(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…
(29 July 2014) A year ago today, the bipartisan IT Pricing Inquiry concluded that Australians do pay more for their music, movies and IT products. This ‘Australia tax’ they concluded, was not explained by additional staffing costs or warranty obligations, but primarily by deliberate market segmentation, enforced with geoblocks on digital content. And Australians are…
(29 July 2014) Venture capital (VC) is a relatively recent and rapidly growing phenomenon in emerging countries, especially Asia. Economic development in both developed and emerging countries increasingly depends on VC financing, but research on this subject has been scant; and what work has been done has been misunderstood within the context of emerging countries.…
(29 July 2014) The Southeast Asia Library Group’s annual meeting took place on 27-28 June in Frankfurt, Germany, in collaboration with Goethe University Library. There were participants from nine countries. Eleven papers were presented covering various areas of Southeast Asian librarianship, including manuscript studies and conservation, special collections and the use of primary sources, old…
(28 July 2014, Canberra) The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA), the peak body for libraries, has expressed concern regarding a media report about the potential for department libraries in the public service to be outsourced. The Canberra Times has today published a story online: ‘Government librarians urged to lobby for jobs in face of…
(27 July 2014) Customs officers have arrested three men and a woman after seizing $530,000 worth of pirate textbooks. Complaints had been received from parents about the quality of textbooks ordered through their children’s primary schools. An investigation found the books were provided by the same supplier. Officers searched the supplier’s Yuen Long and Tuen…
Digitisation of ASEAN library collections (28 July 2014) The special topic of this newsletter of the Conference of Directors of National Libraries in Asia and Oceania is services for the handicapped. It includes papers from China, Japan and Korea. The table of contents with links to full text articles is here. Also in this issue…
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