2015 PRRLA Meeting announced
(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/
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PRDLA is now PRRLA
(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…
Altmetrics, bibliometrics, research impact focus of new ACRL publication
(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…
40,000 historical images of New Zealand’s Antarctic history preserved
(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…
The Union Catalog of Modern Japanese Music Printed Before 1945 available
(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…
Getty Union List of Artist Names (ULAN) released as linked open data
(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…
READ Nepal Earthquake Fund accepting donations
(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…
University of Toronto hiring Public Service Librarian
(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…
Turnitin announces availability of Turnitin Scoring Engine for automated writing assessment
(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…
Join the Artstor Digital Library Advisory Group
(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…
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