(13 October 2015) Singapore’s Business Times reports that partnerships have been signed between China and Singapore to further develop the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City. Among them is the development of the eco-city’s main library with the assistance of Cybrarian Ventures Pte Ltd. a subsidiary of the National Library Board. The story is here.
(13 October 2015) The Oberlin College Library invites applications for the position of East Asian Studies Librarian. Under the supervision of the Collection Development Librarian, the incumbent is responsible for: 1) selection, acquisition, and bibliographic control of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean language collections; 2) liaison and instruction activities with faculty and students in East Asian…
(11 October 2015) Softlink is inviting teacher librarians and library staff across Australia and New Zealand to participate in the 2015 Australian and New Zealand School Library Survey. The 2015 School Library Survey represents the sixth year of the survey for Australian schools and the first for New Zealand schools. Softlink’s Managing Director, Nathan Godfrey, said…
(12 October 2015, London & Boston) Digital Science today launched the Global Research Identifier Database (GRID), a free, easy-to-use online database that opens up information about research organisations around the world to data scientists, developers and innovators within academic and commercial organisations. The GRID dataset addresses the problem of messy and inconsistent data on research…
A Sustainable Library Series White Paper (12 October 2015) Download a white paper based on a SLA 2015 Conference Hot Topic session – the second in a series of panel discussions on the Sustainable Library. Special librarians achieve sustainability by understanding that end user requirements and forces at work (e.g. new technologies, globalization and a…
(October 2015) As humanities scholars are paying more and more attention to the utilization of technologies in their research, the field of digital humanities has started to build momentum as an emerging area of research. As a result, librarians must also evaluate the role of academic libraries in supporting digital humanities, addressing questions such…
(October 2015) OPAC is the main way for users to access information resources and services of the library, so it’s very important for libraries to improve their OPAC. The article by Wang Fengxuan and Zheng Lin of School of Government, Beijing Normal University, analyzed the development status of the 985 project-universities’ libraries’ OPACs from 7…
11 October 2015) TorrentFreak reporting on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has revealed that Wikileaks has published a leaked copy of the intellectual property chapter, which has yet to be officially revealed. The final version removes the uncertainties that were present in previous drafts and raises serious concerns among many copyright experts and activists. If the…
(8 October 2105) To fulfill the promise of the right to read for blind, visually impaired and other print disabled people, EIFL is supporting ratification of the Marrakesh Treaty in partner countries, and its implementation into national copyright law. In a project supported by the EIFL Copyright and Libraries Programme, the Mongolian Libraries Consortium (MLC)…
(9 October 2015) A thousand dollars, a hundred thousand or a million? Peter Lund, the UC Research Support Manager and Anton Angelo, Research Data Co-ordinator, University of Canterbury, New Zealand have tried to calculate how much the University of Canterbury pays in article processing charges (APCs). The question was not easy to answer. University financial systems were…
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