(18 February 2014) Today LIANZA launched its three hour online learning course, Database Searching. This new course will equip you with the skills to competently search your library’s subscription databases, so that you can help your users make better use of these valuable resources. The course was developed by Alastair Smith. Learners have six months…
(17 February 2014) The Leisure & Cultural Services Department has signed an agreement to digitise the Hok Hoi Collection. Founded in 1923, Hok Hoi Library has 35,000 books, including rare classical Chinese thread-sewn books, valuable out-of-print books, and manuscripts of Chinese classics, many of which are of a high academic standard. Assistant Director of Leisure…
(17 February 2014) The Attorney-General has tabled the final report from the Australian Law Reform Commission’s (ALRC) Copyright and the Digital Economy inquiry. This inquiry was charged with determining if copyright exceptions and limitations were working in the digital age. The conclusion was that reform was needed. Among the recommendations are that fair use exceptions…
(11 February 2014) The Ministry of Culture, focal Ministry for ASCC Myanmar, organized the ASEAN Library Development Forum 2014 with the theme of “Libraries for Society” at Mingala Thiri Hotel, Nay Pyi Taw on 3-4 February 2014. The purpose of the forum was to exchange experience, knowledge and issues of library professionals from Asia and…
(14 February 2014) The National Diet Library (NDL) of Japan uses the results of assessment, analysis, and evaluation of its own activities (services and operations) into future planning and activities. This Activity Performance Evaluation system is intended to help achieve the high-end mission and objectives advocated by the NDL. Also, we have adopted a Plan-Do-Check-Act…
(13 February 2014, modified 14 February 2014) The Australian Law Reform Commission, ALRC, was asked to consider whether the current exceptions and statutory licences in the Copyright Act are adequate and appropriate in the digital era. The Report, tabled on 13 February 2014, is the result of an 18 month Inquiry during which the ALRC produced…
On 14 February approximately 4,000 books, which had previously been provided only inside the National Diet Library, became available on the internet after copyright clearance. Newly added materials can be searched and read in the Digital Library from the Meiji Era and the National Diet Library Digital Collections. As a result, the total number of…
(13 February 2014) The Academic and Research Libraries Section (ARL), with generous sponsorship by ExLibris and Sage, is offering three Attendance Grants for the IFLA Congress in Lyon 2014 to an information professional from each of these regions: • Africa • Latin America • Asia/Pacific region Each grant covers the registration fee of Euro 455…
On 27 January 2014, the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS, Japan) and the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa, Switzerland) signed a 5-year collaborative agreement on co-publishing the open access journal Science and Technology of Advanced Materials (STAM, ISSN 1468-6996). Both NIMS and Empa are the leading materials science research institutes…
Australian Volunteers for International Development is looking for a librarian for the public library of Luang Prabang, Laos, a UNESCO World Heritage town. The AVID volunteer will conduct a needs analysis and work with library staff to develop the action plan which will identify improvements to current operations, strategies to enhance services and steps to…
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