(19 August 2014, Dublin, Ohio) OCLC, along with the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), has named five librarians from Pakistan, Philippines, Serbia, Swaziland and Zimbabwe selected to participate in the Jay Jordan IFLA/OCLC Early Career Development Fellowship Program for 2015. The program supports library and information science professionals from countries with developing…
(18 August 2014) Nature has released the results of a survey of over 3,500 researchers on their use of social networks for collaboration. The results are broken down by research area, and explore the frequency and depth of use by researchers. The full, open access article is available online. The announcement is here.
(18 August 2014) Students have rated Oxford’s libraries as some of the best in the UK for the second year running. The results of the 2014 National Student Survey (NSS) show that 98% of students at the University of Oxford felt the libraries met their needs. Oxford’s libraries have consistently been at or near the top…
(15 August 2014, Canberra) The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA), Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) and Public Library Services South Australia (PLS SA) are working together on a proof of concept trial for a ‘buy it now’ button. The aim is to help library users to purchase books via the library catalogue, benefitting local bookshops…
(15 August 2015) Legal deposit schemes, which require publishers to submit copies of books and journals to a national library, is considered a vital part in preserving a country’s cultural heritage. While national approaches to legal deposit developed over centuries, the digital age has meant that countries suddenly need to adapt legal deposit schemes so that they work…
(14 Ogos 2014, Kuala Lumpur) Perpustakaan eBook Dunia, yang mempunyai koleksi kira-kira tiga juta buku dalam 200 bahasa boleh diakses melalui Internet. Eksekutif Pemasaran Access Dunia Sdn. Bhd., Bismayazan Abu Bakar Shedek berkata, koleksi perpustakaan ebook mengandungi beratus-ratus ebook dan eDokumen. Utusan Online has the story.
(14 August 2014) Sydney University library staff have been told they will be made redundant by the new system that will focus on a digital platform as well as the extension of opening hours. The planned cuts will affect 156 staff in total. Altmedia.net has the story.
(13 August 2014) Europeana.eu has added a new feature to the portal to help you find content across languages. The feature allows you to translate the keyword you search with into 6 languages and then the search is made with all of them. Let’s say you’ve defined English, French, Dutch, Polish, German and Swedish as…
(13 August 2014) Artstor and the J. Paul Getty Museum have released more than 5,000 images from the museum’s Open Content Program in the Digital Library. The Getty’s Open Content Program makes available digital images to which the Getty holds the rights or that are in the public domain. Among the images now available in…
(11 August 2014) The South China Morning Post reports on the growing space crunch in Hong Kong’s university libraries and what one librarian is doing about it. The story by Linda Yeung is here.
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