(26 June 2014) The UBC Asian Library has announced the passing of Ms. Tung King Ng (伍冬瓊), the first Head of the Asian Library, at age 92. Ms. Ng graduated from the Chinese Department, University of Hong Kong where she worked as the Librarian of the Fung Ping Shan Library (馮平山圖書館). She joined the UBC Library…
(25 June 2014, San Francisco, CA) Top Hat, a mobile and web-based teaching platform that improves learning outcomes in the classroom, today announced an integration with collaborative textbook platform Boundless to bring affordable, digital textbooks to students at the more than 400 universities Top Hat serves, including Harvard, UCLA, Duke and MIT. Top Hat’s cloud-based…
(26 June 2014) IFLA reports that copyright negotiations commence once more in Geneva, Switzerland next week at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), where a proposed international framework supporting copyright exceptions and limitations for libraries and archives is likely to be the subject of intense discussion among Member States. The 28th meeting of the WIPO…
(23 June 2014) The Chicago Public Library has been awarded $400,000 by the Knight Foundation for its initiative to expand internet access throughout the community. The library’s program, called Internet to Go, will test wi-fi hotspot lending in six neighborhood libraries. These libraries will loan devices for three weeks at a time and provide digital…
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