(11 August 2014) The Australian government is seeking to amend its copyright act to address online copyright infringement. To that purpose, a discussion paper has been issued for public input until 1 September. The Online Copyright Infringement Discussion Paper released in July, makes a number of proposals to amend the Australian Copyright Act of 1968.…
(11 August 2014) A two day workshop on creating and managing a library consortium, and licensing eResources, will be held at the National Library in Malé, capital of the Maldives, on 22nd and 23rd of September. Convened by Fathimath Shiham, EIFL Country Coordinator and deputy director of the National Library, the workshop will be gathering…
(12 August 2014) The EIFL Public Library Innovation Award for services contributing to education of children and adults is now open. This call for applications is open to public and community libraries in developing and transition countries that use information and communication technology (ICT) in creative ways to contribute to education of children or adults.…
(11 August 2014, Emeryville, CA) Innovative announced today that Chulalongkorn University, Khon Kaen University, King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok, and Mahidol University have all selected the Sierra Library Services Platform. They will migrate from Innovative’s Millennium ILS.
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…
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