(29 September 2014) The Special Libraries Association, SLA, and its Asian membership is holding its 4th meeting in Seoul. The 4th International Conference of Asian Special Libraries “Creating the New Values beyond the Library” meets at the National Assembly Library, Seoul, Korea, 22-24 April 2015. The conference website is calling for papers as well as…
(25 September 2014, Washington) The U.S. Department of Commerce’s United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) today announced a major expansion of cooperation in classification activities between the USPTO and KIPO. The agreement, signed by the heads of the two offices during a bilateral meeting in Geneva, Switzerland,…
(7 August 2014) It is the first of its kind. The library is open 24 hours a day, carrying over 200,000 donated books. A wide selection of texts, ranging from literature, science, and arts to humanities welcomes people of all ages. Located in the heart of Paju Book City, a publishing community that creates, publishes…
(28 July 2014) The latest release of new STN delivers three new full text patent databases. Providing coverage for the Republic of Korea, KRFULL is the first STN database available exclusively on the new STN platform. Other new databases include AUPATFULL (Australia) and GBFULL (United Kingdom). Additional highlights in the July release include: Enhanced precision and coverage…
(21 May 2014) UC San Diego Library is hiring a subject librarian for Korean and Japanese Studies to develop and implement liaison services to the students and faculty working in these areas in the Division of Arts & Humanities and the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS). The Korean and Japanese Studies Librarian…
(11 March 2014) The London Book Fair, in partnership with The Publishers Association (PA), and the Korean Publishers Association has announced the Korea Market Focus Professional Programme for The London Book Fair 8-10 April 2014 The Professional Programme provides an insight into the Korean publishing industry for international visitors and exhibitors. There are four key…
(19 March 2014) Seven of Korea’s oldest newspapers have been made available to the public in an online archive run by the National Library of Korea, the state-run library said Wednesday. “A digital archive of old newspapers published from 1939-1949 is now searchable online,” it said in a press release. Read the story by Lee…
(16 December 2013) The Korean American Digital Archive has added many vintage photographs and texts to the archives. The former includes a pottery peddler in Seoul, shops and traders in Seoul and Yun Ung-nyol’s house. Visit the archive at the University of Southern California, here.
Keep up to date with what’s happening in libraries in the region. If you have a conference to announce, please send its details to [email protected]. A searchable version of this list which includes conferences held in the past ten years is here. 2025 March 2025 ICLIS-2025 will be held 14-15 March 2025 in Jakarta, Indonesia.…
The Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI) and IOP Publishing (IOP) have signed a memorandum of understanding on a new strategic collaboration for the provision and dissemination of scientific research. As a result of this partnership Korean researchers will get access to over 400,000 articles in the IOP Journal Archive, the definitive electronic…
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