(1 July 2015) This extension to the Library’s Legal Deposit scheme means that the library can now archive Australia’s digital content alongside more traditional published works. Guidelines as to how people can deposit their works have been developed in conjunction with industry and the Attorney-General’s Department, and we understand they will be published shortly on…
(1 July 2015) As part of the ‘Digital India’ initiative, the Government recently unveiled the e-Basta platform which will provide digital and eBook versions of school books and other study material to school students through-out India. The platform, eBasta, is merely not a library of books, but a collaborative platform where school book publishers, school…
(1 July 2015, Kathmandu) The Tribhuvan University (TU) Central Library will take two years to manage the earthquake damage before normal services can recommence, library officials have said. The 25 April 2015 earthquake has caused NPR 1.5 million damage to the library which houses some 400,000 volumes of books, thousands of research journals and some…
(30 June 2015) The ALIA Australian Public Library Alliance has published a comprehensive report covering its achievements, as the peak body for public libraries in Australia, for the five years from 2010 to 2015. The report provides an outstanding example of local government collaborating nationally, and shows how public library services in every state and…
(1 July 2015) The Tibetan Buddhism Resource Center has announced its exhibition space on the Google Cultural Institute platform, online and via mobile device. The TBRC partnership with GCI will allow people worldwide to intimately explore and interact with high-resolution images from select manuscripts in our digital archive. The Google Cultural Institute brings together millions…
(29 June 2015) Last week, a ground-breaking ceremony was celebrated for the new 30,000 square metre central library in Ningbo, China. schmidt hammer lassen architects won the competition in 2013 to design the 240 million RMB (€ 29 million) Central Library in the eastern port city of Ningbo. The new 30,000m2 library will house the…
(30 June 2015) Taiwan’s first library dedicated to Aboriginal children opened in Pingtung County’s Changjhih Township (長治) on Saturday. The Vusam Children’s Library hopes to devote more resources and time to Aboriginal children’s education. According to Vusam organization founder Liang Ming-hui (梁明輝), the difficulties of travel and general lack of educational resources such as libraries,…
(30 June 2015, Hoboken, NJ) John Wiley & Sons, Inc. today announced their partnership with London- based data repository organization, Figshare. To support authors who wish to openly share their data, Wiley have embarked on this partnership with Figshare to integrate data sharing within existing journal workflows and article publication. The new data sharing service…
(25 June 2015) The American Psychological Association (APA) announces their partnership with Boston-based publishing software company ReadCube to index their scholarly journal and book collections with ReadCube’s Discover service. All 110 journals comprising the PsycARTICLES database, including several of the most highly cited and leading journals in psychology, along with more than 65,000 books and…
(25 June 2015) The U.S. Department of Education has retreated from its controversial plan to create a giant college-ratings system, top officials revealed on Wednesday. Instead, by late summer the department is now promising to produce a customizable, consumer-oriented website that won’t include any evaluations of colleges but will contain what one official described as…
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