(31 May 2016) Applications are invited for the appointment of Research Librarian, Social Sciences, in SMU Libraries, Singapore Management University. This position is primarily a liaison role for faculty and students from the School of Social Sciences and related programmes. The position holder works in a team environment to create and develop innovative library products…
(31 May 2016, Boston, MA) Institutional library budgets across the globe will increase by 1.4 per cent overall this year, reports the Annual Library Budget Survey, carried out by the Publishers Communication Group (PCG), Ingenta’s publishing consultancy arm. The worldwide study, which interviewed senior librarians in 686 institutional libraries across the globe about their budget…
(27 May 2016) Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects has been awarded first prize in an international competition to design the 25,000m² Student Centre & Library for the Wenzhou-Kean University in Wenzhou, China. Set on 500 acres in a rural mountainous region, the university will provide learning and living space for 8.500 students. The new building is…
(26 May 2016) Bangkok is preparing to launch a new kind of city library, a reading space that will stay open 24 hours a day and have reasonable membership costs. Located near Kok Wua Intersection on Rachadamnoen Road, the Bangkok City Library will provide both Thai and foreign books as well as a selection for readers…
(26 May 2016) The Curator provides leadership and expert advice in the development, management, discovery and interpretation of the Library’s collections, including the Mitchell and Dixson Collections, to meet the State Library’s strategic and corporate goals. ALIA has the job description and application procedures.
(25 May 2016) The National Digital Library (NDL) project initiated by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) and being executed by IIT Kharagpur is up and running in its pilot form, the institute said in a statement on Wednesday. The NDL in 2016 will bring under its fold 100 institutes and roll out a…
Special topic: CDNLAO Meeting [New Zealand] Hosting the 24th Conference of Directors of National Libraries in Asia and Oceania (CDNLAO) [Japan] Participating in the 24th CDNLAO Meeting [Singapore] IFLA Regional Office (Asia & Oceania) – International Collaboration in the Region and How to Contribute News [Bhutan] Mr. Dasho Dorji Norbu, newly-appointed Director General of the National Library and Archives of Bhutan [Japan]…
(25 May 2016) Yale-NUS College, Singapore, seeks innovative, self-motivated and service-oriented professionals to provide research assistance and instruction, and build collections to support the teaching, learning and research needs of the college community. You will undertake subject responsibilities and lead in one or more of the following operational areas: instructional services, reference and research services,…
(24 May 2016) The famous Blaeu-Van der Hem Atlas is kept at the Austrian National Library in Vienna. In 2004, UNESCO added it to the tangible listing of World Heritage, also referred to as the ‘Memory of the World’, to preserve it for the future. The facsimile edition contains the most important volumes: the so-called…
(24 May 2016, Beijing, Xinhua) The Chinese government has added 899 valuable ancient manuscripts to the catalog under state protection. They include oracles, manuscripts on bamboo strips and silk scrolls, ancient paper copies of tablet inscriptions, rare manuscripts in ethnic minority languages and in foreign languages such as Latin and English, said Zhang Zhiqing, deputy…
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