NFAIS to hold webinar on new platforms for accessing published works - January 4, 2013
The US' National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) will hold a 90-minute webinar on January 18, 2013. The webinar will take a look at Labtiva's ReadCube, a free, cross-platform software application that is being used by Nature Publishing to provide ease of access to a… Read More
Registration open for OCLC meeting in June - January 3, 2013
Library information provider OCLC, US, has announced a meeting for OCLC Research Library Partners. The registration for the event, 'Past Forward! Meeting Stakeholder Needs in 21st Century Special Collections', is open now. The meeting will take place on 3-5 June at Yale University in New Haven,… Read More
Free PLA webinar recording offers tools to build community e-book awareness - December 24, 2012
The Public Library Association (PLA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), has released the free archive recording of the 90-minute webinar, 'E-Book Action: Inform and Inspire Your Community.' Projected as an informative webinar, it is said to offer inspiring case studies and practical tips… Read More
NFAIS announces early bird discounts for Annual Conference in February - December 18, 2012
The US' National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS), US, has announced the early bird discounts for 2013 NFAIS Annual Conference, In Search of Answers: Unlocking New Value from Content. The event will be held from February 24 - 26, 2013 at the historic Hyatt at… Read More
Publishers Weekly and O’Reilly Tools of Change collaborate to launch Author (R)evolution Day conference - December 17, 2012
O'Reilly Media's Tools of Change and Publishers Weekly recently launched a new conference called Author (R)evolution Day aimed at professional authors, content creators, agents and other independent author services providers. This daylong conference-within-a-conference will debut February 12, 2013, during O'Reilly's flagship TOC conference in New York… Read More
ARL to host Ninth Annual Leadership Symposium for master of library and information science - December 13, 2012
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) will host its Ninth Annual Leadership Symposium for master of library and information science (MLIS) students on January 26 and 27, 2013, in Seattle, Washington. The Leadership Symposium curriculum will focus on topics related to the major strategic areas of… Read More
The London Book Fair announces Korea as Market Focus for 2014 - December 12, 2012
The London Book Fair and The Korean Publishers Association have announced Korea as the Market Focus of The London Book Fair 2014. The launch event at Asia House was attended by The London Book Fair, The Korean Publishers Association and LBF Market Focus strategic partners, the… Read More
ACRL seeks new presenters for ‘Standards for Libraries in Higher Education’ workshop - November 28, 2012
The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) is accepting applications from prospective new presenters for the workshop 'Planning, Assessing, and Communicating Library Impact: Putting the Standards for Libraries in Higher Education into Action.' The day-long workshop is led by one or two expert presenters at… Read More
Thomson Reuters hosts inaugural Techstreet Standards Publishers Innovation Forum - November 21, 2012
Leaders from the standards publishing industry convened November 9th in Alexandria, Virginia, for the inaugural Standards Publishers Innovation Forum (SPIF), presented by Techstreet, part of the Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters. Representatives from ASTM International, American Petroleum Institute, IEEE Standards Association and elsewhere… Read More
Experts examine complex issues, explain OA at Open Access Africa - November 21, 2012
Open access (OA) publisher BioMed Central had organised the third Open Access Africa conference at the University of Cape Town (UCT) last week. This was followed by the Berlin10 open access meeting at the University of Stellenbosch. Jonathan Harle of the Association of Commonwealth Universities has… Read More
