It’s called Chronicling America, a website from the Library of Congress providing digitized searchable facsimiles of historic American newspapers. But it’s also a great source of historic news and reporting on Asia. Having recently passed the 8 million pages landmark, these antique newspapers covering the period 1836-1922, are full of news about Asia, perhaps more then…
By Ruth A. Pagell1 (8 August 2014) We ended the first article by presenting a series of different rankings which we did not explain. Before we drill down into them, it is important to view the different rankings in the context of the past scholarly rankings environment and the current higher education policy environment. In the…
(7 August 2014) It is the first of its kind. The library is open 24 hours a day, carrying over 200,000 donated books. A wide selection of texts, ranging from literature, science, and arts to humanities welcomes people of all ages. Located in the heart of Paju Book City, a publishing community that creates, publishes…
(6 August 2014) ACO has added new data sets from South America (Argentina, Brazil, Chile), Asia (China, Taiwan, Japan, India and more) and Europe (Russia, Ukraine, Italy, France, Norway, The Netherlands and more) to the resource. It is now a truly multinational resource. Over thirty countries – their data updated each week – analytical tools…
(4 August 2014, Singapore) The National Library Board (NLB) will keep separate the team that selects books for acquisition, and the team that reviews the books, Dr Yaacob Ibrahim said in Parliament recently as reported by The Straits Times. Dr. Yaacob was speaking in the aftermath of the National Library Board’s banning of three children’s…
(3 August 2014, Columbus, Ohio) Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the world’s authority for chemical information, has proudly announced today the addition of dedicated ACS International, Ltd. (ACSI) representatives, located in the new Beijing office, to serve the needs of customers in China. The newly added staff…
(29 July 2014) A year ago today, the bipartisan IT Pricing Inquiry concluded that Australians do pay more for their music, movies and IT products. This ‘Australia tax’ they concluded, was not explained by additional staffing costs or warranty obligations, but primarily by deliberate market segmentation, enforced with geoblocks on digital content. And Australians are…
(29 July 2014) Venture capital (VC) is a relatively recent and rapidly growing phenomenon in emerging countries, especially Asia. Economic development in both developed and emerging countries increasingly depends on VC financing, but research on this subject has been scant; and what work has been done has been misunderstood within the context of emerging countries.…
(29 July 2014) The Southeast Asia Library Group’s annual meeting took place on 27-28 June in Frankfurt, Germany, in collaboration with Goethe University Library. There were participants from nine countries. Eleven papers were presented covering various areas of Southeast Asian librarianship, including manuscript studies and conservation, special collections and the use of primary sources, old…
(28 July 2014, Canberra) The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA), the peak body for libraries, has expressed concern regarding a media report about the potential for department libraries in the public service to be outsourced. The Canberra Times has today published a story online: ‘Government librarians urged to lobby for jobs in face of…
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