(7 July 2015) The 11th Australasian Rare Books Summer School will be held from 31 January to 5 February, 2016 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The event will be hosted by the State Library of New South Wales at the State Library in Macquarie Street. The announcement is here.
(6 June 2015) Worldwide Orphans Foundation (WWO) on Friday opened a toy library in the southern province of Vinh Long, the second one in Vietnam, aiming to bring joy to disadvantaged children. BaoMi.com has the story.
(6 July 2015) Tiu Keng Leng Public Library, located at 4 Chui Ling Road in Tseung Kwan O, opens on 9 July offering comprehensive and diverse library services to residents in the district. Tiu Keng Leng Public Library is a district library with a floor area of about 2,900 square metres. The 200-seat Students’ Study…
Ms. Low Jiaxin is the recipient of the Library Association of Singapore’s Outstanding Newcomer Award. She has worked at the Singapore Management University Libraries since 2012 and is currently the Research Librarian, Business. Read the citation here. LAS Awards is here.
(30 June 2015) The Australian Public Library Alliance has published a report covering its achievements from 2010 to 2015. The report is here. The IFLA website also has some details.
(6 July 2015) Just in time for the 20th anniversary of CIAO (Columbia University Affairs Online) this year, the new site features a brand new interface, vastly improved searching and more content than ever before, including books, videos and detailed maps. – Improved functionality – A brand new design and user-friendly interface – Faceted search…
(2 July 2015) SHERPA/FACT, the funders and author’s compliance tool, has been found to be more than 95% accurate when checking publisher policies against funder mandates for open access – significantly higher than even experienced repository managers. A study by the SHERPA/FACT advisory group compared the information provided by SHERPA/FACT with a control made up…
(3 July 2015) ‘Enabling Complex Analysis of Large Scale Digital Collections’, a project funded by the Jisc Research Data Spring, empowers researchers to turn their research questions into computational queries and gathers social and technical requirements for infrastructures and services that allow computational exploration of big humanities data. Melissa Terras, Professor of Digital Humanities at…
(2 July 2015) With the aim of contributing to the improvement of education and development environment for children, today, Shinsegae Corporation – the parent firm of Emart hypermarket system – has signed an MOU on establishing the Hope Toy Library in Ho Chi Minh City, where the first Emart hypermarket will soon be opened. Shinsegae…
(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…
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