(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.
(4 April 2014) Nature Partner Journals is a new series of online open access journals, published in collaboration with world-renowned international partners. Partners currently include the Singapore Centre on Environmental Life Science Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, and the International Primary Care Respiratory Group. The announcement is here.
(1 April 2014) The BBC reports that universities in Myanmar have been given eLibraries with hundreds of thousands of digital books and academic journals to help them catch up after decades of isolation under military rule. The University of Yangon and University of Mandalay libraries are offering these collections, which represent another sign of how…
(2 April 2014) ALIA reports that a study released today suggests law firms, government departments, associations and other organisations involved with special libraries gain over AUD5 in return for every AUD1 they invest in special libraries. The Australian Law Library Association, Health Libraries Inc (HLInc), Health Libraries Australia (ALIA HLA, a national group of the…
(2 April 2014) INELI-Oceania is a new and innovative leadership development program for emerging library leaders from Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific. The program is primarily funded through a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Participants of INELI-Oceania will be brought together in a program designed to develop their effectiveness as…
(1 April 2014) Advertisements and advertising materials are the focus of the latest exhibition from the Monash University’s Rare Books Collection, which opened at the Matheson Library, Clayton last week. It provides a snapshot of years gone by through advertisements and endorsements. Walk in to see the exhibition before 5 June 2014. If you prefer…
(29 March 2014) Jisc today welcomed the announcement by Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), the Scottish Funding Council, the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales and the Department for Employment and Learning that from 2016 they will expect all articles submitted to the Research Excellence Framework (REF), a system for assessing the quality of research, to be…
(1 April 2014) The Data Citation Principles establish guiding principles for data within scholarly literature, another dataset, or any other research object. These principles recognize the need for citation practices that are both human understandable and machine-actionable. DataCite and its members understand that the eight principles are perfectly in line with the scope and the…
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