(8 November 2013) The University of Chicago Library invites applicants for the position of Japanese Studies Librarian. The East Asian Collection supports teaching and research needs of the faculty and students at the University of Chicago. It holds a collection of more than 800,000 volumes in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages of various formats. It…
(7 November 2013) ARL invites libraries to join the global assessment community of LibQUAL+ by registering for the 2014 LibQUAL+ survey, which will feature several enhancements. When the LibQUAL+ survey year opens in January, the team will introduce a mobile version of the survey. LibQUAL+ survey respondents will be automatically directed to the appropriate version…
(8 November 2013) The Korea Herald carries an interview in English with Lim Won, Chief Executive of the National Library of Korea. Lim says that in the digital age, libraries are increasingly pressed to stretch beyond their traditional role to offer more user-friendly and versatile functions. “Basically, we want to run a service that actively…
The Pacific Rim Digital Library Alliance, PRDLA, has published (8 November) the presentations delivered at its annual meeting which met in Vancouver, Canada 2-4 October 2013. They are: Cross-cultural collaborations: building a digital oral history archive by Thuy Vo Dang & Lorelei Tanji, UC Irvine Libraries Adding value to old collections: transferring materials from the…
HathiTrust has a new state-of-the-art bibliographic management system for its 11-million volume digital repository. The new system, called Zephir, is developed and managed by the California Digital Library, and represents the first distributed development of a major repository component outside the University of Michigan. “The release of Zephir embodies the deep collaboration that is at…
(6 November 2013) Watch a presentation by R. David Lankes at the InfoHost 2013 User Group Meeting held on 1st November at Pan Pacific Hotel, Singapore. The theme for the meeting this year was “Libraries & Publishing – Evolve in New Directions”. R. David Lankes is an Associate Professor at Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies Watch…
(San Francisco, 5 November 2013 /PRNewswire) SearchYourCloud announces findings from a recent search survey conducted in both the UK and US. The survey showed that a third of respondents spend between five and twenty-five minutes searching every time they want to find a document, while only one in five searches is correct the first time.…
(London, Hong Kong, 5 November 2013) Thomson Reuters today announced it has expanded the scope of Practical Law, the leading provider of online know-how to lawyers worldwide, with the launch of a dedicated China service. Practical Law China is the first legal know-how service of its kind to provide transactional support to lawyers doing business in,…
The Library Journal’s annual roundup of the best databases was published 7 November 2013 in the LJ. The list reveals high-profile new databases and classic titles that command our attention. Elizabeth Michaelson does the honours here
(Philadelphia, 5 November 2013) The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters today announced a collaboration with Australian National Data Service (ANDS) to aid in the discovery of global data sets. The collaboration connects researchers to data repositories through the Data Citation IndexSM, a single-point solution providing access to quality research data sets from…
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