The library on a Chinese beach
(18 May 2015) A Chinese architect has created what must be one of the world’s quietest reading spaces, on a beach outside the city of Qinhuangdao. Designing Libraries has the story.
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OKSHF research grant at USC Korean Heritage Library
(19 May 2015) The Korean Heritage Library (KHL) at the University of Southern California is pleased to announce research grants for researchers, librarians, and educators in Korean Studies. Thanks to generous support from the Overseas Korean Studies and Heritage Foundation (OKSHF), the grant assists scholars in their use of USC Korean Heritage Library’s resources for…
“The Establishment of Taiwan Resource Center for Chinese Studies” Awarded 2015 ALA Presidential Citation for Innovative International Library Projects
(17 May 2015) NCL’s “The Establishment of Taiwan Resource Center for Chinese Studies (TRCCS)—Global Promotion of Chinese Studies of the National Central Library, R.O.C. (Taiwan)” was awarded the 2015 Presidential Citation for Innovative International Library Project by the American Library Association (ALA). The NCL representative will be present to receive the framed citation from Courtney…
The Conference on the Future of Academic Libraries held in PKU
(15 May 2015, Peking University) During 23-24 April 2015, the Conference on the Future of Academic Libraries in China and North America – Discussions Among Library Directors, was held in Peking University (PKU) Library. PKU Library and Harvard University Library jointly organized this conference. Present at the conference were library directors from universities in China…
The NCL and University of Oxford sign a memorandum for a Taiwan Resource Center for Chinese Studies
(15 May 2015) On April 7th, the National Central Library (NCL)’s Director General Shu-hsien Tseng and Deputy Librarian Catriona Cannon from the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, signed a memorandum for a Taiwan Resource Center for Chinese Studies (TRCCS), as well as the MOU on the Union Catalog of Chinese Rare Book database. This TRCCS…
Sports library case study – Melbourne Cricket Club
(15 May 2015) The Melbourne Cricket Club (MCC) Library was founded in 1873 and serves as a comprehensive Reference Library for MCC members, their guests and the media on match days and to the general public and researchers by appointment on nonmatch days. The library houses over 200,000 resources relating to national and international cricket,…
AUNILO Strategic Planning Meeting
(14 May 2015) Since AUNILO’s initiation in the year 2003, it has been organizing its annual meeting and planned activities among the member countries and accomplished a series of initiatives to boost online resource sharing among AUN members. In the 10th AUNILO Meeting in April 2014, the Member Universities have decided to hold a Strategic…
Brill donates over 500 frontlist titles to Loyola College in India in partnership with SPi Global
(13 May 2015) Brill, the international scholarly publisher, donated over 500 books to Loyola College in Chennai, India as part of its Adopt a Library Program. The donation of scholarly books covers subject areas in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Biology and is part of Brill’s Adopt a Library Program. Each year the company donates…
Advancing Science in India
(13 May 2015) Representatives from AAAS/Science were recently in India with the aim of promoting Science and research in India. Mr. Tom Ryan (Director), Ms. Eileen Bernadette Moran (Director, Corporate Relations) and Ms. Kiki Forsythe (Senior Publisher Relations Specialists) first attended the 11th Annual Meet & Workshop of INDEST-AICTE Consortium held at IISER Mohali from April 29th…
Diamond Jubilee Conference on Librarians for the Cyber World
(11 May 2015) The Librarians Association of Malaysia (PPM) is celebrating PPM’s 60th Year (1955-2015) with a conference: Diamond Jubilee Conference on Librarians for the Cyber World. It takes place in Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur, 14-15 September 2015. More here.
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