(15 February 2015) The Southeast Asia section of the British Library is fortunate in that a legacy from the estate of the late Henry D. Ginsburg (1940-2007), who was for over thirty years the Library’s curator for Thai, Lao and Cambodian collections, has enabled the digitisation of a small number of significant manuscripts, some representing…
(12 February 2015) Sydney Catholic Education Office (SCEO) schools are providing students with an engaging new interface for their Oliver v5 library solution. The new interface, ‘Orbit’, was designed specifically for junior and middle school students and is proving to be an inspiring tool for young readers. Orbit enables students to personalise their own library…
12 February 2015) The number of Wi-Fi.HK hotspots in Hong Kong has risen to more than 12,000 across the city’s 18 districts, providing convenient and free public WiFi services to the community and visitors. A total of 12 universities and tertiary institutions, plus Ngong Ping 360 have recently joined the scheme. Wi-Fi.HK hotspots are now…
(11 February 2015, Geneva) The UN Human Rights Office has launched a major public online database, http://juris.ohchr.org/, that contains all case law issued by the UN human rights expert committees, the Treaty Bodies. “The database is designed to be a key reference tool for scholars, lawyers, civil society organisations, governments and civil servants, our UN…
(30 January 2015) In Nepal, traditional music castes used to travel from village to village, carrying news and preserving history through storytelling and song. Today, that tradition is disappearing, but READ is working to keep Nepal’s history and stories alive. Five READ Centers brought together local grandparents, children, and theatre groups to transcribe, illustrate, publish,…
(6 February 2015) Four out of ten Nepali women will never visit a doctor during pregnancy. One in 200 will die in childbirth. In response to those staggering statistics, READ’s Jhuwani Community Library launched a prenatal health program using a mobile app to help save the lives of mothers and their infants. The app, designed…
(10 February 2015) This eighth annual Library Automation Perceptions Report from Marshall Breeding provides evaluative ratings submitted by individuals representing over three thousand libraries from 80 countries describing experiences with 154 different automation products, including both proprietary and open source systems. The survey results include 994 narrative comments providing candid statements — both positive and…
(10 February 2015) SMIRK (the mobile version of the information skills training package SMILE) can now be downloaded from the repository Jorum. The author, Marion Kelt, says “SMIRK can be edited on a standard web editing package, we used Dreamweaver” and is happy to answer questions. The information literacy blogspot has the details.
(11 February 2015) A series of seminars will bring together stakeholders from various academic and research institutions in Myanmar to discuss and lay strategies for implementing open access to research outputs. As part of the EIFL eLibrary Myanmar project, EIFL, University of Mandalay, University of Yangon and Yadanabon University will host a series of seminars “Open…
(11 February 2015) An introductory session and workshop at the University of Yangon on why establishing a library consortium will benefit institutions in Myanmar will take place on 24 and 25 of February, bringing together key stakeholders from universities as well as senior librarians from the current eLibrary Myanmar project partner institutions (University of Yangon, University…
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