(9 June 2016) The four-year project to transform the library was one of 100 building projects from around the world to be considered for this highly-prized title. The announcement was made at a special ceremony in London last night where the library, which is part of the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries, was in the…
(9 June 2016) Applications are invited for the appointment of Head, Law Library, in SMU Libraries, Singapore Management University.This is a senior position responsible for leading the Kwa Geok Choo Law Library services. The position holder will coordinate research, information and learning support services to the School of Law as well as the entire Singapore…
(7 June 2016) Cybrarian Ventures is looking to hire an experienced Librarian to operate the Republic Polytechnic Library. Republic Polytechnic (RP) Library is dedicated to the provision of services, collections, technology and facilities in order to meet the information-related needs of the RP community. The operations and management of the Library is by Cybrarian Ventures…
(2 June 2016) A*STAR’s Institute for Infocomm Research is designing robots that can relieve librarians of many menial tasks, while enhancing searching and sorting of books. Their latest project is an autonomous robotic shelf scanning (AuRoSS) platform that can self-navigate through libraries at night, scanning RFID tags to produce reports on missing and out-of-sequence books.…
(7 June 2016, Hong Kong) Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, is pleased to announce that the Joint University Librarians Advisory Committee (JULAC) has selected the Ex Libris Alma® resource management service and Primo® discovery and delivery solution. The Hong Kong consortium of eight academic libraries will use Alma and Primo solutions to enable a shared…
(2 June 2016) Computer systems have helped catalogue libraries for decades, but if some reckless reader has put a book back in the wrong spot, it’s a daunting task for librarians to search the entire building for it – but not for robotic librarians. Researchers at Singapore’s A*STAR’s Institute for Infocomm Research are designing robots…
(3 June 2016) UNSW Library is seeking a highly motivated person with experience in a scholarly communication or research environment to join its Library Repository Services team. As Senior Data Librarian you will be responsible for leading digital library projects for managing research publications and data. Your skills in documenting business needs are augmented by a sound…
(4 June 2016) Ming Thein, photographer, finds CUHK’s library to be one of the most interesting spaces he’s had the pleasure of shooting because it manages to be light, airy and open, yet intimate and private to encourage concentration. More than a dozen of his photographs are here.
(3 June 2016) Reporting to the Director of Learning Resources and Assistant Principal Primary and working with the Dean of Studies Primary, the P-6 Teacher-Librarian will work in collaboration with colleague librarians and library staff to provide optimum information management experiences, systems and processes which enhance learning and teaching. Full details are here.
(3 June 2016) Tanzanian President John Magufuli on Thursday laid the foundation stone for the construction of a new library at the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) to be built at a cost of about 40 million U.S. dollars funded by the Chinese government. President Magufuli said the Chinese government’s 100 percent-aided project had…
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