(15 August 2014, Canberra) The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA), Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) and Public Library Services South Australia (PLS SA) are working together on a proof of concept trial for a ‘buy it now’ button. The aim is to help library users to purchase books via the library catalogue, benefitting local bookshops…
(14 Ogos 2014, Kuala Lumpur) Perpustakaan eBook Dunia, yang mempunyai koleksi kira-kira tiga juta buku dalam 200 bahasa boleh diakses melalui Internet. Eksekutif Pemasaran Access Dunia Sdn. Bhd., Bismayazan Abu Bakar Shedek berkata, koleksi perpustakaan ebook mengandungi beratus-ratus ebook dan eDokumen. Utusan Online has the story.
(14 August 2014) Sydney University library staff have been told they will be made redundant by the new system that will focus on a digital platform as well as the extension of opening hours. The planned cuts will affect 156 staff in total. Altmedia.net has the story.
(11 August 2014) The South China Morning Post reports on the growing space crunch in Hong Kong’s university libraries and what one librarian is doing about it. The story by Linda Yeung is here.
(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…
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