(4 November 2013) Springer and the Qatar National Library (QNL) have signed a groundbreaking agreement for access to eBooks and electronic journals on Springer’s platform SpringerLink. The national license entitles Qatar to use one of the largest scientific, technical and medical eBook collections in the world. Dr. Claudia Lux, Project Director of Qatar National Library,…
(4 November 2013) The Education Bureau has received 57 applications for the development of eTextbooks under its eTextbook market development scheme’s second phase. Twenty applications cover mathematics, eight English language, and five Chinese language. Application results are expected to be available in late December 2013. The remaining 24 applications cover computer literacy, Putonghua, science, history, geography,…
(2 November 2013) The Southeast Asia Library Group, SEALG, reports that The British Library’s Endangered Archives Programme has awarded a grant to the Northern Illinois University, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, for a pilot project dedicated to the preservation of Cham manuscripts. The Cham are an important ethnic minority in Vietnam. Descendants of the Champa…
(1 November 2013) What does the Menzies Library, a ghost buster, the Loch Ness monster, and a penguin onesie have in common? Nothing! But yesterday afternoon, each of these came together for the inaugural ANU Library Halloween party. Witches, ghouls, and Harry Potter greeted over 30 postgraduate and research students in the Menzies foyer, before…
(4 November 2013) A study released today suggests that hospitals, government departments, associations and other organisations involved in healthcare gain a AUD9 return for every dollar they invest in health libraries. Health Libraries Inc (HLInc) and Health Libraries Australia (ALIA HLA, a national group of the Australian Library and Information Association) commissioned award-winning firm SGS Economics…
In August, READ Nepal received a Public Library Innovation Award from Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL) at the IFLA WLIC 2013 for its commitment to empowering women in innovative ways at our Model Center in Kathmandu, Nepal. Gender discrimination is pervasive in Nepal—girls’ education is a low priority and as a result, 48 percent of…
(10 October 2013) Like young people everywhere, Vietnam’s youth are abandoning print and paper for eBooks. Students are also ignoring libraries which only offer printed books and charge a deposit, according to Vietnamnet. Read the story here.
(23 October 2013) Coursera has announced the addition of 13 new institutions representing 11 countries bringing the total number of partners offering courses on its platform to 107. Joining Coursera today from the Asia-Pacific region are the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Also newly joined are the Copenhagen…
Ramesh Prajuli and Susan Garner describe the newly inaugurated library of the Election Commission Nepal (ECN) in Kathmandu. It has centralized old archives into a new building, developed policies hitherto unfamiliar, trained staff and is actively seeking to broaden its clientele to reaches beyond the city boundary. It is primarily a reference library, but in…
(24 October 2013) On Day 2 at IGF, IFLA participated in five workshops with topics spanning rights issues for disadvantaged and indigenous peoples, copyright and content creation and net neutrality. IFLA participated as a panelist in Workshop 59, Content Creation, Access to Information and Open Internet, co-organised by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) and Internet…
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