(21 December 2013) On 29 August, a press conference for the launch of the National Animation Public Material Library was held in Tianjin Binghai International Convention Center. The National Animation Public Material Library is a multifunctional national material resource sharing platform, hosted by the Inter-Ministerial Joint Office for the Growth of the Animation Industry and…
11 December 2013) On 6 September , a Reading Promotion Activity themed “A Million People Studying through the Internet” was launched in Guizhou Library which was jointly hosted by Guizhou Provincial Leading Group for the Promotion of Scientific Knowledge among the Public and the National Library of China (NLC), and undertaken by Guizhou Library. Zunyi…
(20 December 2013) Online access is now available to the descriptive Catalogue of Books Printed in the Fifteenth Century now in the Bodleian Library (Bod-Inc). The printed catalogue was published in 2005 by Oxford University Press. This online resource is accessible at: http://incunables.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/. The project to produce the printed catalogue of 15th-century books in the Bodleian Libraries…
(18 December 2013, IFLA) Today, on the third day of negotiations at the 26th meeting of the Standing Committee on Copyright & Related Rights (SCCR) at WIPO headquarters in Geneva, discussions regarding copyright exceptions and limitations for libraries and archives are getting underway. A number of countries including Brazil, Tunisia, Iran, Guatemala, Trinidad and Tobago…
(17 December 2013) ARL has published Library Management of Disciplinary Repositories, SPEC Kit 338, which examines the ways in which research libraries are involved in the administration of disciplinary repositories. This SPEC Kit explores the disciplinary scope of the repository, collection policies, funding models, assessment practices, and staffing, among other information. The SPEC Kit presents…
(17 December 2013) The School Libraries Section of IFLA invites submission of proposals for papers (including case studies) about school library advocacy initiatives. The papers will be presented at a two-hour session in Lyon WLIC 2014; the language of the session will be English. The announcement is on the IFLA website.
(17 December 2013) LISNews has published a letter from the librarian of Eastern Samar State University Guiuan Campus whose library was devastated by the recent super typhoon. If you’d like to help get this library back on its feet, the letter tells you how. Read it here.
(16 December 2013) These two short videos look at the advantages of using eBooks from the perspective of the library and academic staff. The announcement with a link to the videos is here.
CR&L November 2013, 74 (6) carries an article by Graham Stone and Bryony Ramsden examining the relationship between use of the library and the academic achievement of students. This is a Jisc funded project. Read the abstract and link to the full text here.
(12 December 2013) The British Library has released over a million images onto Flickr Commons for anyone to use, remix and repurpose. These images were taken from the pages of 17th, 18th and 19th century books digitised by Microsoft who then generously gifted the scanned images to the BL, allowing them to be released into the Public Domain.…
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