(9 November 2015) The International Librarians Network (ILN) and the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) are pleased to announce they are partnering in a new arrangement which will benefit ALIA members and library and information professionals around the world. From January 2016, ALIA will be offering their members the opportunity to participate in the ALIA Mentoring Scheme, powered…
(26 October 2015) The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) has published a discussion paper titled Deadline 2025: Collections at Risk, warning that thousands of hours of audiovisual content currently held on magnetic tapes in national cultural collections risks being lost forever, unless it is digitised by the year 2025. NFSA CEO Michael…
(8 November 2015) Debate has flared over the management of public libraries in Japan by a private company, with supporters claiming these libraries have become more enjoyable, while detractors worry that the selection of books at these institutions does not serve the public good. The libraries are being managed by Culture Convenience Club Co. (CCC),…
(7 November 2015) The Claremont Colleges, a distinguished consortium of five undergraduate liberal arts colleges and two graduate institutions located just east of Los Angeles, California, seeks an energetic, innovative, and productive Head of the Asian Library (HAL) for the Claremont Colleges Library. Reporting to the Director of Special Collections and Libraries, the HAL will…
(7 November 2015) Thousands of librarians are mobilizing to help their communities prepare for the general election. Some people do not know that they are eligible to vote. Others are unfamiliar with how to correctly fill out a ballot. And because some of the political parties’ symbols are similar, it can be difficult to distinguish…
(7 November 2015) Jiading Public Library said yesterday it is closing its doors to organized tour groups, after becoming inundated with visitors more interested in its modern architecture and stylish interior design than its reading and reference materials. “This is a library, not a tourist attraction,” Chen Weijian, director of readers service at the library,…
(4 November 2015, Washington) The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) announced today a strategic partnership with Figshare (http://figshare.com/), an open repository that promotes broad discoverability of scientific research data. The ACS-Figshare partnership will not only provide for improved archiving and access to open data sets and other supporting information that often accompany…
(6 November 2015) The Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM) and IOP Publishing (IOP) have been journal-publishing partners for more than 40 years. IPEM and IOP are today announcing that they will create a new eBook programme specifically designed for the medical physics and biomedical engineering communities. Professor David Brettle, President of IPEM…
(28 October 2015) The length of monographs and their level of treatment pose unique challenges in a search environment. Monographs generally describe mature work unlike journal articles, which usually describe early stage work. As a result, it can be hard to achieve a successful search experience for restricted access monographs, according to Anurag Acharya of…
(5 November 2015) The Malaysian Citation Centre (MCC) has been set up by the Ministry of Education (MOE) to improve Malaysian university rankings by improving the quality of Malaysian publications especially scholarly journals. MCC is a one-stop centre that will help internationalize Malaysian journal publications, making their content accessible globally and indexed locally by MyCite…
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