Thank you to our three essay winners who attended the IFLA Congress in Singapore: Saseka Harris, Aditya Nugraha, and Joseph Semugabi. Their reports are now available and hopefully will provide inspiration for essay candidates in 2014! Report from IFLA Congress Singapore 2013 – Aditya Nugraha Report from IFLA Congress Singapore 2013 – Saseka Harris […]
Read moreThe University of Eastern Finland (UEF) started the Training of the trainers (TOT) project in 2011. The aim of this program funded and initiated by the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs (FORMIN), is defined as: The intention of this programme – Higher Education Institutions Institutional Cooperation Instrument (HEI ICI) – is to create a mechanism […]
Read moreColumbia University Libraries/Information Services’ Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning is pleased to announce the launch of two new websites dedicated to the inaugural winning plays of the Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History: Dan O’Brien’s The Body of an American and Robert Schenkkan’s All the Way. The websites showcase the plays’ relationship to United […]
Read moreNEW YORK, October 23, 2013 – The libraries at Columbia University and Cornell University are pleased to announce an 18-month, $150,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to conduct a project intended to expand significantly the preservation coverage of e-journals and to implement strategies that will sustain the initiative beyond the duration of the project. […]
Read moreApplications for the fourth intake of this exciting Master’s program in Information Technology for university librarians and LIS faculty in Sub-Saharan Africa are now open. The Department of Information Science at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, received a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to establish a Master’s program in IT for […]
Read moreThe papers from the joint session of the Knowledge Management SC and Academic & Research Libraries SC held at Singapore are now available from IFLA’s library. Relevant papers are: CALTER, Mariellen (2013) MOOCs and the library: engaging with evolving pedagogy. Paper presented at: IFLA World Library and Information Congress, 17 – 23 August 2013, Singapore. CHEN, Joyce Chao-chen (2013) Opportunities […]
Read moreAt the IFLA Congress in Singapore, the ARL Standing Committee elected new office bearers: Vicki McDonald (Chair/Treasurer), Mimi Calter (Secretary) and Janet Fletcher (Information Coordinator, including editor of this blog). In Singapore we also welcomed our new members to the Committee and said thank you to retiring members. Fortunately our retiring members became corresponding members […]
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