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The New book on “Leadership in Disruptive Times” reveals the need for organization to rethink the development of leaders in today’s post-pandemic, disruptive and digital-driven era of Industry 4.0

PublishersJuly 8, 2020

(15 Jul 2020) iGroup Asia Pacific, the leading provider of information products & library technologies and the Centre of Executive Education (CEE), an award-winning boutique executive development consulting firm, today announced their joint partnership in establishing the Disruptive Leadership Institute (DLI) based in Singapore and also the release of the publication, “Leadership in Disruptive Times” by…

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Japan: report on the 30th NDL Forum on Preservation

Asia Pacific, LibrariesJuly 7, 2020

(Jun 2020) On December 19, 2019, the National Diet Library (NDL) held its 30th Forum on Preservation—Disaster Preparedness for Archival Materials: daily preparedness, disaster response, and cooperation at the Tokyo Main Library, where librarians, conservators and other professionals discussed topics related to and exchanged ideas about the most effective ways of preserving library materials. Library…

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Clarivate releases 2020 update of Journal Citation Reports

PublishersJuly 7, 2020

(29 Jun 2020) Clarivate Plc (NYSE:CCC), a global leader in providing trusted information and insights to accelerate the pace of innovation, today released the 2020 update to its annual Web of Science Journal Citation Reports™ (JCR). The annual JCR release enables the research community to evaluate the world’s high-quality academic journals using a range of indicators, descriptive…

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Job reductions announced at EBSCO

PublishersJune 27, 2020

(26 Jun 2020) From LJ infoDOCKET: Here’s the full text of a statement from EBSCO CEO, Tim Collins: The impact of COVID-19 has been wide-reaching and continues to take its toll on our lives and the economy. With all that’s going on around us, we expect that EBSCO’s business will be impacted as well. As…

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Korea: Korean War documents designated as cultural assets

DigitizationJune 27, 2020

(24 Jun 2020) From Korean Herald: Military documents produced during the 1950-53 Korean War have been designated as cultural assets and will be open to the public this week in line with the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the conflict, the Army said Wednesday. The 7,521 documents — mainly of operational plans, orders and…

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National Library of Australia launches new and improved Trove, the digital collection of Australia

Asia Pacific, DigitizationJune 27, 2020

(27 Jun 2020) From the Canberran Times: Canberrans will now have access to a new and improved treasure trove of information as the National Library launched its new program on Friday. More than 3000 Australians contributed to a new and improved Trove system, which was unveiled after four years of work. The federal government announced a…

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Opening up cultural data in Indonesia

Asia Pacific, DigitizationJune 27, 2020

(24 Jun 2020) Cultural institutions, creative minds and tech enthusiasts have teamed up to provide integrated data on Indonesian cultures, but problems remain. The Education and Culture Ministry (of Indonesia) will set up a data portal that features a range of information in varied forms — text, photos and videos — collected by both the…

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Research shows virus undetectable on five highly circulated library materials after three days

Covid-19, LibrariesJune 27, 2020

(22 Jun 2020) In the first phase of a project to develop and disseminate science-based information about how materials can be handled to mitigate exposure to staff and visitors, scientists have found that the virus SARS-CoV-2 that causes COVID-19 is not detectable on five common library materials after three days. The findings are part of…

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EBSCO develops free tool to assist librarians with COUNTER R5 reports

ToolsJune 27, 2020

(25 Jun 2020) EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has developed a new resource to make harvesting COUNTER reports easier. The SUSHI Harvester for Multi-Site Libraries (the R5 Harvester) is a Microsoft Access tool designed to help small to medium size consortia more easily gather COUNTER reports for their affiliated libraries. The R5 Harvester was created by…

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Elsevier releases 2019 CiteScore

PublishersJune 24, 2020

(9 Jun 2020) CiteScore 2019 values are now available in Scopus! Enhanced CiteScore methodology CiteScore 2019 has a new and enhanced methodology based on customer feedback, and industry expertise, ensuring that CiteScore remains comprehensives, current, clear and free. The new methodology will also be used to retrospectively calculated CiteScore values for all previous years (2011…

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