(7 May 2015) Propaganda and ideology in everyday life: Chinese comic books The Chinese collection at the British Library includes an interesting series of around 100 comic books published during the 1960s in the People’s Republic of China. They are an excellent historical and linguistic resource and represent an extraordinary example of how official sources…
(7 May 2015, Seattle, WA) The University of Waikato joins the growing community of libraries using Intota, a cloud-based library services platform. With Intota, ProQuest delivers transformative workflows that fundamentally change how libraries service their users. Empowering libraries to make data-driven decisions about their collections, Intota delivers an intuitive, user-friendly discovery and access experience for…
(7 May 2015) The growth rate in the number of students from India heading to universities abroad has outpaced China for the first time, according to a new report on Indian student mobility trends to the main English-speaking countries – the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. These five destination countries account for nearly…
(9 May 2015) The Endangered Archives Programme offers a number of grants every year to individual researchers world-wide to locate vulnerable archival collections, to arrange their transfer wherever possible to a suitable local archival home, and to deliver digital copies into the international research domain via the British Library. The specific focus of this Programme…
By Ruth A. Pagell1 (7 May 2015) There is a famous English poem called the Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner with a more famous line: ‘water, water everywhere nor any drop to drink’. Similarly, we are drowning in rankings. There are rankings, rankings everywhere nor any one that fits. In this series we have looked…
(6 May 2015) Since 1946, the Dag Hammarskjöld Library of the United Nations Secretariat in New York has arranged for the distribution of United Nations documents and publications to users around the world through its depository library system. Tribhuvan University Central Library, at Kirtipur, Kathmandu, which serves as the only UN depository library in Nepal,…
(6 May 2015) The University of Canberra Library has posted online its UC Referencing Guide. It covers AGLC, APA. Chicago, Harvard and Vancouver styles. Take a look here.
(6 May 2015) Papers and presentations from the 2014 Macau meeting of the Pacific Rim Research Libraries Alliance are now available at http://pr-rla.org/reports/. They include: PRDLA Business Meeting 2014 Janet Copsey, University of Auckland. PDF Monomania L.A. Hugh McHarg, University of Southern California. PDF Worth a Thousand Words: Hong Kong Images project at the University of Hong Kong…
(4 May 2015) The Chinese University of Hong Kong seeks an innovative and experienced librarian to lead the Library IT & Systems Division. The appointee will provide leadership in the strategic development of the IT infrastructure, enterprise library systems, technologies, applications and hardware for patron and library staff use in support of the Library’s mission…
(4 May 2015) Nestled at the foothills of Mount Inwangsan, Cheongun Literature Library is an emerging tourist draw in Seoul. In a rare architectural style for a public building in Korea, the library’s facade exudes a traditional feel, in harmony with the surrounding mountain landscape. The library is, in fact, a mix of the old…
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