(24 May 2016) The top five performing national higher education systems are the United States, Switzerland, Denmark, the United Kingdom and Sweden, according to the Universitas 21 annual ranking for 2016. But the country with the most improved performance is China, up four places to 30th due to continual rise in output rankings. University World…
(24 May 2016) New resources are being added to Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA) all the time but this latest addition represents an enormous boost to the online collection, with 15,000 new eBooks now bringing the total number of books to 22,000. The primary publishers of the new books are Elsevier, John…
Special topic: CDNLAO Meeting [New Zealand] Hosting the 24th Conference of Directors of National Libraries in Asia and Oceania (CDNLAO) [Japan] Participating in the 24th CDNLAO Meeting [Singapore] IFLA Regional Office (Asia & Oceania) – International Collaboration in the Region and How to Contribute News [Bhutan] Mr. Dasho Dorji Norbu, newly-appointed Director General of the National Library and Archives of Bhutan [Japan]…
(25 May 2016) Yale-NUS College, Singapore, seeks innovative, self-motivated and service-oriented professionals to provide research assistance and instruction, and build collections to support the teaching, learning and research needs of the college community. You will undertake subject responsibilities and lead in one or more of the following operational areas: instructional services, reference and research services,…
(24 May 2016) The famous Blaeu-Van der Hem Atlas is kept at the Austrian National Library in Vienna. In 2004, UNESCO added it to the tangible listing of World Heritage, also referred to as the ‘Memory of the World’, to preserve it for the future. The facsimile edition contains the most important volumes: the so-called…
(24 May 2016, Beijing, Xinhua) The Chinese government has added 899 valuable ancient manuscripts to the catalog under state protection. They include oracles, manuscripts on bamboo strips and silk scrolls, ancient paper copies of tablet inscriptions, rare manuscripts in ethnic minority languages and in foreign languages such as Latin and English, said Zhang Zhiqing, deputy…
(24 May 2016) All around the world, shadow libraries keep growing, filled with banned materials. But no actual papers trade hands: Everything is digital, and the internet-accessible content is not banned for shocking content so much as that modern crime, copyright infringement. But for the people who run the world’s pirate libraries, their goals are…
(24 May 2016) At 32nd session of the World Intellectual Property Organisation’s (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR), which met earlier this month in Geneva, libraries made many interventions. In particular, IFLA and others made the case for: Parallel Importation – allowing libraries and archives to purchase works from abroad when they are…
(23 May 2016, Los Angeles, PRWEB) Cosmetic Town, an online plastic surgery community dedicated to connecting doctors and patients to provide information about cosmetic procedures, began updating their library of over 300 encyclopedic medical articles. The Cosmetic Town team has now started to rewrite each of their published articles in order to feature the latest…
(23 May 2016) The librarian will supervise all library services within the firm, formulating library practices & polices, updating library related sections, conducting training on legal research, etc. The successful candidate must have at least 8 years of relevant experience, ideally with experience working in international law firms. Excellent command in both written and spoken…
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