 2013) The Southeast Asia Library Group reports that the Malay Concordance Project aims to help scholars to share resources for the study of classical Malay literature. Its main feature is a growing corpus of classical Malay texts, now comprising 165 texts and 5.8 million words, including 140,000 verses. These texts can be searched…
(New York, 21 September 2013) Mobile broadband is the fastest growing technology in human history, according to the 2013 edition of the State of Broadband Report. Released in New York at the 8th meeting of the Broadband Commission for Digital Development, the report reveals that mobile broadband subscriptions, which allow users to access the web…
(24 September 2013) Every two years IFLA’s Library Buildings organises a conference in conjunction with the annual IFLA WLIC Congress. This year the Congress was held in Singapore and theme dealt with how to develop high-quality libraries at a reasonable cost– Making Ends Meet: High Quality Design on a Low Budget. Lecturers came from Australia,…
(23 September 2013) The Digital Preservation Coalition is offering two fully-funded scholarships to attend the First Steps Towards Digital Preservation at GESIS, Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne, 23rd – 25th October 2013. The workshop – which is taught in English – is intended as a primer in digital preservation. It introduces central concepts…
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