(16 June 2014, Kuala Lumpur) Perpustakaan Negara Malaysia (PNM) has unveiled Malaysia’s first Samsung SMART Library. Located at the first floor of the National Library’s main building this first of its kind digital-book reading zone results from a public-private partnership between PNM and Samsung Malaysia Electronics (SME) Sdn Bhd. The Samsung SMART Library at PNM…
(19 June 2014) During May 2014, The University of Western Sydney Library conducted its seventh Client Satisfaction Survey and after a year of significant changes (a new Library Management System; a new website; new University Librarian) the Library continues to be ranked in the top 10 percent of Australian/New Zealand tertiary libraries, with an overall…
(10 June 2014) SEAM (Southeast Asia Materials Project) has microfilmed the years 1992–2005 of the Indonesian newspaper Harian Sore Garuda. This daily regional newspaper from Medan continued the Harian Garuda (a successor to the armed forces daily Harian angkatan bersenjata) and was published until February 2005. Copies of the newspaper were provided for microfilming from…
(16 June 2014) Applications are invited for the appointment of a Research Librarian, Economics in the Li Ka Shing Library, Singapore Management University (SMU). This position serves as the liaison for faculty and students from the School of Economics and related programs. The position holder works in a team environment to create and develop innovative…
(16 June 2014) OASPA held its 1st Asian Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing in Bangkok, Thailand, 2-3 June 2014. Prompted by the rapid growth in OA across this region in recent years, this international conference brought together academic publishers, librarians and the research community to discuss open access publishing as a global industry with…
(16 June 2014) ALIA’s Australian Public Library Alliance (APLA) has released the report A comparison of ebooks and elending in Australian Public Libraries 2013 v 2014. The report compares an eBooks and eLending survey completed in January 2013 to the same survey completed in May 2014 and will be produced annually to show eBook and…
(June 2014) As dry as a bone. An apt description of annual reports from anywhere in the world. Also too many pages guaranteed to make one drowsy. But there’s always an exception to the rule. In this case Singapore Management University. SMU’s Li Ka Shing Library has published its 2013 annual report as a video and…
(15 June 2014) Hong Kong, Guangdong and Macau signed a tripartite cultural cooperation plan for 2014-18 at the 15th Greater Pearl River Delta Cultural Co-operation Meeting in Guangzhou today. The three jurisdictions agreed to further strengthen co-operation on public libraries, intangible cultural heritage, and connections between public cultural service mechanisms. Read the story here.
(13 June 2014) The British Library has reposted a detailed description of the Text to Image Linking Tool (TILT) one of the winners for the British Library Labs competition 2014. It has been reposted on the Digital Scholarship blog on behalf of Desmond Schmidt and Anna Gerber, University of Queensland. TILT is a tool for linking areas on…
(12 June 2014) Singapore is revamping its libraries to become digital hubs that help achieve broader economic and societal goals. The city state recently announced the launch of three Smart Work Centres, where people can book pay-per-use workspaces, complete with meeting rooms, video-conferencing facilities, internet access and photocopiers. Read the Asia Pacific FutureGov story by Joshua Chambers…
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