(3 December 2014) Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Libraries Consortium, Books for Asia (The Asia Foundation Mongolia) and Books for Mongolia (American Center for Mongolian Studies) will host a seminar “Open access: knowledge sharing and sustainable scholarly communication in Mongolia” on December 11, 2014. The objective of the seminar is to bring together stakeholders from…
(29 November 2014) As part of agreements to join ASEAN, the government has committed to improvements, but can it bring the National Library into the 21st century? Piles of books, donations in disorderly piles, lazy creaking ceiling fans… This once grand library which has received visitors since 1928 is ripe for a make-over. The Phnom…
(28 November 2014, Singapore) A new library focused on Continuing Education and Training (CET) – a collaboration between the Singapore Workforce Development Agency (WDA) and the National Library Board (NLB) – was launched today. The library which is open to the public is located at the Lifelong Learning Institute. The illustrated story by Robin Choo is…
(28 November 2014) The State Library of New South Wales has launched the Indigenous Languages website as part of its Rediscovering Indigenous Languages project. At the time of Australian settlement there were more than 250 known Indigenous languages across the country. Now only about 20 are spoken fluently. The project aims to preserve and revitalise…
(25 November 2014, Seoul, South Korea) The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters and the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), today announced an initiative to expand the global imprint of the region’s scientific research by integrating content within the Korean Citation Index (KCI) into the Web of ScienceTM. Launched by NRF in…
By Ruth A. Pagell* (26 November 2014) Which university is #1 in the world in 2014/2015? Massachusetts Institute of Technology? California Institute of Technology? Harvard University? Cambridge University? Princeton? In Asia? University of Tokyo? National University of Singapore? University of Hong Kong? 1 Read on and find out who the top universities are and why…
(25 November 2014) The ES Library is a recently remodeled, dynamic space. The resources, both online and in print, help students become information literate and strong users of credible resources are vast. The ALA joblist has further details.
(21 November 2014) Palgrave Macmillan is focusing on publishing more humanities and social science scholarship from Asia, especially China. New Perspectives on Chinese Politics and Society is the first Palgrave Macmillan series that has been commissioned from China and will be launched in 2015. The series will be edited by Yang Zhong, Changjiang Distinguished Professor…
(23 November 2014) The Institute is co-organized by the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and, the Division of Information and Technology Studies, Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong. Its focus is on data curation and related theories, techniques and best practices. HKUST hosts the Institute, 25-27 February…
(19 November 2014) The China Library is now open in the City Campus Library. The new China Library was gifted to UTS from the Chinese Government and is a rich information centre filled with books, audio visual materials, mulitmedia displays as well as reading and study areas. The illutsrated announcement is here.
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