Google to launch Play textbooks in August
Techcrunch is reporting that Google is bringing textbooks to the Google Play store for purchase or rent in August. Read the story by Frederic Lardinois here. .
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Library Publishing Coalition debuts new website
(24 July 2013) The Library Publishing Coalition (LPC)—a library led, two-year initiative to advance the field of library publishing—has launched its new website at http://www.librarypublishing.org/. Current LPC activities include development of a Shared Documentation Portal that hosts model documents, compilation of a Directory of Library Publishing Services, and planning for a forum to be held…
Multimedia enhancement to the OvidSP medical research platform
(New York, NY, 24 July 2013) Wolters Kluwer Health has a multimedia enhancement to the OvidSP medical research platform to aid in clinical research, practice and learning. Now researchers and healthcare practitioners using Ovid will have improved functionality to discover, download and export more than two million assets, including video and images integrated with searching…
National Central Library wins second place in Government Digital Service Ability Survey
發布日期：2013-6-28 發布單位：國際合作組 (28 June 2013) In Business Next’s 2013 Enterprise Survey of Digital Service Standards, the National Central Library was the only library in Taiwan recognized. Results from the online voting and selection showed NCL was rated 2nd in the government digital service website category. NCL’s websites “are designed to serve the public by…
Photographing the World at Barr Smith Library
In conjunction with Ben McGee’s photographic exhibition: “Brazil: Joining Fragments”, the Barr Smith Library of Adelaide University presents a selection of photographs from its own Rare Books and Special Collections, 25 July to 22 September 2013. Encompassing the work of eminent Australian and international photographers, this display explores the relationship between image-maker and subject, between…
CDNLAO Newsletter published
The National Diet Library has published issue 77 of the CDNLAO Newsletter (ISSN: 1344-722X) of the Conference of Directors of National Libraries in Asia and Oceania. The special topic is Reading Promotion and includes news from Brunei, China, South Korea and Singapore. Also announced in the newsletter is that during the IFLA WLIC 79th General…
UNESCO announces Incheon (Republic of Korea) as World Book Capital 2015
(24 July 2013) Yesterday, UNESCO announced that the city of Incheon (Republic of Korea) is named World Book Capital for the year 2015. The Selection Committee, which met on 16 July at the UNESCO Headquarters, selected the city of Incheon due to the quality of its programme and the impact it will have on improving the promotion of books and…
Ex Libris Alma promotes success at RMIT University
(Adelaide, Australia 23 July 2013) Ex Libris Group®, a world leader in the provision of library automation solutions, has announced that RMIT University is in production with the Alma library management service from Ex Libris. In tandem with Ex Libris Primo®, which RMIT implemented in 2012, Alma has replaced multiple systems, including the Library’s Voyager…
Goldman, Temasek said to invest in Shanda’s Cloudary
(8 July 2013) Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) and Temasek Holdings Pte agreed to buy a minority stake in China’s Cloudary Corp. (READ) at a 25 percent lower valuation than in a previous funding round, said two people with knowledge of the matter. The story is reported by Bloomberg, here.
Springer signs agreement with Bookshare
Deal makes content available globally to people with print disabilities (Berlin / New York, 15 July 2013) Springer has signed an agreement to provide Bookshare, an international leader in providing people with visual impairments, physical disabilities and/or learning disabilities access to copyrighted digital accessible books, with world rights to its titles. Springer is home to the world’s…
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