On 7 March, a new collection, “Materials on the Allied Occupation of Japan”, was added to the NDL Digitized Contents. This collection contains 17,000 items from the Records of the United States Strategic Bombing Survey (USSBS), and 700 items from the Records of Far East Command, Supreme Commander Allied Powers, and United Nations Command,1945-1960. USSBS…
A report to ACRL’s Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education Task Force (21 March 2013 IATUL News Alert) Find out about recent developments in Information Literacy Models in the UK in this brand new report by Justine Martin, Minnesota State University. It highlights and compares the work of four groups in the UK to…
(19 March 2013) The 9th AUNILO Committee Meeting will be held from 10 to 12 June 2013 in Kuala Lumpur with the theme Engaging Users: Initiatives For A Changing Era. The venue for the event is the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur. The agenda is here: http://aunilosec.org/committee-meetings/9th-meeting-malaysia-2013/
(19 March 2013) Today the US Supreme Court announced its much-anticipated decision in Kirtsaeng v. Wiley, a lawsuit regarding the bedrock principle of the “first sale doctrine.” The 6-3 opinion is a total victory for libraries and our users. It vindicates the foundational principle of the first sale doctrine—if you bought it, you own it.…
Comprehensive eLearning site for video training, digital books and interactive course content (19 March 2013) Digital Classroom provides online video training, eBooks and tutorials covering the latest software apps, operating systems, web design and development and graphic design techniques straight from the experts John Wiley and Sons, Inc., in partnership with the American Graphics Institute,…
(19 March 2013) Australia has a good track record in relation to open access, from hosting one of the first country-wide thesis repositories in the world to supporting the development and management of institutional repositories. While initially much of this work was pioneered by the university libraries, the Australian Government has made significant commitments more…
(New York, NY 18 March 2013) – Wolters Kluwer Health and Amirsys, Inc., a leader in healthcare information solutions in radiology, pathology, and anatomy, are offering the Amirsys Imaging Reference Center and nearly 60 Amirsys eBooks via the OvidSP medical research platform. The Amirsys Imaging Reference Center blends thousands of high-quality, representative images and relevant…
(New York / Heidelberg, 18 March 2013) The 20th anniversary of the first World Water Day is March 22nd. The United Nations has specifically highlighted the importance of this vital resource by declaring 2013 the International Year of Water Cooperation. Springer is underscoring this initiative by launching a new, interdisciplinary platform on water at springer.com/aboutwater.…
Jeff O’Neal editor of Book Riot is surprised to find that some of the best and most influential novels of the 20th century haven’t made it to digital. Of Book Riot Readers’ Favorite 50 novels, 13 percent of the non-public domain novels are still print-only (5 of 38), including… Click here to see the list…
With release of XBlock source code, global community invited to participate in the development of the edX learning platform and the next generation of online and blended courses (Cambridge, MA and Santa Clara, CA (PyCon 2013) 14 March 2013) – EdX, the not-for-profit online learning enterprise founded by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of…
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