(7 March 2016, SEALG) The University of Pennsylvania and National Library of Laos have launched the Digital Library of Northern Thai Manuscripts as a resource for the study of traditional literature from this region. At present, the digital library contains images of over 4,200 manuscripts which can be searched and viewed online or freely downloaded, and…
(7 March 2016) The latest statistics from Korea show that an increasing number of university students rely more on the internet than university libraries to do research and access books. According to a report on students’ usage of libraries by the Korea Education & Research Information Service, students borrowed 7.4 books per person on average…
(3 March 2016) The University of Malaya Library and the Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Malaya have announced the hosting of the 6th International Conference on Libraries, Information and Society, ICOLIS2016. The conference will be held at The Pullman Kuala Lumpur Bangsar on 20th –…
(1 March 2016) The Librarian will develop, manage and maintain convenient, accessible, updated and cost-effective library and information services for the Singapore campus. Establish and update library and information policies and procedures in line with S P Jain policies and communicate to users on regular basis. Review licensing agreements of digital resources and academic resources…
(1 March 2016) IFLA implemented the Building Strong Library Associations programme with the Myanmar Library Association (MLA) from 2013-2016. The project commenced at a critical time for the country, as the government began a process of ‘opening up’ after 50 years, and concluded in 2016 as a newly elected democratic government took office. The transformational…
(29 February 2016) The 85th issue of the Conference of Directors of National Libraries in Asia and Oceania (CDNLAO) newsletter highlights several of the IFLA Preservation and Conservation Centres in the region. The newsletter features articles by the IFLA PAC Centres of Korea, Sri Lanka and Japan as well as report from IFLA Headquarters on the…
(1 March 2016, Bengaluru) The library committee of the Indian Institute of Science, has outsourced the scanning of thesis papers. The remaining work like preparing the index, making data legible and easy searching with links was done by the library staff. Each thesis has around 250 pages and around 5,000 theses are to be digitised.…
(29 February 2016) The following is issued on behalf of the Legislative Council Secretariat: The Legislative Council Secretariat (the Secretariat) today (February 29) released a Research Brief on Challenges of Public Libraries in Hong Kong. Public libraries provide an important channel for the public to have free access to information and knowledge. In Hong Kong,…
(25 February 2016) The “right to be forgotten” refers to an individual’s ability to request that a search engine (or other data provider) remove links to information about himself or herself from search results. This has also been referred to as the “right to delist,” the “right to obscurity,” the “right to erasure” or the…
(17 February 2016) On behalf of The Joint University Librarians Advisory Committee (JULAC), HKUST Library is seeking an experienced individual to fill a project position whose main responsibility is to implement JULAC’s new shared Integrated Library System (ILS). The implementation manager is responsible for data conversion/migration, implementation, support and administration of the new ILS. Duties…
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