Be a school librarian in Asia
(23 October 2017) International schools always need librarians. Currently, schools in Taiwan, China, Japan, Vietnam and Myanmar are hiring. TIE Online has the list of vacancies here.
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World’s largest library on Indonesia opens in Europe
(23 October 2017) Queen Máxima of the Netherlands inaugurated in Leiden last week the Asian Library, which houses the world’s largest collection on Indonesia, including two United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) heritage documents. “Leiden University has created one of the foremost Asian libraries and a major international center for the study of Asia,”…
CONSAL XVII website opens for visitors
(23 October 2017) The 17th Congress of Southeast Asian Librarians takes place 2-5 May 2018 in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. Visit the Congress website.
Hangzhou Library Urbanology Branch is established at Cangqian
(20 October 2017) Hangzhou Library Urbanology Branch is the first special library in China focusing on urbanology. With a collection of 130,000 books, it provides a series of services, including literature search, selection, collection, exhibition, borrowing and retrieval, for books with the theme of “city and urbanology”. Hangzhou.com.cn has the story.
CUHK hiring Learning Services Manager
(21 October 2017) Learning Services at the Chinese University of Hong Kong Library encompasses the digital/information literacy training and support services for undergraduates and other users at CUHK. It is also responsible for the Learning Garden, a highly innovative space which provides facilities to support informal learning activities as well specific services such as 3D…
Retirement wave to hit academic librarianship
(19 October 2017) Like other greying professions, demographic data for ARL libraries warn us of a breaking wave of retirements, but may paint an unrealistic picture of what the beach will look like after the surf has settled. Read the article by Phil Davis in The Scholarly Kitchen.
Jisc content and digitisation
Digital archival collections – group purchasing pilot one – outcomes and next steps (20 October 2017) Between March and July 2017 Jisc ran the ‘Digital archival collections group purchasing pilot’ in collaboration with three publishers (Adam Matthew Digital, Brill and ProQuest) in order to make digital collections of primary source material more affordable for institutions to purchase,…
EIFL OA workshops in Myanmar
(19 October 2017) EIFL will host workshops for open access (OA) working groups and librarians from three Myanmar universities that are adopting OA policies and setting up OA institutional repositories. The three universities – Yangon University of Economics, Yadanabon University and Yezin Agricultural University – will use the opportunity to finalize OA policy documents, ensure…
eLibrary Myanmar Project
(18 October 2017) There are 158 universities in Myanmar under the Ministry of Education. After years of isolation, their libraries have very limited current print collections. What’s more, until the start of the eLibrary Myanmar project in December 2013, no universities had access to online subscription resources. As a result, research standards and output have been…
Asia’s first short story dispenser arrives at Hong Kong Baptist University Library
(16 October 2017) This past August, Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) Library launched Asia’s first story dispenser. This dispenser is the creation of Short Edition, a publishing startup based in the city of Grenoble, France. The appeal of this cultural innovation is hard to dispute, with hundreds of articles about it being penned since its…
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