Call for papers for International Symposium on Library Services for Children and Young Adults
(24 January 2014) The symposium takes place 19-20 June in South Korea. Details here:
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A LibraryBox for your library. Share content without the internet
LibraryBox is an inexpensive portable private digital distribution device that can deliver non-DRM digital files to any device with wifi and a browser, even in areas without internet access. After more than 2 years of development and a wildly successful Kickstarter campaign, libraries and other organisations finally have the opportunity to purchase a LibraryBox at…
Metadata Games crowdsources data collection through gaming
(24 January 2014) ARL has reported that on 22 January, Tiltfactor Laboratory at Dartmouth College launched Metadata Games, a digital gaming platform for gathering data on photo, audio, and moving image artifacts. The platform encourages players to explore humanities content while contributing to vital records. Metadata Games enables archivists, librarians, data scientists, and others to…
New issue of SEALG Newsletter online
(23 January 2014) The latest issue of the SEALG Newsletter from the Southeast Asia Library Group is now online on the SEALG homepage. Contents of the SEALG Newsletter 2013: ● SEALG Annual Meeting 2013 Report (Jana Igunma) ● Identifying and collecting primary sources of information in the archives and libraries in England, New Zealand, United…
Japan’s growing open data movement
(15 January 2014) Open data has become one of the central topics of IT policy in Japan. Since the adoption of the e-government Open Data Strategy in July 2012, national and local governments have made great steps forward in this area and the government launched an open data portal in December 2013: “Data.go.jp”, in beta…
Libraries launch eBook lending in the Netherlands
(The Hague, 21 January 2014) – A large scale eBook lending service for library members will be launched today in the Netherlands through http://www.bibliotheek.nl/. This new service from the libraries will allow members to read eBooks without restriction so that more than one person can read the same eBook at the same time. In most…
Reflections from the launch of the LERU Roadmap for Research Data
(23 January 2014) Developed with the aim of helping to plot a path for all European universities who wish to make their data open and available for reuse, the Roadmap makes a series of recommendations targeted at institutional leadership, support services and European policy makers. Read the complete article by Susan Reilly who represents LIBER,…
Finding Australian theses
(23 January 2014) The Australasian Digital Theses Program database ceased operation in March 2011. The database server has been decomissioned, and the content of that database is searchable via the National Library of Australia’s Trove service. The National Library of Australia’s Trove is a free repository of Australian material, including almost a million Australian theses. Full…
ebrary’s Academic Complete™ tops 100,000 titles
(Palo Alto, CA, 22 January 2014) Academic Complete™, the flagship eBook collection from ProQuest’s eBook platform, ebrary, has added 20,000 titles to its selection of in-demand scholarly academic monographs. The additional titles come from renowned publishers such as Ashgate, Edinburgh University Press, Harvard University Press, Peter Lang, MIT Press, and Wiley. Academic Complete now offers a…
Monash first in the world to acquire a new brand Top-Level Domain
(20 January 2014) Monash University today became the first globally recognised organisation to be delegated a brand Top-Level Domain (TLD) by the internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the Internet’s global governing body. The New TLD Program has been developed by ICANN to provide competition and choice to current Top-Level Domains such as…
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