Flinders hiring University Librarian
(16 July 2014) Australia’s Flinders University is advertising for a University Librarian. The closing date is 8 August 2014. For full details visit the university website.
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Coalition opposes copyright term extension in Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement
(11 July 2014) On 9 July 2014, ARL joined 34 other organizations in sending a letter to ministers of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiating parties, expressing opposition to the copyright term of life plus 70 years proposed by the United States. These organizations—representing libraries, archives, authors, educators, students, digital rights advocacy groups, and technological innovators—note…
The Survey of Academic Libraries, 2014-15 edition
(7 July 2014) Primary Research Group has published The Survey of Academic Libraries, 2014-15 Edition, ISBN 978-1-57440-293-3. The study looks at trends in staffing, salaries, budgets, materials purchasing, technology use and more in U.S. academic libraries. More here.
Gates Foundation discontinues ATLA
(14 July 2014) After 15 years, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has decided to discontinue the Access to Learning Award. While the foundation is extremely proud of the ATLA recipients and the creative ways they have increased and expanded public access to technology to help people improve their lives, the decision was made after…
The International Librarians Network: new round begins September 2014
(14 July 2014) Want to build your professional network and learn about librarianship around the world? The International Librarians Network (ILN) is for you. The ILN peer mentoring program is a facilitated program aimed at helping librarians develop international networks. ILN is pleased to announce the next round of this popular program will commence in September…
Penguin couple banned in Singapore
(16 July 2014) Singapore’s National Library Board, NLB, has removed three books for children for not being ‘pro family’. Between them, the three titles – And Tango Makes Three, The White Swan Express and Who’s In My Family? feature two male penguins who hatch a penguin chick, and human would-be parents including a same sex couple…
Education minister resigns over research fraud scandal
(14 July 2014) Taiwan’s Education Minister Chiang Wei-ling resigned on Monday 14 July over his links to a researcher whose papers were retracted from an international scientific journal because of alleged fraud. SAGE, the British publisher of the Journal of Vibration and Control or JVC, where the papers appeared, announced on 8 July that it…
Libraries and archives leave international copyright discussions empty handed
(14 July 2014) Discussions regarding an international copyright instrument for libraries and archives again collapsed inconclusively at the 28th meeting of the Standing Committee on Copyright & Related Rights (SCCR) in Geneva, from Monday 30 June – Friday 4 July, reports IFLA. In the early hours of Saturday 5 July, Member States finally “agreed to disagree”…
EIFL eLibrary Myanmar project records progress
(12 July 2014) The EIFL eLibrary Myanmar project started in December 2013 continues to progress. Students and faculty at Yangon University and Mandalay University now have unrestricted access to an online library of over 10,000 high-quality international journals and over 130,000 academic eBooks. The training of librarians, faculty and students has also started with over…
OCLC hiring Editor, Washington, D.C.
(11 July 2014) The Associate Editor will be responsible for developing and updating the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) within the framework of the editorial plan and in response to current and future needs of the worldwide Dewey user community – 200,000 libraries in 135 countries plus emerging uses inside and outside of libraries. Slisjobs has…
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