(10 September 2013) LIANZA has posted a summary on its website of the feedback it received on its Strategic Plan. The themes include leadership, collaboration, governance and advocacy. Read more here.
(Beijing, China, 28 August 2013) – Wolters Kluwer Health will be working with the People’s Health Publishing House (PMPH), the largest medical publisher in China, to expand its domestic and foreign healthcare publishing market. Under the MOU, Wolters Kluwer Health and PMPH will deepen and expand their collaboration. While PMPH will continue to translate Wolters…
(China Daily, 26 August 2103) The China Daily reports that passengers on Shanghai’s Metro Line 2 will be able to select a book at one station and return it to any of the other stations with customized bookshelves. Readers do not have to pay a deposit or any rent for the books and magazines they…
(TNN 3 September) The Zila Rajkiya Library in Chunniganj, Kanpur, India, is about to be renovated as a “global library” with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The Times of India has the story.
(29 August 2013) Beyond Access has announced a new partnership with the City Government of Davao, Philippines and the Davao City Library to support the City Government in its efforts to transform its libraries into centers for economic opportunity. After attending the Beyond Access 2012 conference, the Davao City Library hosted a series of public…
(30 August 2013) Illustrations of the Reports of General MacArthur have been added to the NDL Digitized Contents. They consist of maps, photographs and paintings from the Reports of General MacArthur. The original materials are owned by the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Five items (about 500 images) of digitized contents from the Illustrations…
(28 August) Publishing Technology and CNPIEC, the China National Publications Import and Export (Group) Corporation have unveiled the CNP eReading platform at the Beijing International Book Fair this week. At launch, the site carries over 200,000 individual book titles from more than 300 international publishers, extending their reach into the rapidly growing Chinese market and…
PowerPoint presentations and videos are now available from the Academic Librarian 3: The Yin-Yang of Future Consortial Collaboration and Competition website. The conference took place in Hong Kong, 30-31 May 2013.
(15 August 2013) Singapore announced the release of more data and its intension to make all datasets on data.gov.sg and OneMap machine-readable by the end of 2013, with an eye on driving social innovation and co-creation, reports futuregov. Data.gov.sg is a one-stop data portal with 8600 datasets from 60 public agencies, currently. Since its launch in…
(22 August 2013) The Research and Legislative Reference Bureau of Japan’s National Diet Library conducts cross-sectoral research on important political issues. Research Material “Japan-US Relations Reconsidered” is the result of the research conducted from 2012 to 2013 to analyze Japan-US relations in the context of the international situation in the Asia Pacific region which faces…
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