(14 August 2014) Sydney University library staff have been told they will be made redundant by the new system that will focus on a digital platform as well as the extension of opening hours. The planned cuts will affect 156 staff in total. Altmedia.net has the story.
(11 August 2014) The South China Morning Post reports on the growing space crunch in Hong Kong’s university libraries and what one librarian is doing about it. The story by Linda Yeung is here.
(11 August 2014) A two day workshop on creating and managing a library consortium, and licensing eResources, will be held at the National Library in Malé, capital of the Maldives, on 22nd and 23rd of September. Convened by Fathimath Shiham, EIFL Country Coordinator and deputy director of the National Library, the workshop will be gathering…
(12 August 2014) The EIFL Public Library Innovation Award for services contributing to education of children and adults is now open. This call for applications is open to public and community libraries in developing and transition countries that use information and communication technology (ICT) in creative ways to contribute to education of children or adults.…
(11 August 2014, Emeryville, CA) Innovative announced today that Chulalongkorn University, Khon Kaen University, King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok, and Mahidol University have all selected the Sierra Library Services Platform. They will migrate from Innovative’s Millennium ILS.
(7 August 2014) It is the first of its kind. The library is open 24 hours a day, carrying over 200,000 donated books. A wide selection of texts, ranging from literature, science, and arts to humanities welcomes people of all ages. Located in the heart of Paju Book City, a publishing community that creates, publishes…
(4 August 2014, Singapore) The National Library Board (NLB) will keep separate the team that selects books for acquisition, and the team that reviews the books, Dr Yaacob Ibrahim said in Parliament recently as reported by The Straits Times. Dr. Yaacob was speaking in the aftermath of the National Library Board’s banning of three children’s…
(21 July 2014) Facing declining visitors and uncertainty about what to do about it, library administrators in the new town of Almere in the Netherlands did something extraordinary. They redesigned their public libraries based on the changing needs and desires of library users and, in 2010, opened the Nieuwe Bibliotheek (New Library), a thriving community hub…
(29 July 2014) The Southeast Asia Library Group’s annual meeting took place on 27-28 June in Frankfurt, Germany, in collaboration with Goethe University Library. There were participants from nine countries. Eleven papers were presented covering various areas of Southeast Asian librarianship, including manuscript studies and conservation, special collections and the use of primary sources, old…
(28 July 2014, Canberra) The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA), the peak body for libraries, has expressed concern regarding a media report about the potential for department libraries in the public service to be outsourced. The Canberra Times has today published a story online: ‘Government librarians urged to lobby for jobs in face of…
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