ALIA National 2016 Conference
ALIA National 2016 will be held at the Adelaide Convention Centre, Australia from 29 August to 2 September 2016. The announcement is here.
ALIA National 2016 will be held at the Adelaide Convention Centre, Australia from 29 August to 2 September 2016. The announcement is here.
(27 May 2015) Despite the increasingly widespread readership of electronic books, e-book loan services at libraries show no signs of catching on. The Japan News has the story by Yuki Kobayashi.
(26 May 2015, Geneva) New figures released by ITU indicate that over the past 15 years, information and communication technologies (ICTs) have grown in an unprecedented way, providing huge opportunities for social and economic development. The new figures track ICT progress and show gaps in connectivity since the year 2000, when world leaders established the…
(27 May 2015) OpenGLAM is an initiative that is dedicated to sharing knowledge and aims to build a global cultural commons for the world to use. Coordinated by the Open Knowledge Foundation, OpenGLAM works with cultural institutions such as galleries, libraries, archives and museums to open up their content and data to the world through hands-on workshops,…
(25 May 2015, Canberra) Thrillers, crime, humour, fantasy, science fiction, cookery, biography and contemporary literature all featured in the lists of Australia’s most borrowed library books for the first quarter of 2015, announced today by the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA), at the start of Library and Information Week (25-31 May). Library and Information…
(20 May 2015) The British Library has received earmarked funding for a £9,568,900 bid from the Heritage Lottery Fund (including a £215,900 development fund) to help to save the nation’s sounds, and open them up online for everyone to hear. The funding will enable the British Library to digitise and make available 500,000 rare, unique…
(22 May 2015) The Rare Books and Special Collections section of IFLA announces a new Korean translation of the Guidelines for Planning the Digitization of Rare Book and Manuscript Collections prepared by Dr. Hye-Eun LEE (Curator, National Library of Korea) / 이혜은 역 . It is available as a free PDF file at this link.…
(22 May 2015) The Bhutan Library Consortium has posted on its website a list of online catalogues in the country. The 15 catalogues with links include colleges, institutes and The National Library. The list is here.
(23 May 2015) The University of Oregon Libraries seeks a knowledgeable, creative, and service-oriented colleague for the position of East Asian Cataloging Team Leader. The ALA website has a full description of the job.
(21 May 2015) National Central Library (NCL)’s Director General Shu-hsien Tseng and Dr. Catherine Eagleton, Head of Asian and African Studies, British Library (BL), signed a Cooperation Agreement at the NCL on May 21, 2015. Lead Curator Ms. Sara Chiesura from the BL was in attendance to witness this historic moment. The Database of the…
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