(7 July 2014) Primary Research Group has published The Survey of Academic Libraries, 2014-15 Edition, ISBN 978-1-57440-293-3. The study looks at trends in staffing, salaries, budgets, materials purchasing, technology use and more in U.S. academic libraries. More here.
(14 July 2014) After 15 years, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has decided to discontinue the Access to Learning Award. While the foundation is extremely proud of the ATLA recipients and the creative ways they have increased and expanded public access to technology to help people improve their lives, the decision was made after…
(14 July 2014) Want to build your professional network and learn about librarianship around the world? The International Librarians Network (ILN) is for you. The ILN peer mentoring program is a facilitated program aimed at helping librarians develop international networks. ILN is pleased to announce the next round of this popular program will commence in September…
(16 July 2014) Singapore’s National Library Board, NLB, has removed three books for children for not being ‘pro family’. Between them, the three titles – And Tango Makes Three, The White Swan Express and Who’s In My Family? feature two male penguins who hatch a penguin chick, and human would-be parents including a same sex couple…
(14 July 2014) Taiwan’s Education Minister Chiang Wei-ling resigned on Monday 14 July over his links to a researcher whose papers were retracted from an international scientific journal because of alleged fraud. SAGE, the British publisher of the Journal of Vibration and Control or JVC, where the papers appeared, announced on 8 July that it…
(14 July 2014) Discussions regarding an international copyright instrument for libraries and archives again collapsed inconclusively at the 28th meeting of the Standing Committee on Copyright & Related Rights (SCCR) in Geneva, from Monday 30 June – Friday 4 July, reports IFLA. In the early hours of Saturday 5 July, Member States finally “agreed to disagree”…
(12 July 2014) The EIFL eLibrary Myanmar project started in December 2013 continues to progress. Students and faculty at Yangon University and Mandalay University now have unrestricted access to an online library of over 10,000 high-quality international journals and over 130,000 academic eBooks. The training of librarians, faculty and students has also started with over…
(11 July 2014) The Associate Editor will be responsible for developing and updating the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) within the framework of the editorial plan and in response to current and future needs of the worldwide Dewey user community – 200,000 libraries in 135 countries plus emerging uses inside and outside of libraries. Slisjobs has…
(11 July 2014) Jonathan Band, policybandwidth and legal counsel to the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA), has released an analysis of the recent Authors Guild v. HathiTrust decision, “What Does the HathiTrust Decision Mean for Libraries?” (PDF). As Band notes, “The decision has implications for libraries that go far beyond the specific facts of the case.…
(10 July 2014) The Europeana Newspapers project, in which LIBER is a partner, has just released a promotional video showcasing historic newspapers.
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