(18 June 2015, Bangkok) Minister of Culture Weera Rojpojanarat says the Fine Arts Department is developing facilities and services of the National Library of Thailand and prison libraries nationwide in response to a royal suggestion by HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn. The Princess made her points at the 16th Congress of Southeast Asian Librarians 2015…
(20 June 2015, Pyay, Myanmar) A crowd of children reach for books on a full shelve and start reading their selections on sheets and benches placed in the shade of trees on a school ground. In early April, the “mobile library on wheels,” operated by a local public library, arrived at this elementary school in…
Librarian wins Citizen of Burma Award (23 June 2015) The books, thousands of them, stretch from floor to ceiling. If the librarian thinks not enough people are borrowing them, he will get on his bike and deliver a basketful to readers. There is no charge. In fact, he has been known to pay people to…
(18 June 2015, Denver, CO) Odilo’s global reach and rapid expansion in the United States continues to attract publishers from around the world. Just six months after launching their innovative eBook lending library, Odilo now offers digital content from all of the leading publishers, including frontlist and backlist titles, along with pre-orders. With the addition…
(22 June 2015, Melbourne) Civica Library Solutions, a leader in specialist systems and business process services that help organisations to transform the way they work, announced that the City of Boroondara Library Service in Victoria, Australia, will continue using the Spydus integrated library management system as a managed service. “Civica has had a long and…
(20 June 2015) Michael Kozlowski writes that Libraries in Canada and the United States have been quite enamored with establishing digital collections. But predatory pricing by major publishers are pricing their eBooks almost 500% more than the Kindle edition and libraries have had enough. The simple truth is that there is no uniform landscape of…
(19 June 2015) Leaders from 11 research libraries, national libraries, and nonprofit image repositories from around the world met at the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries’ Weston Library on 15-16 June 2015 to form the International Image Interoperability Framework Consortium. Access to image-based resources is fundamental to research, scholarship and the transmission of cultural knowledge.…
(17 June 2015) Mr Pote Lee, the Chairman of the iGroup, was recently the guest speaker at the 123rd Graduation Ceremony 2015, of the Asian Institute of Technology’s Ph.D. and Master’s degree students. In a warm and engaging speech, Mr Lee talks about his early life in Myanmar, his own graduation from AIT, the guiding…
(10 June 2015) Imagine going to a shop, borrowing anything you like, and returning it when you’re finished. This is the idea behind SHARE: a Library of Things. Opened in late-April in Frome, a town in northeast England, the aim of SHARE is to enable people to spend less, waste less, and connect more. The…
(16 June 2015, Melbourne) Civica Library Solutions, a leader in specialist systems and business process services that help organisations to transform the way they work, is pleased to announce that the Melbourne Library Service in Victoria, Australia, has selected the Spydus10 integrated library management system to replace their existing library solution. Melbourne Library Service has…
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