(14 January 2014) How many books and DVDs can your higher degree students borrow? 30, 40? How about staff? The librarians at La Trobe University, Australia, have increased the number and time for borrowing. The new numbers are here.
(15 January 2014) Thinking of redesigning your library’s website? Duke University has done just that. Visit this smart new website here.
(13 January 2014) The National Archives, UK is currently advertising for a full-time, permanent Lead Developer based in Kew, West London, to deliver its new Digital Repository Infrastructure. For details see http://tinyurl.com/kv3hme9. Closing date is Monday 20th January 2014 at midnight. Read the announcement here.
(13 January 2014) From the end of January 2014 the team from FutureLearn, the UK’s first provider of massive open online courses (MOOCs), will be taking up residency in the British Library as part of a commercial leasing agreement. Separately from the leasing agreement, the British Library is working with FutureLearn to develop ideas for…
(7 January 2014) UCLA is recruiting a Japanese Studies Librarian for the Richard C. Rudolph East Asian Library. The application deadline is 20 February 2014. The description of the post is here.
(10 January 2014) The Southeast Asian Library Group, SEALG, reports that the online catalogue for the The National Museum of Cambodia was anounced 3 January 2014. The museum, founded in 1920, houses one of the world’s greatest collections of Khmer cultural material including sculpture, ceramics and ethnographic objects from the prehistoric, pre-Angkorian, Angkorian and post-Angkorian…
(13 January 2014) In memory of Sir Run Run Shaw, a Condolence Corner will be set up at the Library Multi-purpose Lobby for staff, students and alumni to pay tribute to Sir Run Run from 13 to 27 January 2014. In remembrance of Sir Run Run’s contributions to CityU Library, the Library will organize an …
(10 January 2014) CAUL has published a list of resources describing projects, publications and websites on library data and text mining. Peruse it here. If the value and impact of university libraries is more your thing, there’s a list for that too describing conferences, projects, publications, websites and websites. Click here to view.
(9 January 2014) Have you got a library cat? The OEDB.org blog reports that there are 300 living resident library cats throughout the world the majority of whom are United States residents. Among them are Baker and Taylor in a Nevada library and Pages in Kansas. These library cats have job titles and job descriptions…
(9 January 2014) Futuregov.asia reports that Korea’s digitized national treasures are accessible through the new Korea National Heritage Online portal. Run by the Cultural Heritage Administration (CHA), it brings together information collected from existing subsidiary websites and also has 1.8 million new pieces of data on the national heritage. Read the Futuregov.asia article by Medha Basu…
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