(10 Mar 2014) The 2014 General Assembly and Annual Conference will be held in Tokyo at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation on 18-21 October, and will be hosted by JST, the Japan Science and Technology Agency. The National Diet Library, National Institute of Informatics, and National Association of Information Professionals are developing…
On12 March 2014 approximately 14,000 items were added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections. About 2,200 items from the Records of the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey (USSBS) (available in “Materials on the Allied Occupation of Japan“) About 600 items from the Records of General Headquarters, Far East Command (available in “Materials on the Allied…
(11 March 2014) The Buddhist archive of photography, Luang Prabang, Laos, is the largest online photobase documenting the recent history of Buddhism in Laos, reports the SEALG website. The digitisation of the original photographs found in Luang Prabang was supported by the British Library’s Endangered Archives Programme. Coming from more than 20 distinct monastery collections,…
(7 March 2014) Beginning in 2011, the National Central Library reports annually on “Taiwanese Reading Tastes.” This year (2014), another survey was conducted, the results of which were announced at a press conference held by the Ministry of Education on 7 March 2014. NCL’s Director-general Tseng shared her analysis of the survey, which showed the…
(10 March 2014, Tokyo, Japan) Sony Corporation and Panasonic Corporation today announced that they have formulated “Archival Disc”, a new standard for professional-use, next-generation optical discs, with the objective of expanding the market for long-term digital data storage. Both Sony and Panasonic aim to launch systems with a recording capacity of 300 GB per disc…
(11 March 2014, Washington, D.C.) Asked to predict how technology will change over the next decade, hundreds of experts agree that trends now underway will make the internet more important even as it becomes less visible in daily life. They believe it will become more “like electricity” and produce vastly greater human and machine connectivity…
(10 March 2014) DataCite is working on the creation of a new website. Firms and professionals are invited to submit a proposal. You will find all the details in this document. Read the announcement here.
In Asia Pacific and a little further afield ALIA, Australia https://www.alia.org.au/jobs Australia, New Zealand, Canada, China… Public Libraries Australia http://www.pla.org.au/Services/Job_Vacancies School Library Association of Victoria, Australia http://www.slav.schools.net.au/slav.html Bangladesh Association of Libraries, Information Scientists & Documentalists, BALID http://www.balid.org/ New York University, Shanghai, China http://shanghai.nyu.edu/about/work/staff-positions Hong Kong Library Association http://www.hkla.org/content/blogcategory/22/48/lang,english/ Hong Kong, Singapore… Indeed. Jobs in Hong…
(10 March 2014) Innovative, a leading provider of library services platforms, and Bibliotheca, a leader in RFID and bar-code based technology solutions, announced today that they have entered into a strategic alliance that will enhance integration of the companies’ products to create value-added offerings to library customers worldwide. Under the terms of the agreement Innovative…
(10 March 2014) As part of the various programs in celebration of the Public Library Day which will lead to the grand celebration during the 1st International Conference of Public Librarians in Cebu City on 19-21 March, the National Library of the Philippines (NLP) in cooperation with Redfox Technologies Philippines, Inc. and the Rotary Club…
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