(3 December 2013) The Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford and the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (BAV) have digitized and made available online some of the world’s most unique and important Bibles and biblical texts from their collections, as the start of a major digitization initiative undertaken by the two institutions. The digitized texts can be…
(4 December 2013) The PublishingPerspectives website has a feature by Adam Critchley on the eBook culture in Taiwan. Despite the Taiwanese appetite for new technology and the country being one of the world’s largest hi-tech manufacturing centers, enthusiasm for the ebook is less than lukewarm. Read the article here: http://publishingperspectives.com/2013/12/in-taiwan-reading-is-cool-but-lukewarm-on-ebooks/
(4 December 2013) ALIA reports that libraries are taking up the fight to save the Alcohol and other Drugs Council of Australia (ADCA). ALIA Executive Director Sue McKerracher explained, ‘The ADCA has a library and information service that is used by hundreds of doctors, social workers, psychologists and other health professionals working with most vulnerable Australian…
(4 December 2013, Alexandria, VA) Hundreds of thousands of pages of underground and independent comics are now available from Alexander Street Press with the launch of the digital collection Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels: Volume II. The second volume expands on the coverage of the celebrated first edition, which won the 2011…
(2 December 2013) The Designing Libraries website reports on the Danish Agency for Culture’s model programme for public libraries; a toolkit for library design in the digital age that anyone can use. More here and link to the Danish website.
(2 December 2013) The University of British Columbia invites applicants for the position of Chinese Rare Books Cataloguer. Deadline is 3 January 2014. More here.
(21 November 2013) The OurFairDeal coalition has posted on its website an open letter to governments negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, TPP. The Coalition fears that the TPP’s Intellectual Property Rights chapter will harm the open internet and impact negatively on copyright, an issue that affects libraries in particular. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is being…
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