(11 December 2014) Taiwan’s National Central Library (NCL)’s Director-general Tseng Shu-hsien and University Librarian Furuta Motoo of the University of Tokyo library system signed a cooperative memorandum on 10 December 2014 to establish a Taiwan Resource Center for Chinese Studies (TRCCS), as well as hold an opening ceremony. Director-general Tseng stated that each year, NCL…
(17 December 2014) The diversity of Chinese institutions and their growing contribution to global scientific developments and collaborations with other countries have been highlighted in the Nature Index China 2014, published as a supplement in Nature today. By 2013 weighted fractional count (WFC), China is currently the country with the second largest output in the…
(19 December 2014) Following the success of the EIFL eLibrary Myanmar project at Yangon University and Mandalay University, Dagon University and Yadanabon University (two of the largest undergraduate universities in Myanmar) and the Yangon University of Economics have been welcomed to the project. The eLibrary Myanmar project was created to support educational change at an expanding range…
ISSN 1344-7238 Selections from NDL Collection Material recently designated as a national important cultural property: Kōan reisetsu Inside of the Nakamura-za Theater in Edo Exhibition “Autograph manuscripts and original artwork of well-known people” Events NDL Database Forum in the Tokyo Main Library and in the Kansai-kan Article Struggles of the National Diet Library in Collecting…
(18 December 2014) The National Diet Library has posted the December 2014 CDNLAO Newsletter on its website. Issue No.81 includes articles from China, Japan and Australia on the special topic: How to enhance acquisition activities in your library [Australia] Using ONIX data for MARC record creation at the National Library of Australia [China] Acquisition activities in the…
(19 December 2014) The 23rd meeting of the Conference of the Directors of National Libraries in Asia and Oceania (CDNLAO) will be held on 10 June 2015, Bangkok, Thailand under the theme of National Libraries for Sustainable Advancement. The details are here.
(17 December 2014, Singapore) Bookmate, a leading social eBook reading service, is finally available in Singapore. Boasting a comprehensive library of over 500,000 eBooks from 600 publishers, Bookmate empowers reading fans to search, discover, interact and read as much as they want, wherever they are. Available at a flat monthly fee, the service offers books…
(17 December 2014) Singapore’s SAFTI Military Institute is looking for an experienced Librarian for SAFTI MI Library. The SAFTI Military Institute Library was formed in September 1994 with the merger of the former SAFTI Library at Pasir Laba Camp and the Singapore Command and Staff College (SCSC) Library. The LAS website has the details.
(12 December 2014) There will be no extension to authorisation liability under the online copyright infringement proposals outlined this week by the Communications Minister and Attorney-General. “This is excellent news for libraries” said Trish Hepworth, the law and policy advisor for the Australian Libraries Copyright Committee (ALCC). “The original proposal to extend authorisation liability would…
(15 December 2014) The Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the Smithsonian’s museums of Asian art, will release their entire collections online 1 January 2015, providing unprecedented access to one of the world’s most important holdings of Asian and American art. The vast majority of the 40,000 artworks have never before been…
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