(7 April 2015) Rick Anderson writes that a week or so ago, a monumental thing happened: the number of public-domain books in the HathiTrust digital repository topped 5 million. And since no one (including HathiTrust, so far) seems to be making a very big deal about this, it seems like a good moment both to…
(7 April 2015) The Chinese collection at the British Library includes an interesting series of around 40 posters produced in the 1970s and 1980s in the People’s Republic of China which represent an extraordinary example of popular visual material created by official sources to promote a sense of shared history and national identity. The Chinese…
(3 April 2015) The edX Library Collaboration has published a report resulting from a project in which librarians at 39 higher education institutions were interviewed about how they were supporting MOOCs. The institutions were mostly in North America, but with some from Australia, China and Europe, and they were almost all using either edX or…
(5 April 2015) Themed Future of Business Libraries: issues and challenges, business libraries must remain relevant in the coming years. This meeting examines the issues. The venue is Macquarie University Library, Sydney, Australia, 23-25 September 2015.
(3 April 2015) Among the Malay manuscripts in the British Library which have just been digitised are a number of vocabulary lists and dictionaries in Malay, compiled by visitors to the region as aids to learning the language. The study of Malay in Europe dates back to the very first voyages to Southeast Asia in the…
The NLC holds 2015 Working Conference on Party Style and Clean and Honest Administration Construction (2 April 2015) From 25 March to 26 March, 2015 Digital Library Promotion Project propagandists training course, which was sponsored by the National Library of China (NLC), organized by Wuhan Cultural Affairs Bureau, and co-organized by Wuhan Library, was held…
New platform enables digital content providers to integrate with all major worldwide legacy integrated library systems (ILS) on desktop and all major mobile devices (2 April 2015, Sunnyvale, CA, PRWEB) Aggregators, publishers and other content providers can now get their products to market faster, reduce costs, and provide a better user experience to worldwide library…
(January 2015) United Technologies recently donated the 300th student library in partnership with the international nonprofit The Library Project. This marks a new milestone for the UTC China Library Project since its inception in 2011. “UTC is a company with a rich legacy of innovation and commitment to make things better,” said Liping Xie, President,…
(1 April 2015, Bangkok) Thailand has toughened its copyright law to include, for the first time, responsibility of intermediaries, or internet service providers, for infringement of copyright work on the internet, and separately, to penalise people who record movies being shown in theatres without authorisation with a maximum imprisonment of four years. Intellectual Property Watch…
(1 April 2015) To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the National Library, the National Library and Documentation Services Board of Sri Lanka has planned an International Conference with the main objective of strengthening cooperation among national libraries in South and Southeast Asia. The conference will take place in Colombo, Sri Lanka from 5-6 August 2015.…
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-analytics | 11 months | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-functional | 11 months | The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary | 11 months | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-others | 11 months | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-performance | 11 months | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". |
| viewed_cookie_policy | 11 months | The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. It does not store any personal data. |
Enter your email address to receive the bi-weekly eNewsletter
