(10 October 2016) In commemoration of the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s (1564-1616) death, a copy of the English writer’s collection First Folio will be displayed at a free public exhibition from October 26 to 29 in Hong Kong. The First Folio was collated seven years after the Bard’s passing by fellow actors and friends…
(9 October 2016, Lucknow) Under pressure from the Allahabad High Court, India, the Aligarh Muslim University has agreed to open its Maulana Azad library – one of the best in Asia – to women students and provide extra security in the area. The court’s order came today during the hearing of an appeal that said women…
(5 October 2016) The Myanmar Institute of Strategic and International Studies, which researches international relations and foreign policy issues, and whose foreign policy and strategy recommendations help guide Myanmar’s bilateral and multilateral relations, has joined the EIFL eLibrary Myanmar project. In addition to making important contributions to foreign policy formulation, the institute’s work aims to…
(5 October 2016, Danvers, Mass.) RightsDirect, a wholly owned subsidiary of Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), is hosting complimentary copyright compliance education events in India on Tuesday 25 October, at the Jnana Jyothi Auditorium of the University of Bangalore and Thursday 27 October, at the Sofitel Mumbai BKC. RightsDirect provides licensing and information management solutions…
(5 October 2016) This high-level checklist was created by Bertram Lyons for a program coordinated by the Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts on collecting and preserving oral history materials in libraries, museums, and archives. This checklist does not consider the act of recording oral histories as a collector or interviewer; it documents basic principles…
(7 October 2016) The Collections and Discovery Services Librarian develops implements and delivers services in procurement, metadata, copyright/license management, discovery and collection assessment. This role is involved in the provision on conversion services for students with print disabilities. The Collections and Discovery Services Librarian is a member of the Collections and Content Development portfolio, which…
(8 October 2016) Even as it faces acute staff shortage, National Library authorities are allegedly sitting for decades on the appointment of about 18 candidates on compassionate grounds. Such appointments are usually given to a dependent family member when a government employee dies while in service or retires on medical grounds. As reported by The…
(7 October 2016) The Red Market Library, under the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC), offers 24-hour service on a trial basis from 7 October. During the trial operation, residents can access the Library by scanning the Macao SAR Resident Identity Cards or Non-resident Worker’s Identification Cards on the self-registration system at the entrance daily from 8pm…
(6 October 2016) As of 6 October 2016, a Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) search includes over 100 million documents! Globally the collections of open access archives are now collectively an order of magnitude larger than the 10 million articles and books claimed by Elsevier for Science Direct. Congratulations to BASE and everyone in the…
(6 October 2016, Rockville, Md.) The number of open access (OA) research articles published annually is growing at double the rate of the complete spectrum of research articles — this according to the most recent report from media and publishing intelligence firm Simba Information. The report, Open Access Journal Publishing 2016-2020, found that open access…
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