(13 January 2015) Living Knowledge sets out the British Library’s vision for its future development as it looks ahead to 2023, the year of its 50th anniversary as the national library of the United Kingdom It explains how the Library delivers public value – in custodianship, research, business, culture, learning and international partnership – and…
The Director, Digital Experience and Chief Information Officer will lead, plan, direct and provide strategic advice on the development and management of ICT and Digital environment to meet current and future needs of the State Library. Closing date is 29 January 2015. Details about the position are here.
(5 January 2015) ‘The power of our network’ is the slogan that accompanies the KB Strategic Plan 2015-2018. It is published on the eve of a drastic change, the implementation of the Public Library Provisions System Act (Wsob) on 1 January 2015. Under this act, the KB (National Library of the Netherlands) will play a…
( 8 January 2015) The ARL reports that for the past several years, HathiTrust and five of its member universities have been engaged in litigation after being sued by the Authors Guild. On 6 January 2015, the parties entered a settlement on the sole issue remaining before the district court, ending the litigation in a…
(9 January 2015) Two large banners greet patrons when they walk into Orlando Public Library. Amid posters about the library’s family-friendly services and upcoming programming, the banners urge patrons to do something a bit uncharacteristic for a nearly 100-year-old institution: download an iBeacon app. In November, the library implemented BluuBeam, an Orlando-based service that uses…
(8 January 2015) The Library User Survey which was conducted between 13th and 26th October 2014. Over 1,200 library users had the opportunity to evaluate the performance of the Main Library and the six branch libraries. The survey showed a better performance compared to the 2013 survey. The numbers are crunched here.
(8 January 2015) Following a successful planning phase and launch in April 2013, the Digital Public Library of America is well on its way toward achieving its ambitious goal of bringing together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, museums, and cultural heritage sites, and making them freely available to students, teachers, researchers, and the general…
(7 January 2015) For the third year in a row, Stanford Libraries opens nominations for the Stanford Prize for Innovation in Research Libraries (SPIRL), a prize to recognize and celebrate innovation through programs, projects, and new or improved services that benefits users. The deadline for entries is January 16, 2015. Entries are not limited to…
(6 January 2015, Washington, D.C.) Public policy issues surrounding 3D printers are now coming to the fore as the technology becomes more widely available in America’s libraries and homes. To ensure people are able to use 3D printers responsibly and effectively, librarians must now work towards developing policies in copyright, trademark, privacy, product liability and…
(5 January 2015) The Manifesto was developed by the IFLA Section on Libraries Serving Multicultural Populations (old name) in 2006 and it was endorsed by the IFLA Governing Board and UNESCO in 2008. The primary goal of the Manifesto is to assist libraries throughout the world in developing and advocating for multicultural services. The Manifesto…
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