(11 February 2014) The IFLA Regional Standing Committee for Asia and Oceania Section will be holding its annual Mid-Term Meeting from 17 – 18 February 2014 at the Petronas Petroleum Resource Centre, Kuala Lumpur City Centre (KLCC), Kuala Lumpur. The two day meeting will be followed by an International Seminar on Library Consortium & Community…
If you’re contemplating producing tutorials to help students be better researchers, lend an ear to the online tutorials from the Canberra University Library. They cover avoiding plagiarism, referencing, finding journal articles and more. The tutorials are clear and precise and range from 5 to 15 minutes. Listen to them on the Canberra University Library website.
(29 January 2014) The 2013 Chinese Library Annual Conference was held in Pudong New Area of Shanghai from 7-9 November. Its theme was “Literary China: Reading leads the Future”. The National Library of China (NLC) designed and built the experience area of Digital Library Promotion Project. The illustrated article is here.
(7 February 2014) The first two free online courses by Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have received huge response globally, with more than 27,000 sign ups so far. The two courses are offered on the leading Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) platform Coursera, which has tie-ups with more than 60 universities around the world to offer…
(8 February 2014) The seminar is co-organized by the Customs and Excise Department and Lingnan University’s Fong Sum Wood Library. In this seminar, the Inspectors from the Customs and Excise Department will introduce ways to protect and enforce intellectual property in Hong Kong. The seminar, in English, is on 20 February. Details are here.
(8 February 2014) HKUST library has published issue #91 (February 2014) of its Notes from the Library. Upcoming library exhibitions, the opening of the Ko Pui Shuen Gallery and the Research Assessment Exercise 2014 are among the stories. The latter, RAE2014, is an exercise to assess the research quality of UGC funded institutions. The library…
(7 February 2014) The University of Sydney has a new Research Data Management Policy. It includes an electronic lab notebooks service, a research data store and data management guidelines. The Research Data Management policy sets out the responsibilities of the University, Faculty representatives and individual researchers with regard to the management, storage, retention and ownership of…
(6 February 2104) Singapore Management University is hiring staff for its Li Ka Shing university library. The positions are Library Specialist, Circulation (Part Time), Research Data Services Librarian/Manager and Research Librarian, Social Sciences. Applications are welcome from qualified individuals anywhere in the world, in particular those who may be looking for an opportunity to return to Asia…
(Nay Pyi Taw, 2 February 2014) The Asia Foundation and the Myanmar Book Aid and Preservation Foundation today released the first-ever national survey of Myanmar’s public libraries in conjunction with the opening of the Association for Southeast Asian Nations Library Development Forum 2014 in the nation’s capital with the theme “Libraries for Society.” The Myanmar…
(31 January 2014) SEALG reports on The Wellcome Library’s digitisation programme including important Asian collections especially pertaining to medicine, religious practices, divination and magic, including Malay, Batak and Javanese manuscripts (described in Ricklefs & Voorhoeve 1982). Wellcome Images, another digitisation initiative of the Wellcome Library, makes available a wealth of images, including images from Malay manuscripts…
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