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…
(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…
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