(4 May 2014, PRWEB) With its 25,000 free book exchanges worldwide, the non-profit Little Free Library® has made a big impact through its global literacy movement by bringing books to millions and building community through reading. It aims to do more by doubling and deepening its impact by 2017, and the Little Free Library Big…
(4 May 2015) The 2015 PRRLA meeting will be held in Eugene at the University of Oregon, from 19-21 October 2015. PRRLA, Pacific Rim Research Alliance Libraries, formerly PRDLA is here http://pr-rla.org/
(4 May 2015) Following a discussion at the December meeting in Macau, members have voted to change the organisation’s name. The new name – Pacific Rim Research Alliance Libraries – acknowledges that “digital” has long become business as usual, and reflects the primary focus of our research-led university libraries group. The domain name has been changed…
(1 May 2015, Chicago) The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) announces the release of Meaningful Metrics: A 21st Century Librarian’s Guide to Bibliometrics, Altmetrics, and Research Impact by Robin Chin Roemer and Rachel Borchardt. What does it mean to have meaningful research metrics in today’s complex higher education landscape? This highly engaging and…
(30 April 2015) Today Antarctica New Zealand delivered its physical pictorial collection, totaling more than 40,000 images, to Archives New Zealand. Spanning more than sixty years, this extensive pictorial collection will be housed at Archives New Zealand’s Wellington repository to ensure the public record of New Zealand’s Antarctic history is preserved. “This pictorial collection is…
(1 May 2015) On March 24, the National Diet Library released The union catalog of modern Japanese music printed before 1945 in Research Navi. You can search musical scores printed in Japan before 1945 and owned by NDL and other libraries in Japan. Traditional Japanese scores are not included. This Database has been compiled by…
(30 April 2015) A key research database listing well over half a million artists’ names is now available for free download, modification, and sharing The Getty Research Institute has released the Union List of Artist Names (ULAN)® as Linked Open Data (LOD). ULAN®, along with the other Getty vocabularies, is created and maintained by the…
(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…
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