(London/Singapore, 19 August 2013) At the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) 2013 meeting, Roly Keating the British Library’s Chief Executive signed an agreement with Mrs Elaine Ng the Chief Executive Officer of the National Library Board (NLB) of Singapore to put an extensive range of materials of interest to Singapore online. The project will…
(15 August 2013) Springer is now owned by BC Partners. Competition authorities in the US and in Europe have approved the transaction and all other preconditions have been met. Read the announcement here.
Tender for: Cloud Storage Specification Developer Sponsor: The National Archives Closing Date: 1200 on 23rd August 2013 The National Archives is the UK government’s official archive, containing almost 1,000 years of history, with records ranging from parchment and paper scrolls through to digital files and archived websites. The National Archives seeks to engage a Cloud…
(13 August 2013) Futuregov reports that India has inaugurated its Data Portal India, a portal for the public to access and use datasets and applications provided by ministries and departments of the Government of India. The Portal functions as a single access point for open government datasets across the country. Currently, there are about 3,500…
Do you need to write a business case for a digital preservation initiative? A new toolkit may help. It provides a step-by-step guide to the writing process, including templates, case studies and other resources. The Digital Preservation Business Case Toolkit is freely available online. It was created by the Jisc funded SPRUCE project, with collaboration…
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL), the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), and the Association of European Research Libraries (LIBER) have announced a Joint Task Force on Librarians’ Competencies in Support of E-Research and Scholarly Communication. Rapid changes in technology and associated shifts in research and scholarly…
(12 August 2013) The Getty has announced the Open Content Program to share, freely and without restriction, as many of the Getty’s digital resources as possible. The initial focus of the Open Content Program is to make available all images of public domain artworks in the Getty’s collections. Some 4,600 high-resolution images of the Museum’s…
(13 August 2013) Join the Library History SIG at IFLA WLIC 2013 for papers and discussion of the development of libraries and librarianship in Asia, 21 August 2013, 09:30 – 11:30 am. The list of papers is here.
An IFLA Public Talk by by Dr. Ismail Serageldin, Director of the Library of Alexandria, Vice President of the Institut d’Egypte (Egyptian Academy of Science). The Great Library of Alexandria was the most famous library in Classical Antiquity, flourishing as a major hub of scholarship in the Ptolemaic Dynasty. Rooted in a similar tradition, the…
By K.T. Lam (* First published in ACCESS: Asia’s Newspaper on Electronic Information Products & Services, No.82, September 2012) The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has recently launched the Scholarly Publications Portal (http://spfind.ust.hk), providing a one-stop platform for researchers and information seekers to discover the wealth of research output produced by HKUST researchers.…
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