(Las Vegas, July 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/) — Blackboard Inc. today announced a free, flexible option for running massive open online courses (MOOCs): a hosted instance of Blackboard Learn™, the company’s flagship learning management system (LMS). With more institutions looking to offer large, open courses, the offer will give institutions a fully functional, flexible platform option complete…
Two Shanghai universities have teamed up with Coursera, a United States-based website that offers open, online and free courses for learners from all walks of life. The local varsities were following in the footsteps of world-class universities such as Yale University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University in the US. ShanghaiDaily.com has the story.…
(9 July 2013, Chicago) – ALA Editions announces a new session of the popular facilitated eCourse Demystifying Copyright: How to Educate Your Staff and Community. Lesley Ellen Harris, a copyright, licensing and digital property lawyer who works with the information industry, will serve as instructor for this four week course, which begins on September 9,…
“A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.”– Shelby Foote With this quotation, Dr. Professor Peter Strohschneider, Chairman of the German Council of Science and Humanities, began his keynote speech at LIBER’s 42nd annual conference in Munich, Germany. “The library is a place in which learning and research happens, and in…
(8 July 2013) In 2012 LIANZA hosted a national series of workshops on Careers in Libraries presented by Lynley Stone of The Information Workshop. To gain a solid understanding how library careers evolve in our rapidly changing world, an online survey was conducted on behalf of LIANZA, with the preliminary results from the survey being…
The position is at Windsor Castle, home to 125,000 books, manuscripts and coins including the world’s largest collection of Leonardo da Vinci drawings. The successful candidate will have a strong scholarly background and will be responsible for all matters relating to care and conservation of the collections. The position is advertised on the British Monarchy…
(4 July 2013) In September 2012 UNESCO organised a major conference in Vancouver, Canada. The Memory of the World in the Digital age: Digitization and Preservation explored the key issues affecting the preservation and long-term accessibility of digital documentary heritage and three months after its conclusion UNESCO issued the Vancouver Declaration. IFLA, together with UNESCO, the International Council on Archives…
The Pacific Rim Digital Library Alliance 2013 annual meeting will be held at the University of British Columbia Library in Vancouver, Canada, from 2-4 October. The theme of this year’s meeting is Community and Collaboration – the Digital Pacific. Read the announcement here: http://prdla.org/2013/07/2013-prdla-annual-meeting-announcment/ Call for papers: http://prdla.org/2013/07/call-for-papers-for-the-2013-prdla-meeting/ Registration is now open for the PRDLA…
(4 July 2013) A special award was presented at the 53rd AGM of the Sri Lanka Library Association, SLLA, to the National Institute of Library and Information Science (NILIS) in recognition of its outstanding contribution towards LIS education in Sri Lanka. NILIS has provided wider opportunities to the library and information community for higher education…
(4 July 2013) 10th Annual Conference on Library & Information Science (NACLIS) organised by SLLA was held on 27th June 2013 at Sri Sambuddhaloka Jayanthi Mandiraya at Colombo under the theme, New Technology, New Trends, New Ideas; Modifying the Library with the User in Mind. NACLIS is the event in the LIS field to share…
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