(3 September 2015) At 183 years old, Heriot-Watt University is steeped in heritage. It was founded as the world’s first mechanics’ institute in Edinburgh, training technical and managerial staff at the time of the industrial revolution. To this day, it’s still very much focused on technology, science and business – only now it does this…
(3 September 2015, Cambridge, UK) ProQuest has further enhanced access to research this summer with the launch of the next database of Early European Books (EEB) with Collection 7, making another 7,450 titles available. This will bring the EEB program to more than 40,000 titles and 14 million pages of valuable images from the early…
Free Access to “The Public Library in an Aging Society: Developing Active Library Participation in Japan” Japan represents a typical nation with their overall demographic shifting toward the older population. In 2012, Japan’s total population was 127.5 million, of which 31 million were over 65 years of age. Now in Japan, one in every four…
(2 September 2015) Johannes Cronje, Professor of E-Learning and Dean of Informatics and Design at Cape Peninsula University of Technology is among those who no longer uses libraries to do his work as a researcher and academic. Thanks to the hard work of good librarians he’s convinced that he can do just fine without them.…
(2 September 2015) LIANZA has announced the launch of The Future of Libraries Summit Report. Aimed at driving greater collaboration in the sector this future focused summit was looking for concrete actions to cement the integral role that libraries play in their communities, whether those communities are made up of academics, students, employees, or general…
(2 September 2015) TK Park president Sirikorn Maneerin said it took three years to complete the project and the library was now ready. “The trend is moving towards digital libraries, and we see lots of leading bookstores closing down,” she noted. The pilot project was launched five years ago, with TK Park introducing a 2eBook…
(1 September 2015) A modern General Science Library worth nearly VND51 billion (US$2.24 million) was inaugurated by the Han River in Da Nang on 31 August based on the upgrade and expansion of the old library. The library also consists of functional rooms including a reading room for children, a multimedia reading room, a room…
(31 August 2015) The National Archives of Thailand is moving ahead with the digitisation of documents, photos, maps and microfilms, some dating back over a century as well as enabling online searches. Currently, researchers need to search for things manually from lists of documents, and understand the categorising system since a number of documents are…
(31 August 2105, Bogor) The wood library, named Xylarium Bogoriense, was established by Dutch colonials in 1914. The collection has 34,301 wood specimens which consist of 110 tribes (families), 675 genera (genus), and 3,667 species. There are five main functions of the wood library including supporting research on the anatomical features of woody plant taxonomy; and…
(31 August 2015, Adelaide, Australia) Curtin University in Australia has joined the early-adopter program for the Leganto reading-list solution from Ex Libris®. The Leganto solution offers innovative services for the creation, maintenance, and use of course reading lists in higher education. Tightly integrated with an institution’s course management, library management, and discovery systems, as well…
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