(5 November 2015) Parliamentary speeches have advanced political careers over the centuries, but more often than not destroyed them. Those key moments when politicians speak their minds and history is made, usually leading to the downfall of those whom their words were directed. Political speeches and chamber quips always make for entertaining reading, and researchers…
(9 November 2015) In Bhutan, as with many Himalayan Buddhist cultures, key texts were considered auspicious objects that were traditionally kept in temples, monasteries and private homes, for ritual use and/or propitiation. When the National Library and Archives of Bhutan (འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་དཔེ་མཛོད་དང་ཡིག་རིགས་གཏན་འཇོག་ཁང་། or NLAB) was founded in 1967, the country did not yet possess a strong…
(8 November 2015) The changing educational, social and recreational role of the library is a hotly debated subject among planners and readers alike. On a visit to Delhi, Bruno Racine, director of Bibliotheque Nationale de France (National Library of France), explains to The Hindu how public libraries need to become more interactive spaces. France and…
(9 November 2015) Everybody has an opinion about Geelong’s $45 million library and heritage centre. The Mayor calls it a huge brain. Residents have called it an eggshell, ugly and so on. Make up your own mind by visiting the illustrated article by Debbie Cuthbertson in the Canberra Times.
(9 November 2015) Publishing Technology reports that next week (9-16th November 2015) in the UK marks the inaugural Academic Book Week. Part of the two-year long Academic Book of the Future Project led out of University College London (UCL), Academic Book Week is a week-long showcase of academic book excellence aiming to open up a…
(9 November 2015) The International Librarians Network (ILN) and the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) are pleased to announce they are partnering in a new arrangement which will benefit ALIA members and library and information professionals around the world. From January 2016, ALIA will be offering their members the opportunity to participate in the ALIA Mentoring Scheme, powered…
(26 October 2015) The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) has published a discussion paper titled Deadline 2025: Collections at Risk, warning that thousands of hours of audiovisual content currently held on magnetic tapes in national cultural collections risks being lost forever, unless it is digitised by the year 2025. NFSA CEO Michael…
(8 November 2015) Debate has flared over the management of public libraries in Japan by a private company, with supporters claiming these libraries have become more enjoyable, while detractors worry that the selection of books at these institutions does not serve the public good. The libraries are being managed by Culture Convenience Club Co. (CCC),…
(7 November 2015) The Claremont Colleges, a distinguished consortium of five undergraduate liberal arts colleges and two graduate institutions located just east of Los Angeles, California, seeks an energetic, innovative, and productive Head of the Asian Library (HAL) for the Claremont Colleges Library. Reporting to the Director of Special Collections and Libraries, the HAL will…
(7 November 2015) Thousands of librarians are mobilizing to help their communities prepare for the general election. Some people do not know that they are eligible to vote. Others are unfamiliar with how to correctly fill out a ballot. And because some of the political parties’ symbols are similar, it can be difficult to distinguish…
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