Feedback on the LIANZA Strategic Plan
(10 September 2013) LIANZA has posted a summary on its website of the feedback it received on its Strategic Plan. The themes include leadership, collaboration, governance and advocacy. Read more here.
(10 September 2013) LIANZA has posted a summary on its website of the feedback it received on its Strategic Plan. The themes include leadership, collaboration, governance and advocacy. Read more here.
(TNN 3 September) The Zila Rajkiya Library in Chunniganj, Kanpur, India, is about to be renovated as a “global library” with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The Times of India has the story.
(29 August 2013) Beyond Access has announced a new partnership with the City Government of Davao, Philippines and the Davao City Library to support the City Government in its efforts to transform its libraries into centers for economic opportunity. After attending the Beyond Access 2012 conference, the Davao City Library hosted a series of public…
(30 August 2013) Illustrations of the Reports of General MacArthur have been added to the NDL Digitized Contents. They consist of maps, photographs and paintings from the Reports of General MacArthur. The original materials are owned by the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Five items (about 500 images) of digitized contents from the Illustrations…
(22 August 2013) The Research and Legislative Reference Bureau of Japan’s National Diet Library conducts cross-sectoral research on important political issues. Research Material “Japan-US Relations Reconsidered” is the result of the research conducted from 2012 to 2013 to analyze Japan-US relations in the context of the international situation in the Asia Pacific region which faces…
(22 August 2013) Futuregov reports that The National Library Board (NLB) of Singapore used analytics to improve accuracy in forecasting patrons’ demand by 60 per cent, reducing waiting time for popular books and frequency of patrons not being able to find the book they want. The story is here.
(13 August 2013) Join the Library History SIG at IFLA WLIC 2013 for papers and discussion of the development of libraries and librarianship in Asia, 21 August 2013, 09:30 – 11:30 am. The list of papers is here.
An IFLA Public Talk by by Dr. Ismail Serageldin, Director of the Library of Alexandria, Vice President of the Institut d’Egypte (Egyptian Academy of Science). The Great Library of Alexandria was the most famous library in Classical Antiquity, flourishing as a major hub of scholarship in the Ptolemaic Dynasty. Rooted in a similar tradition, the…
By K.T. Lam (* First published in ACCESS: Asia’s Newspaper on Electronic Information Products & Services, No.82, September 2012) The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has recently launched the Scholarly Publications Portal (http://spfind.ust.hk), providing a one-stop platform for researchers and information seekers to discover the wealth of research output produced by HKUST researchers.…
(12 August 2013, by spolanka) Ellyssa Kroski, Director of Information Technology at the New York Law Institute and the blogger for OEDb’s iLibrarian, has developed a list of 68 essential resources about eBooks in libraries. Organised into broad categories including eBooks and libraries, eBook purchasing and eBook collections, browse the resources here.
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