(30 April 2015) READ Nepal establishes community library and resource centers (READ Centers) by partnering with rural communities where a majority of women are illiterate, and most families live below the poverty line. All of the 59 READ Centers are owned and operated by the local community. Each Center has a library, computer room, women’s…
(30 April 2015) A Public Services The University of Toronto is hiring a Public Service Librarian for its Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library and Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library. The latter features a unique research collection on Canada-Hong Kong studies and an active outreach program. The library provides resources and services to accommodate…
(28 April 2015, Oakland, Calif) Turnitin®, the leader in originality checking and online grading, today announced the general availability of Turnitin Scoring Engine, a service that provides automated scoring of short answer texts and written essays. Turnitin Scoring Engine provides instant scoring of student-written texts in online learning environments, or for assessing essays at the…
(29 April 2015) The Artstor Digital Library is looking to the community to help guide our development. Made up of 30 members representing a variety of areas of the Artstor community, the Advisory Group will gather through virtual meetings three times a year to identify critical user issues regarding new tools, features, and functionality of…
(28 April 2015) The China National Science and Technology Library (NSTL) has approved the purchase and hosting of the Karger Journal Archive Collection. It comprises journal issues from 1893 to 1997. The licence covers nationwide access for academic and noncommercial organizations in mainland China. It is the first national agreement in this part of the…
(29 April 2015) The National University of Singapore (NUS) has been placed among the world’s 10 best universities for 11 subjects across disciplines in architecture/built environment, engineering, science, and the social sciences, according to the latest QS World University Rankings by Subject. The University is also Asia’s best across 21 subjects, up from 18 subjects…
(29 April 2015) On 24 April 2015, Dr. Verapong Chaiperm, Governor of Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand (IEAT), presented a cheque of 500,000 Thai Baht to the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) on behalf of IEAT as a substantial donation to the ongoing AIT Library Modernization Campaign. The donation was supplemented with another 500,000 Baht…
(29 April 2015) The 2015-16 State Budget will provide AUD$55.4 million to transform the State Library of Victoria, Australia, bringing it to the doorstep of primary and secondary students across the state and their families. Minister for Creative Industries, Martin Foley, made the announcement today while visiting the library, which attracts almost 1.8 million people…
(12 June 2015) Last 3 days of discounted Skype calls to mobiles and landlines in Nepal Skype will be ending discounted calls on 15 June, 2015 at 1200 GMT and reinstating standard pricing to call mobiles and landlines. Skype to Skype voice and video calls will remain free to everyone. Skype hopes these discounted calls…
(28 April 2015) The National Diet Library, Japan, conducted a survey on the trend of information behavior and the awareness of public libraries, as a part of its library cooperation activities. This survey asked people, including those who do not usually use libraries, about their trends of information behavior, e.g. how much information they obtain…
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