(25 January 2015) Student access to specialist non-fiction National Library books will be cut from July in New Zealand. Shocked teachers say they weren’t consulted about the move, expected to hit rural and technology-poor schools hardest. Last year, 16,000 teachers made 40,000 requests for almost a million hard-copy items via the National Library’s curriculum topic support…
(21 January 2015) Cultural Science Journal has published a full report on the KU Pilot project (Vol. 7, No. 2, 2014, ISSN 1836-0416). “Knowledge Unlatched: A Global Library Consortium Model for Funding Open Access Scholarly Books. Full Report on the Proof-of-Concept Pilot 2014” provides information about the Knowledge Unlatched proof-of-concept Pilot, which took place between January…
(29 December 2014) New figures show the rate at which New Zealanders are moving away from books towards digital media. New figures taken by Impact PR from an analysis of data provided by the Companies Office show more book retailers closed in 2013 than in any of the previous 12 years. New figures taken by…
(1 October 2014, Tagbilaran City) As part of its broader support to help improve education in the Philippines, specifically in the province of Bohol, the Australian government partnered with The Asia Foundation to help augment learning resources of public elementary schools in the province’s 47 municipalities and one component city. Australia, through The Asia Foundation’s…
(22 July 2014, Tacloban City) The Asia Foundation’s Books for Asia program, in partnership with the Philippines-Australia Community Assistance Program (PACAP), donated 8,702 books to 11 elementary schools on 18 July in Tacloban City to help address the urgent need of students as they return for the new school year. The turnover activity is part…
(27 May 2014) Students are completing university degrees without reading a single book because of the availability of information on the internet, a leading British academic has warned. Many undergraduates don’t see the point of reading books when they have Wikipedia and SparkNotes at their fingertips. Read the story by Graeme Paton in the The…
(17 March 2014) Providing people in developing countries with access to books, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, 2-4 June 2014. The power of books to inspire, promote beneficial movements, and transform societies is widely acknowledged. The conference will address intertwined challenges of publishing for under served populations: content delivery and business models. The forum will…
(14 January 2014) How many books and DVDs can your higher degree students borrow? 30, 40? How about staff? The librarians at La Trobe University, Australia, have increased the number and time for borrowing. The new numbers are here.
Duke University’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain has posted an analysis of which books would have entered the public domain on 1 January 2014 if the maximum copyright term remained at 56 years. The change to 70 years protection from the death of the author became effective in 1978 due to the…
(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…
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