The Digital Preservation Coalition is offering three fully funded scholarships to attend the ‘How to Set Up and Run a Data Service: the Challenges of Social Science Data’ at the UK Data Archive, University of Essex, Colchester, 28th – 29th November 2013. ‘How to Set up and run a Data Service: the Challenges of Social…
(6 August 2013, New Providence, NJ) In the year following the exit of Borders from the book retail scene, online retailers — led by Amazon — earned 44 percent of Americans’ book dollars, up from 39 percent in 2011. The insights into where book buyers are spending come from the 2013 U.S. Book Consumer Demographics and…
(Chicago, 6 August 2013) New digital technologies, the internet and user expectations have changed the role of the catalogue in libraries. Catalogue 2.0: The Future of the Library Catalogue, edited by Sally Chambers, takes into account developments that influence catalogue potential and patrons’ needs, such as competition from popular websites like Facebook, Twitter, and Wikipedia,…
Raising awareness of how the library supports teaching and research staff is key to demonstrating library value in developing countries, concludes a new report published recently. The findings are the result of a six month research study with twelve developing country institutions conducted by SAGE exploring perceptions of the value of academic libraries by teaching…
(2 August 2013) The Education Bureau today launched the second phase of the eTextbook Market Development Scheme. The second phase has taken the recommendations of the Steering Committee on Selection, Quality Assurance & Review of e-Textbook Market Development Scheme and the positive feedback received from stakeholders. The phase will cover more subjects, especially science, Chinese…
(4 August 2013) There’s not a lot of it left. So if just for the sake of nostalgia and the delight of social historians, news that the Government Records Service is preserving more than 8,000 pictures of old Hong Kong, some of which have already been uploaded to its website, will be thrilling. The collection…
(2 August 2013) The BBC reports that U.S. regulators have called for Apple to be forced to cancel certain eBook contracts with major publishers. They added Apple should be hit with a five-year ban on entering distribution contracts deemed anti-competitive. Read the story here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23545157
(3 August 2013) The National Library of Thailand and Thai Library Association will host the 16th Congress of Southeast Asian Librarians (CONSAL XVI) Meeting and General Conference in Bangkok, Thailand under the theme of “ASEAN Aspirations : Libraries for Sustainable Advancement” in 2015. Dates are 11-13 June 2015. Those of you with a long memory…
(Washington, D.C., 31 July 2013) The U.S. Department of Commerce today released a green paper on Copyright Policy, Creativity, and Innovation in the Digital Economy (Green Paper) to advance discussion on a set of policy issues critical to economic growth. The Green Paper discusses the goals of maintaining an appropriate balance between rights and exceptions…
(2 August 2013) The Academic Senate of the University of California has passed an Open Access Policy, ensuring that future research articles authored by faculty at all 10 campuses of UC will be made available to the public at no charge. “The Academic Council’s adoption of this policy on July 24, 2013, came after a…
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