NFAIS webinar to provide annual update on the Google landscape - August 20, 2013
The US' National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) will hold a 90 minute webinar from 11:00am – 12:30pm EDST for its annual update on the Google landscape on September 19, 2013. John Blossom, award-winning industry analyst and President, Shore Communications, Inc, will provide updates on… Read More
British Library and National Library of Singapore partner to digitise Malay manuscripts - August 20, 2013
The British Library has signed an agreement with the National Library Board (NLB) of Singapore to put an extensive range of materials of interest to Singapore online. The agreement was signed by British Library's Chief Executive, Roly Keating, and Elaine Ng, the Chief Executive Officer of… Read More
Research Libraries UK joins The European Library - August 19, 2013
The UK consortium of scholarly libraries, Research Libraries UK (RLUK), has recently joined The European Library, a membership organisation that provides services to researchers, with access to more than 200 million records and digital items from all of Europe's national libraries and a growing number of… Read More
Library and repository communities come together to identify new competencies for academic librarians - August 14, 2013
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL), the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), and the Association of European Research Libraries (LIBER) have announced the launch of a Joint Task Force on Librarians' Competencies in Support of E-Research and Scholarly… Read More
CONTEC Brazil 2013 to focus on ‘Different Ways of Teaching’ - August 8, 2013
The Frankfurt Academy has announced that CONTEC Brazil will return with a focus on the theme 'Different Ways of Teaching' on August 30. The conference, which was launched last year by the Frankfurt Academy – the international conference brand of the Frankfurt Book Fair – will… Read More
Jisc and BiblioLabs partnership brings new approach to sharing mobile content - August 5, 2013
Jisc Collections and BiblioLabs have announced a partnership as a result of which lecturers, learners and researchers across the UK will now gain access to over 14,000 additional full text e-books and thousands of pages of primary source material on their tablets and mobile devices. … Read More
