(17 June 2014) YouTube said on Tuesday that it plans to launch a paid streaming music service, in partnership with “hundreds of major and independent” music labels. A statement by the Google Inc. owned company confirmed long-running rumors that the world’s most popular online video website would offer a paid music service. The Chicago Tribune…
(17 June 2014) This new White Paper from SAGE, shows that the introduction of new technologies, the pervasive nature of free internet sources, and tightened budgets have caused librarians to conceive of and purchase reference differently. Reference service, whether it is provided at a service desk or via research consultations, remains necessary because patrons are…
(16 June 2014) Applications are invited for the appointment of a Research Librarian, Economics in the Li Ka Shing Library, Singapore Management University (SMU). This position serves as the liaison for faculty and students from the School of Economics and related programs. The position holder works in a team environment to create and develop innovative…
(16 June 2014) OASPA held its 1st Asian Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing in Bangkok, Thailand, 2-3 June 2014. Prompted by the rapid growth in OA across this region in recent years, this international conference brought together academic publishers, librarians and the research community to discuss open access publishing as a global industry with…
(16 June 2014, Mountain View, CA) ProQuest has added more than 1,650 eBook titles from renowned publishers Wiley and Wolters Kluwer Health to Academic Complete®, the flagship ebook database from ebrary®. The new content will improve research outcomes, while a new enhancement for the database – the popular LibraryThing for Libraries™ Book Display Widget –…
(16 June 2014) ALIA’s Australian Public Library Alliance (APLA) has released the report A comparison of ebooks and elending in Australian Public Libraries 2013 v 2014. The report compares an eBooks and eLending survey completed in January 2013 to the same survey completed in May 2014 and will be produced annually to show eBook and…
(June 2014) As dry as a bone. An apt description of annual reports from anywhere in the world. Also too many pages guaranteed to make one drowsy. But there’s always an exception to the rule. In this case Singapore Management University. SMU’s Li Ka Shing Library has published its 2013 annual report as a video and…
(15 June 2014) Hong Kong, Guangdong and Macau signed a tripartite cultural cooperation plan for 2014-18 at the 15th Greater Pearl River Delta Cultural Co-operation Meeting in Guangzhou today. The three jurisdictions agreed to further strengthen co-operation on public libraries, intangible cultural heritage, and connections between public cultural service mechanisms. Read the story here.
(13 June 2014) The British Library has reposted a detailed description of the Text to Image Linking Tool (TILT) one of the winners for the British Library Labs competition 2014. It has been reposted on the Digital Scholarship blog on behalf of Desmond Schmidt and Anna Gerber, University of Queensland. TILT is a tool for linking areas on…
(12 June 2014) Singapore is revamping its libraries to become digital hubs that help achieve broader economic and societal goals. The city state recently announced the launch of three Smart Work Centres, where people can book pay-per-use workspaces, complete with meeting rooms, video-conferencing facilities, internet access and photocopiers. Read the Asia Pacific FutureGov story by Joshua Chambers…
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