By Curtis Kendrick and Irene Gashurov Published on Monday, 4 November 2013 in EducauseReviewOnline Summary: MOOCs give librarians new opportunities to help shape the conversation about changes in higher education and to guide administrators, faculty, and students through these changes. To assume this role, librarians must understand the MOOCs landscape. Numerous stakeholders will have an…
(6 November 2013) This series of Collection Management modules aims to equip library and information management staff with a comprehensive knowledge of collection management and collection development principles and practices, from the beginning to the end of the entire process. The course is intended to be thought provoking as well as informative. Each module will…
If you’re passing through Hong Kong, libraries and artists have got together to offer courses and exhibitions open to the public. CityU library has a Chinese calligraphy course for beginners during November 2013. Read about it here. Lingnan University has an exhibition of paintings by Anna Glynn, Artist in Residence from Australia. Her paintings can…
(Chicago, 5 November 2013) — ALA TechSource has announced the premiere issue of eContent Quarterly, a new digital journal offering practical, user-driven solutions and ideas for curating, developing, integrating and managing content in rapidly changing digital library environments. Subscriptions are available for purchase at the ALA Store. Among the topics covered in Volume 1, Issue…
(4 November 2013) Springer and the Qatar National Library (QNL) have signed a groundbreaking agreement for access to eBooks and electronic journals on Springer’s platform SpringerLink. The national license entitles Qatar to use one of the largest scientific, technical and medical eBook collections in the world. Dr. Claudia Lux, Project Director of Qatar National Library,…
(4 November 2013) The Education Bureau has received 57 applications for the development of eTextbooks under its eTextbook market development scheme’s second phase. Twenty applications cover mathematics, eight English language, and five Chinese language. Application results are expected to be available in late December 2013. The remaining 24 applications cover computer literacy, Putonghua, science, history, geography,…
(4 November 2013) The Academic Senate of the University of California adopted an Open Access Policy on 24 July 2013, ensuring that future scholarly articles authored by faculty at all 10 UC campuses will be made available to the public at no charge. The Open Access Policy Implementation team at the California Digital Library is…
(New York, 24 October 2013) Lawyers Collective and the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University in Washington DC have launched the Global Health and Human Rights Database (http://www.globalhealthrights.org/). It is a fully searchable online database of more than 1,000 judgments, constitutions and international instruments on the intersection between health and…
(2 November 2013) The Southeast Asia Library Group, SEALG, reports that The British Library’s Endangered Archives Programme has awarded a grant to the Northern Illinois University, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, for a pilot project dedicated to the preservation of Cham manuscripts. The Cham are an important ethnic minority in Vietnam. Descendants of the Champa…
(1 November 2013) What does the Menzies Library, a ghost buster, the Loch Ness monster, and a penguin onesie have in common? Nothing! But yesterday afternoon, each of these came together for the inaugural ANU Library Halloween party. Witches, ghouls, and Harry Potter greeted over 30 postgraduate and research students in the Menzies foyer, before…
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