(2 August 2013) The BBC reports that U.S. regulators have called for Apple to be forced to cancel certain eBook contracts with major publishers. They added Apple should be hit with a five-year ban on entering distribution contracts deemed anti-competitive. Read the story here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23545157
(3 August 2013) The National Library of Thailand and Thai Library Association will host the 16th Congress of Southeast Asian Librarians (CONSAL XVI) Meeting and General Conference in Bangkok, Thailand under the theme of “ASEAN Aspirations : Libraries for Sustainable Advancement” in 2015. Dates are 11-13 June 2015. Those of you with a long memory…
(Washington, D.C., 31 July 2013) The U.S. Department of Commerce today released a green paper on Copyright Policy, Creativity, and Innovation in the Digital Economy (Green Paper) to advance discussion on a set of policy issues critical to economic growth. The Green Paper discusses the goals of maintaining an appropriate balance between rights and exceptions…
(2 August 2013) The Academic Senate of the University of California has passed an Open Access Policy, ensuring that future research articles authored by faculty at all 10 campuses of UC will be made available to the public at no charge. “The Academic Council’s adoption of this policy on July 24, 2013, came after a…
(1 August 2013) Lecturers, learners and researchers across the UK now have access to over 14,000 additional full text eBooks and thousands of pages of primary source material on their tablets and mobile devices thanks to a new partnership agreement between Jisc Collections and BiblioLabs. The partnership, which is rooted in pushing forward the Digital…
(1 August 2013) IFLA has announced the August 2013 issue of International Preservation News. The issue theme is From Traditional to Digital Written Heritage: An Asian Perspective. Articles include an overview of preservation in the region; manuscripts in India; preservation in Central Asia; and treatment of tsunami ravaged documents. See the complete table of contents…
(New York / Heidelberg, 31 July 2013) Springer has released an Android version of its SpringerLink mobile application, allowing for wider access to its content. The app’s user interface has also been improved, making navigation easier and faster. In January 2012 Springer released its first version of the app on Apple iTunes, which gave scientists, researchers and…
(Columbus, Ohio, 31 July 2013) Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), the world’s authority for chemical information, announced today that the 2013 Inventory of Existing Chemical Substances in China (IECSC) has been added to its database containing international regulatory information for chemical substances, CHEMLIST®. This information is available on STN®, the choice of patent experts, in SciFinder®,…
Do you wear spectacles and knit your own cardigans? Are books your most favourite thing in the entire world? Do you shush noisy patrons? If you’ve answered yes, meet your doppelganger, the Lego Librarian. If you take her home, don’t forget the lego bricks, after all she’ll need a designer library to shelter in. And…
What makes a library beautiful? Its architecture? Age? Frescoes? Marble floors and coffered ceilings? Manicured gardens? The place where you met your spouse? Jill Harness has rounded up scores of buildings for her personal beautiful libraries list. Sixteen of them are in the Asia-Pacific region. See them here: http://mentalfloss.com/article/51788/62-worlds-most-beautiful-libraries
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