(22 Apr 2021) About the job: The Role Fixed Term (up to 5 years) Executive remuneration package in the range of $217,108 to $271,385 p.a. Bathurst or Wagga Wagga As Executive Director you will lead the Division of Library Services, ensuring that resources, services and programs of the Division support and enhance the learning,…
(17 Apr 2021) The latest Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2021 carried few surprises when it was released in September. The usual contestants led the rankings. Yet among these are some institutions, operating under totalitarian regimes, that do not match our expectation of what universities are about. If one adjusts the top…
German study finds academics favouring Springer Nature and Wiley, with authors warning smaller publishers could be squeezed out. (17 Apr 2021) Professor Haucap, a competition economist at the University of Düsseldorf and co-author of “The impact of the German ‘DEAL’ on competition in the academic publishing market”, and his colleagues chose to look at chemistry because the field…
(Apr 2021) From National Diet Library Newsletter: With the COVID-19 pandemic, remote library services are becoming more and more important. In this article, we would like to introduce the NDL’s online services and examples of their use: Digital Exhibitions of the National Diet Library The digital exhibitions introduce unique collections of the NDL with…
(1 Apr 2021) ALIA has published a report, ALIA working for special libraries 2016-2021, which highlights the Association’s initiatives in supporting Australian special libraries over the last five years. In 2016, at the ALIA National Conference in Adelaide, 28 leaders from special libraries in government, health, law, research and other fields came together to discuss the…
(14 Apr 2021) On the last day of 2020, the Chinese Academy of Sciences issued the first Early Warning List of International Journals. While it includes just 65 journals, the list disproportionately targets journals that are fully open access (OA) and attract a high volume of Chinese content in absolute or relative terms, notably IEEE Access, several…
(26 Mar 2021) The Coleridge Initiative has launched a major Kaggle competition – Show US the Data – that challenges data scientists to help show how publicly funded data and evidence are used to serve science and society. CHORUS is serving as a partner to the initiative. Data scientists will use machine learning and…
(Apr 2021) About this job: Requirements: Minimum Diploma in Information Management (majoring in Records & Collections) Computer literacy – with ability to manage information systematically and accurately Good communications skills in English and BM, both spoken and written Preferably male candidates Main Responsibilities: – Artefact Documentation Documentation of entries, exits and condition reports for…
A new library and community center in Nasushiobara by the Japanese architecture studio of Mari Ito, UAo, takes its cues from forests (10 Apr 2021) The city of Nasushiobara has just got a new library and community centre courtesy of the dynamic Japanese architecture studio of Mari Ito, UAo. A geometric composition out of…
(21 Apr 2021) The Library of Southeast Asian Studies at the University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg in Frankfurt recently catalogued two Indonesian leftist journals both entitled “API – Api Pemuda Indonesia” (‘Flames of Indonesian Youth’) which were published in Tirana in Albania from the 1960s onwards. Actually, two different editions of API were issued, one…