The fourth annual Library 2.014 Worldwide Virtual Conference will be held 8-9 October 2014. The conference is online, in multiple time zones over the course of two days, in multiple languages and free to attend. Everyone is invited to participate in this forum designed to foster collaboration and knowledge sharing among information professionals worldwide. The call…
(11 April 2014, Ann Arbor, Mich.) ProQuest and J.P. Morgan have joined forces to help business students and faculty make use of J.P. Morgan’s company and economic research. The companies have created J.P. Morgan Research, which contains intelligence and insight on more than 3,000 corporations worldwide and all major economies. The new research solution provides…
(10 April 2014, Farmington Hills, Mich.,/PRNewswire) Gale, part of Cengage Learning and a leading publisher of research and education resources for libraries, schools and businesses, today announced the launch of Analytics On Demand, an innovative data analysis tool to help libraries discover key insights about their library community—who is and isn’t using their resources—to better…
(10 April 2014, Seattle, Business Wire) Amazon.com today announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire comiXology, the company that revolutionized the digital comics reading experience with their immersive Guided View technology and makes discovering, buying, and reading comic books and graphic novels easier and more fun than ever before. “ComiXology’s mission is to…
(9 April 2014) Many libraries and consortia are regularly involved in marketing and promoting their eResources. This might include web pages, posters and displays. The Electronic Resource Promotion Competition enables these achievements to be shared and celebrated. This competition by INASP invites librarians and consortia to outline their marketing and promotion plans for the year…
(8 April 2014) You are cordially invited to visit the Exhibition of the “Deacons Archives” which will be held at Special Collections, 1/F Main Library, The University of Hong Kong, from 4th – 28th April 2014. The Deacons Archives contains the bulk of the early surviving records of Deacons and its predecessors, including client deeds…
(2 April 2014) Google has made more than 100 of Angkor Wat’s historic sites available online with Street View on Google Maps. More than 90,000 panoramic images provide unique views of the exteriors and interiors of Angkor’s ancient temples including the Bayon. The announcement with links is here.
(4 April 2014) ACRL’s Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education Task Force has released the second part of their initial draft of the association’s Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. The Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education, adopted by ACRL in 2000, have become an essential document related to the emergence of…
(4 April 2014) CAUL’s annual review covers committees, the work of CAUL during 2013, collaborations with ALIA, the Australian Society of Authors and others, policy, fellowships, planning and hot topics. The review is here. A list of publishers and suppliers to CAUL and its members with links direct to the publishers’ websites are here.
On 22-23 March 2014, The Cambodian Librarians and Documentalists Association (CLDA) conducted the first-ever workshop in Cambodia on information literacy for academic library staff. The trainers were Mr. Greg Bem, a student intern of the iSchool at University of Washington, and Ms. Kolap Mao, Library Director of Pannasastra University of Cambodia. Read about it here.
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