(25 May 2015, Canberra) Thrillers, crime, humour, fantasy, science fiction, cookery, biography and contemporary literature all featured in the lists of Australia’s most borrowed library books for the first quarter of 2015, announced today by the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA), at the start of Library and Information Week (25-31 May). Library and Information…
(22 May 2015) The Bhutan Library Consortium has posted on its website a list of online catalogues in the country. The 15 catalogues with links include colleges, institutes and The National Library. The list is here.
(23 May 2015) The University of Oregon Libraries seeks a knowledgeable, creative, and service-oriented colleague for the position of East Asian Cataloging Team Leader. The ALA website has a full description of the job.
(21 May 2015) National Central Library (NCL)’s Director General Shu-hsien Tseng and Dr. Catherine Eagleton, Head of Asian and African Studies, British Library (BL), signed a Cooperation Agreement at the NCL on May 21, 2015. Lead Curator Ms. Sara Chiesura from the BL was in attendance to witness this historic moment. The Database of the…
(18 May 2015) A Chinese architect has created what must be one of the world’s quietest reading spaces, on a beach outside the city of Qinhuangdao. Designing Libraries has the story.
(19 May 2015) The Korean Heritage Library (KHL) at the University of Southern California is pleased to announce research grants for researchers, librarians, and educators in Korean Studies. Thanks to generous support from the Overseas Korean Studies and Heritage Foundation (OKSHF), the grant assists scholars in their use of USC Korean Heritage Library’s resources for…
(15 May 2015, Peking University) During 23-24 April 2015, the Conference on the Future of Academic Libraries in China and North America – Discussions Among Library Directors, was held in Peking University (PKU) Library. PKU Library and Harvard University Library jointly organized this conference. Present at the conference were library directors from universities in China…
(15 May 2015) On April 7th, the National Central Library (NCL)’s Director General Shu-hsien Tseng and Deputy Librarian Catriona Cannon from the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, signed a memorandum for a Taiwan Resource Center for Chinese Studies (TRCCS), as well as the MOU on the Union Catalog of Chinese Rare Book database. This TRCCS…
(15 May 2015) The Melbourne Cricket Club (MCC) Library was founded in 1873 and serves as a comprehensive Reference Library for MCC members, their guests and the media on match days and to the general public and researchers by appointment on nonmatch days. The library houses over 200,000 resources relating to national and international cricket,…
(14 May 2015) Since AUNILO’s initiation in the year 2003, it has been organizing its annual meeting and planned activities among the member countries and accomplished a series of initiatives to boost online resource sharing among AUN members. In the 10th AUNILO Meeting in April 2014, the Member Universities have decided to hold a Strategic…
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