The 2014 International Digital Library Conference (IDLC) held in Kuala Lumpur 8-10 April 2014 was an opportunity for the national libraries of Malaysia and Taiwan to forge closer ties. The theme of the conference was Preserving and Sharing Digital Resources through Co-operation and Collaboration. NCL’s Director-general Tseng was the keynote speaker, talking on “National Central…
(14 April 2014) The Taiwan Fellowship is established by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) to award foreign experts and scholars interested in research related to Taiwan, cross-strait relations, mainland China, Asia-Pacific region and Chinese studies to conduct advanced research at universities or academic institutions in Taiwan. Application period: May 1-June 30 (for grants for…
(14 April 2014, Chicago) Libraries continue to transform to meet society’s changing needs, and more than 90 percent of the respondents in an independent national survey said that libraries are important to the community. But school libraries continue to feel the combined pressures of recession-driven financial tightening and federal neglect, according to data from the…
500 top business textbooks available to libraries for the first time (14 April 2014, Alexandria, VA) – Alexander Street Press has launched Business E-books Online, a first-of-its-kind database featuring hundreds of business eBooks on one cross-searchable online interface with no digital rights restrictions. Business E-books Online gathers 500 expert-selected textbooks and reference materials in business…
(10 April 2014) The ORCID user interface is now available in Korean. The translation of the ORCID user interface was made possible through the efforts of Senator Jeong, an ORCID Ambassador. He commented, “ORCID is a strong authority control tool for bibliographic data among other things because it allows us to disambiguate very common author names…
(9 April 2014) It was announced today that all the issues of the seminal magazine, Audio Arts, have been made available digitally, for the first time, on Tate website. This unique publication, originally distributed via cassette tape and edited by the artist William (Bill) Furlong from 1972 to 2004, comprises 245 hours of rich material…
The fourth annual Library 2.014 Worldwide Virtual Conference will be held 8-9 October 2014. The conference is online, in multiple time zones over the course of two days, in multiple languages and free to attend. Everyone is invited to participate in this forum designed to foster collaboration and knowledge sharing among information professionals worldwide. The call…
(11 April 2014, Ann Arbor, Mich.) ProQuest and J.P. Morgan have joined forces to help business students and faculty make use of J.P. Morgan’s company and economic research. The companies have created J.P. Morgan Research, which contains intelligence and insight on more than 3,000 corporations worldwide and all major economies. The new research solution provides…
(10 April 2014, Farmington Hills, Mich.,/PRNewswire) Gale, part of Cengage Learning and a leading publisher of research and education resources for libraries, schools and businesses, today announced the launch of Analytics On Demand, an innovative data analysis tool to help libraries discover key insights about their library community—who is and isn’t using their resources—to better…
(10 April 2014, Seattle, Business Wire) Amazon.com today announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire comiXology, the company that revolutionized the digital comics reading experience with their immersive Guided View technology and makes discovering, buying, and reading comic books and graphic novels easier and more fun than ever before. “ComiXology’s mission is to…
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