(Emeryville, CA., 9 August 2013) The Lingnan University Library in Hong Kong upgraded to the Sierra Services Platform from the Millennium ILS this past month. The internationally recognized liberal arts university has been a customer of Innovative since 1993 and participates in the Hong Kong Academic Library Link (HKALL) that utilizes Innovative’s INN-Reach resource-sharing solution.…
(29 July 2103) The Indigenous Project Group has released community guidelines to assist library professionals in building relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and communities, reports National and State Libraries Australia. The Indigenous project group has released Working with Community: Guidelines for collaborative practice between Libraries and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities.…
The Guardian, 7 August 2013, Library Futures, has interviews with library chiefs worldwide on the challenges they face. Three of the 10 are in the Asia Pacific Region. Tama Art University Library, Japan, was designed by Toyo Ito, winner of the 2103 Pritzker Prize. Its director, Hidemi Kondo, says it inspires and challenges in equal…
(2 August 2013) The Education Bureau today launched the second phase of the eTextbook Market Development Scheme. The second phase has taken the recommendations of the Steering Committee on Selection, Quality Assurance & Review of e-Textbook Market Development Scheme and the positive feedback received from stakeholders. The phase will cover more subjects, especially science, Chinese…
(4 August 2013) There’s not a lot of it left. So if just for the sake of nostalgia and the delight of social historians, news that the Government Records Service is preserving more than 8,000 pictures of old Hong Kong, some of which have already been uploaded to its website, will be thrilling. The collection…
(3 August 2013) The National Library of Thailand and Thai Library Association will host the 16th Congress of Southeast Asian Librarians (CONSAL XVI) Meeting and General Conference in Bangkok, Thailand under the theme of “ASEAN Aspirations : Libraries for Sustainable Advancement” in 2015. Dates are 11-13 June 2015. Those of you with a long memory…
(1 August 2013) IFLA has announced the August 2013 issue of International Preservation News. The issue theme is From Traditional to Digital Written Heritage: An Asian Perspective. Articles include an overview of preservation in the region; manuscripts in India; preservation in Central Asia; and treatment of tsunami ravaged documents. See the complete table of contents…
(Columbus, Ohio, 31 July 2013) Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), the world’s authority for chemical information, announced today that the 2013 Inventory of Existing Chemical Substances in China (IECSC) has been added to its database containing international regulatory information for chemical substances, CHEMLIST®. This information is available on STN®, the choice of patent experts, in SciFinder®,…
What makes a library beautiful? Its architecture? Age? Frescoes? Marble floors and coffered ceilings? Manicured gardens? The place where you met your spouse? Jill Harness has rounded up scores of buildings for her personal beautiful libraries list. Sixteen of them are in the Asia-Pacific region. See them here: http://mentalfloss.com/article/51788/62-worlds-most-beautiful-libraries
(30 July 2013) In a first for a New Zealand university, Lincoln University has implemented an open access policy, allowing staff and postgraduate students to make their research outputs including research data, teaching materials and public records, openly and freely accessible on the web. The decision by Lincoln University to make content openly and freely…
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