(15 June 2014) Hong Kong, Guangdong and Macau signed a tripartite cultural cooperation plan for 2014-18 at the 15th Greater Pearl River Delta Cultural Co-operation Meeting in Guangzhou today. The three jurisdictions agreed to further strengthen co-operation on public libraries, intangible cultural heritage, and connections between public cultural service mechanisms. Read the story here.
(13 June 2014) The British Library has reposted a detailed description of the Text to Image Linking Tool (TILT) one of the winners for the British Library Labs competition 2014. It has been reposted on the Digital Scholarship blog on behalf of Desmond Schmidt and Anna Gerber, University of Queensland. TILT is a tool for linking areas on…
(12 June 2014) Singapore is revamping its libraries to become digital hubs that help achieve broader economic and societal goals. The city state recently announced the launch of three Smart Work Centres, where people can book pay-per-use workspaces, complete with meeting rooms, video-conferencing facilities, internet access and photocopiers. Read the Asia Pacific FutureGov story by Joshua Chambers…
(13 June 2014) The PNC 2014 Annual Conference and Joint Meetings, 21-23 October, Taipei, Taiwan, has called for papers. Focusing on the collaboration between digital technology and museums, the main theme this year is Museum Computing: An Approach to Bridging Cultures, Communities and Science. Topics include digital libraries, images, cloud computing, data mining and big data. More…
(12 June 2014) The HKUST library has created for its research community, Scholarly Communications@HKUST Library. It covers getting published, data management, open access, research repositories and more. Take a look here.
(10 Jun 2014) Immediately preceding the ICSTI 2014 General Assembly will be a workshop titled “Enhancing Discoverability and Accessibility of Scientific and Technical Research Information and Data”. It will explore the intersections in technical aspects and approaches to discoverability and improved accessibility to scientific and technical research information and data. Existing models representing the university,…
(9 June 2014) The 2014 PRDLA Program Planning Committee is pleased to announce the theme of the 2014 meeting will be Revealing the Hidden: the collections of the Pacific Rim. Submissions are welcome. The 2014 annual meeting takes place in Macau, 2-4 December. More here.
(9 June 2014) The Open and Shut? blog curated by Richard Poynder interviews S. Arunachalam on what is happening with open access in India, and the form that it is taking. Read the interview here.
(10 June 2014) La Trobe University’s Academic Referencing Tool gives detailed examples for many of the prescribed styles of referencing used at the university including AGLC, APA 6, Harvard (AGPS) and Footnoting (Oxford). It was created for La Trobe students, by La Trobe librarians, in consultation with La Trobe academic staff. The tool includes examples of in-text…
(9 June 2014, Adelaide, Australia, and Christchurch, New Zealand) Ex Libris® Group and Lincoln University are pleased to announce that the University has opted for the Ex Libris Alma library management service and the Primo® discovery and delivery solution. Deployed in the cloud, Alma and Primo will provide the University’s students and academic staff with…
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