(13 September 2016) State Library Victoria will be the 2016 hub for Melbourne Music Week, illuminating the city’s world-renowned music scene. Speaking at the launch today Lord Mayor of Melbourne Robert Doyle said he was “delighted to be partnering with one of the icons of Melbourne, the great State Library Victoria as our Melbourne Music Week…
(12 September 2016) The Bodleian Libraries’ new Weston Library reopened to readers in 2014 following a three-year, £80 million refurbishment and is now a finalist for the RIBA Stirling Prize 2016. The Grade II listed building, originally known as the New Bodleian Library, was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott in the 1930s and opened…
(13 September 2016) The maps were captured in the waning days of World War II as the U.S. Army took control of Japan. American soldiers confiscated thousands of secret Japanese military maps and the plates used to print them, then shipped them to the United States for safekeeping. Stanford has so far led the way…
(12 September 2016, Chicago) The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) announces the publication of Bridging Worlds: Emerging Models and Practices of U.S. Academic Libraries Around the Globe. Edited by Raymond Pun, Scott Collard, and Justin Parrott, the book provides insight into international academic libraries and provides best practices and practical leadership strategies. Over…
(8 September 2016) Greg Sterling writes that in a decision that is already controversial, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled in favor of copyright owners and against hyperlinks. The CJEU decision, though qualified, raises the strong possibility that publishers linking to infringing third party sites will also be liable for…
(9 September 2016) IGI Global has proudly released their mobile-friendly platform that allows users the ability to access over 3,400 e-books, 164+ e-journals, and 100+ streaming video lectures. The updated features of the platform include a cleaner and more attractive layout and design, a streamlined mobile user experience allowing the site to be accessed on…
(22 August 2016, Washington, DC) Increasingly, social scientists use multiple forms of communication to engage broader audiences with their research and contribute to solutions of the pressing problems of our time. Yet, in academia, it is unclear whether these efforts to communicate with the public should count when colleges and universities are evaluating scholars. To…
(9 September 2016, Heidelberg, Germany) EMBO and John Wiley and Sons, Inc. announced today the launch of the ‘SmartFigures Lab’, a prototype online publishing website with enhanced data presentation capabilities. The site results from the integration of SmartFigures, an open source application of the EMBO SourceData platform, with Wiley’s Content Enrichment Framework and research &…
(9 September 2016) Jingwei Primary School in Harbin, Heilongjiang province has won a competition to find the most beautiful school library in China, Harbin Daily reported. The school was selected from 76 institutions from across the country that entered the contest run by the China Library Society. Its large collection of 60,000 books helped it…
(8 September 2016) A Chinese university has announced an ambitious plan to build the largest database in Asia on the Japanese war criminal trials that followed World War II. Shanghai Jiaotong University, together with the National Library of China and The Second Historical Archives of China, will collect dossiers on Japanese war criminals excluding the…
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