(8 September 2015, San Francisco) This International Literacy Day, The Asia Foundation’s Books for Asia is launching a crowdfunding campaign to benefit the Let’s Read! Asia digital library, the international nonprofit’s first eBook donation project. A collaboration with the nonprofit Library for All, the library is one of the first of its kind in developing…
(7 September 2015) Tiu Keng Leng Sports Centre and Public Library was officially opened today to provide district residents with various quality facilities for sports, leisure and reading. Speaking at the opening ceremony, the Secretary for Home Affairs, Mr Lau Kong-wah, said Tseung Kwan O has become an energetic new town with a population of…
(7 August 2015) The National Institute of Library and Information Sciences (NILIS) University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, is hosting the NILIS International Conference in Information Science (ICIS 2015), 12-14 November 2015. The theme of the meeting is Access to information; methods and measures. Conference details are here. The first day is devoted to a MPhil/PhD…
(3 September 2015) Monash University Malaysia is seeking suitably qualified candidates for the position of Academic Librarian in the Johor Bahru Clinical School, Monash University Malaysia. The Monash Library and Learning Commons has three operational units (Information Resources, Information Services and Academic Liaisons) with 29 full-time professional and paraprofessional staff. The Johor Bahru Clinical School…
Free Access to “The Public Library in an Aging Society: Developing Active Library Participation in Japan” Japan represents a typical nation with their overall demographic shifting toward the older population. In 2012, Japan’s total population was 127.5 million, of which 31 million were over 65 years of age. Now in Japan, one in every four…
(2 September 2015) LIANZA has announced the launch of The Future of Libraries Summit Report. Aimed at driving greater collaboration in the sector this future focused summit was looking for concrete actions to cement the integral role that libraries play in their communities, whether those communities are made up of academics, students, employees, or general…
(2 September 2015) TK Park president Sirikorn Maneerin said it took three years to complete the project and the library was now ready. “The trend is moving towards digital libraries, and we see lots of leading bookstores closing down,” she noted. The pilot project was launched five years ago, with TK Park introducing a 2eBook…
(1 September 2015) A modern General Science Library worth nearly VND51 billion (US$2.24 million) was inaugurated by the Han River in Da Nang on 31 August based on the upgrade and expansion of the old library. The library also consists of functional rooms including a reading room for children, a multimedia reading room, a room…
(31 August 2015) The National Archives of Thailand is moving ahead with the digitisation of documents, photos, maps and microfilms, some dating back over a century as well as enabling online searches. Currently, researchers need to search for things manually from lists of documents, and understand the categorising system since a number of documents are…
(31 August 2105, Bogor) The wood library, named Xylarium Bogoriense, was established by Dutch colonials in 1914. The collection has 34,301 wood specimens which consist of 110 tribes (families), 675 genera (genus), and 3,667 species. There are five main functions of the wood library including supporting research on the anatomical features of woody plant taxonomy; and…
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