(20 March 2015, Beijing) – The news websites of Reuters, including those in English and Chinese, were inaccessible in China on Friday, after users first experienced difficulties accessing them late on Thursday. The websites of Bloomberg News, the New York Times and News Corp’s Wall Street Journal have all been inaccessible in China for some…
(19 March 2015, Singapore) Ex Libris® Group announces that the Singapore Institute of Management (SIM) is live with the Ex Libris Alma library management solution. The first library in Singapore to adopt Alma, SIM expects the migration to serve as a transformative platform to realize the Library’s ‘Vision 2020’ milestones. “The search for a unified,…
(18 March 2015) The Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) and the Australian Society of Authors (ASA) are accepting applications for 2015CAUL and ASA Fellowships. The Fellowships have been made possible through the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund. CAUL and the ASA expect to award one fellowship with a value of up to $15,000 in 2015. The…
(17 March 2015) IEEE announces a partnership with the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers® (SMPTE), the worldwide leader in motion-imaging standards and education for the communications, media, entertainment, and technology industries. With this partnership, IEEE will host the SMPTE Digital Library within the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. The SMPTE Digital Library includes the…
(16 March 2015, Fresh Meadows, NY) Due to tremendous growth in the eBook market, Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia (Penerbit USM, thereafter USM Press) tapped Data Conversion Laboratory (DCL) to convert its inventory of books and academic journals to EPUB format. In the past 21 months, this partnership has facilitated growth of USM Press’s list of…
17 March 2015) Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs opened a “Media Geijutsu Database” (Media Fine Arts Database) website on Tuesday to chronicle works of manga, animation, and games. The website is Japanese only. The site has data on about 250 thousand manga volumes and 80 thousand magazines, ranging from the early Meiji Era to January…
(17 March 2015) Several thousand items have been added to the National Diet Library Digital Collections. A summary of them is here including naterials on the allied occupation of Japan, the Prange Collection, and rare books and manuscripts.
(26 February 2015) Petrisson Teo photographs three brand new libraries in Singapore that have recently been completed, refurbished and unveiled to the public. UrbanWire visits them to find out how libraries rich with knowledge and learning remain relevant in the digital age. The urbanwire.com has the story and photographs.
(16 March 2015) EIFL – in association with the University of Mandalay, the University of Yangon and Yadanabon University – ran a series of seminars in February on ‘Open access: How to maximise the impact, efficiency and availability of your research’ as part of the EIFL eLibrary Myanmar project. Over 200 participants – Rectors, Pro-Rectors, Heads of…
(13 March 2015) If you have fresh perspective and research in devising and developing tools, techniques, systems and services to capture, publish, organize, and facilitate access to the use of indigenous digital knowledge, then South Asian Libraries Conference (SALC2015) is a platform for you to think, deliberate and share your findings. SALC 2015 provides unique opportunity…
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