(7 May 2014) This presentation on Library 2.0 explores the challenges and opportunities of the new app WeChat to support students’ research and reference services in a global network university. WeChat is a mobile text and voice messaging communication service developed in China. It was released in 2011 and currently has over 355 million users.…
(8 May 2014) The Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) and the Australian Society of Authors (ASA) have announced 2014 CAUL and ASA Fellowships. The Fellowships have been made possible through the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund. CAUL and the ASA expect to award one fellowship with a value of up to AUD10,000 in 2014. In subsequent…
(6 May 2014, Boston) The Elsevier Foundation is seeking new grant proposals for the 2014 New Scholars and Innovative Libraries in Developing Countries programs. The deadline for applications is June 17 2014. Grants will be awarded in December 2014 and provide one, two or three year awards between US$ 5,000 to US$ 50,000 per year…
(6 May 2014) Last week, the World Intellectual Property Organization copyright committee ended without agreement on the conclusions of the meeting or its future work, to the dismay of librarians and archivists associations. During the week, numerous representatives of these communities gave vigorous accounts of why a treaty is vital to grant them exceptions to…
(6 May 2014) Discussions by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright & Related Rights (SCCR) broke down in the early hours of Saturday morning 3 May, after the European Union (EU) attempted to block future discussion of copyright laws to aid libraries and archives fulfill their missions in the digital environment.…
(3 May 2014) The original 1862 manuscript of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables, a French national treasure, is leaving Europe for the first time to be exhibited exclusively at the State Library of Victoria, Australia, Minister for the Arts Heidi Victoria announced today. The 945 page volume will leave the Bibliothèque nationale de France to be…
(3 May 2014) UPT. Perpustakaan Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, Indonesia sedang mengembangkan layanan koleksi akses kecepatan untuk mahasiswa dan fakultas. Perpustakaan ini sekarang menyediakan fasilitas pencarian terbaru dengan mengintegrasikan OPAC dan Repositori Akses Terbuka dengan menggunakan kecanggihan teknologi Google. Fasilitas ini menyelesaikan masalah penurunan kecepatan pencarian koleksi dari berbagai perpustakaan di dunia yang sudah sampai mencapai…
(3 May 2014) The Central Library of Syiah Kuala University in Indonesia’s Aceh province is developing its open access service for students and faculty. In particular, the library is facilitating searching by integrating its opac and repository using the power of Google technology. This solved a pressing problem of declining search performance as the number…
(30 April 2014, Ann Arbor, MI) Korean Education and Research Information Service (KERIS), a consortium with 300 members, expands its holdings of scholarly periodicals from ProQuest. Periodicals Archive Online connects researchers to a rich digital archive of leading historical periodicals, spanning more than two centuries of scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. The ability…
(1 May 2014) From today it is possible to reproduce digital content from the NDL website indicated as copyright-expired, without any submission procedure. For more details, please refer to NDL’s English language site policy. Read the announcement here.
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