(9 January 2013) The Wayback Machine, with much more data and some code improvements, now covers late 1996 to December 9, 2012 according to a recent blog posting by Brewster Kahle. Even more incredible is that the Wayback Machine has gone from having 150,000,000,000 URLs to having 240,000,000,000 URLs, a total of about 5 petabytes…
Hosted by the Joint University Librarians Advisory Committee (JULAC), the Association of College & Research Library (ACRL)’s Information Literacy Immersion Program will be held 3-7 June 2013 at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. The Program provides instruction librarians with the opportunity to work intensively on all aspects of information literacy. The Teacher…
The China Academic Library and Information System (CALIS) Management Center and the China International Talent Exchange Foundation jointly organized the 2012 National University Library Technology Development Seminar, 18-19 December 2012 at Peking University. Marshall Breeding and futurist Garry Golden gave keynote addresses. More than 200 people gathered to discuss new technology for libraries. CALIS Management…
The Hong Kong University Library and National Central Library, Taiwan, will co-host the 11th Annual Library Leadership Institute, 10-14 May 2013 in Taipei. The theme for this workshop is “Repositioning Libraries and Librarians for the Next Generation.” This residential Institute will provide library directors and senior librarians from the Asia region with the opportunity to…
(Singapore, 19 December 2012) For the first time, library goers will be involved in creating the new library experience at Singapore’s Orchard Road. The National Library Board (NLB) and Singapore Polytechnic (SP) are partnering to develop the new library@orchard with Design Thinking, a user-focused approach. The NLB-SP team has developed a range of prototypes on…
Enhanced options available for perpetual access to the McGraw-Hill eBook Library (New York, 10 January 2013 /PRNewswire) McGraw-Hill Professional today announced that it is offering an enhanced purchasing program for its popular McGraw-Hill eBook Library, a digital platform delivering unparalleled access to its premium content (MHeBookLibrary.com). This new purchasing alternative – perpetual access – is…
(Farmington Hills, Mich., 8 January 2013). Gale, part of Cengage Learning and a leading publisher of research and reference resources for libraries, schools and businesses, today announced the launch of National Geographic: People, Animals, and the World, a new multimedia resource in its National Geographic Virtual Library (NGVL) product line. This new resource joins National…
The University of Technology Sydney, has summarized the results of its library survey undertaken in September 2012. Results are based on more than 2,400 responses. If you think that books are so yesterday, the largest number of comments related to those 630,000 books on library shelves, increasing by 20,000 each year. Finding the books you…
The University of New England, Armidale, Australia, has published a library communications plan. Designed to advance communications between the library and its patrons, it does not replace face to face discourse and in fact emphasizes that it is the responsibility of all library staff to deliver clear, consistent messages to library stakeholders. A standardised terminology…
From 29 November 2012 to 27 January 2013 The University Libraries and The University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong, are delighted to jointly present an exhibition “Celebrating the Centenary: Gems of the University of Hong Kong Libraries” to commemorate the centenary of University Libraries and the eightieth anniversary of the establishment…
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