(8 September 2015) Books are out of reach for many Cambodians, writes Katie Wudel. But nearly a third own mobile devices. So it makes sense to start thinking of reading material as mobile, too. Check out this slideshow to find out how The Asia Foundation’s Books for Asia program, in partnership with Library For All, is seeking scalable solutions to…
(8 September 2015, San Francisco) This International Literacy Day, The Asia Foundation’s Books for Asia is launching a crowdfunding campaign to benefit the Let’s Read! Asia digital library, the international nonprofit’s first eBook donation project. A collaboration with the nonprofit Library for All, the library is one of the first of its kind in developing…
(8 September 2015, Los Angeles, CA) SAGE has released a collection of more than 4,000 statistical data series for students and researchers working on business plan projects and market research assignments. Titled SAGE Business Stats, it offers historic, current, and projected demographic and industry data points down to the zip-code level. SAGE Business Stats is…
(6 September 2015) A staggering 95% of all libraries in the United States have an eBook collection, writes Michael Kozlowski in goodEreader.com. Sometimes we take this granted and get irked that there is a long waiting list for a New York Times bestseller. Why can’t libraries simply have enough titles to meet the demand? The…
(7 September 2015) Tiu Keng Leng Sports Centre and Public Library was officially opened today to provide district residents with various quality facilities for sports, leisure and reading. Speaking at the opening ceremony, the Secretary for Home Affairs, Mr Lau Kong-wah, said Tseung Kwan O has become an energetic new town with a population of…
(7 August 2015) The National Institute of Library and Information Sciences (NILIS) University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, is hosting the NILIS International Conference in Information Science (ICIS 2015), 12-14 November 2015. The theme of the meeting is Access to information; methods and measures. Conference details are here. The first day is devoted to a MPhil/PhD…
(3 September 2015) Monash University Malaysia is seeking suitably qualified candidates for the position of Academic Librarian in the Johor Bahru Clinical School, Monash University Malaysia. The Monash Library and Learning Commons has three operational units (Information Resources, Information Services and Academic Liaisons) with 29 full-time professional and paraprofessional staff. The Johor Bahru Clinical School…
(1 September 2015) American Libraries has published its 2015 Library Design Showcase, an annual celebration of new and renovated libraries in the U.S. New construction dominated this year’s submissions, but renovated and repurposed spaces were a close second, showing how today’s libraries are both conserving existing resources and adapting to economic realities. See the many…
(3 September 2015) At 183 years old, Heriot-Watt University is steeped in heritage. It was founded as the world’s first mechanics’ institute in Edinburgh, training technical and managerial staff at the time of the industrial revolution. To this day, it’s still very much focused on technology, science and business – only now it does this…
(3 September 2015, Cambridge, UK) ProQuest has further enhanced access to research this summer with the launch of the next database of Early European Books (EEB) with Collection 7, making another 7,450 titles available. This will bring the EEB program to more than 40,000 titles and 14 million pages of valuable images from the early…
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