MORE 'NATIONAL-LIBRARIES' POSTS
Egypt's National Library Seeks to Improve Access to Information
| Archives and Special Collections, Libraries, National Libraries
From Ahram Online: The National Library and Archives (NLA) recently announced plans to modernise the administration of the Egyptian National Library and improve access to information countrywide. [Clip] Firstly, the NLA aims to bring all of Egypt’s libraries under the National Library’s umbrella within a four-year period, along with standardising regulations governing all library operations. […]
New Digitization Project: World War One in Pictures, Letters and Memories
| Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Journal Articles, Libraries, Maps, National Libraries, News
A new digitization project from Europeana. From Europeana: Europeana Collections 1914-1918 will create by 2014 – the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War – a substantial digital collection of material from national libraries and other partners from eight countries that found themselves on different sides of the historic conflict. [Clip] The First […]
National Library of South Africa & 15 South African Academic Libraries Choose WorldCat Local
| Academic Libraries, Libraries, National Libraries, News, Patrons and Users
Via Library Technology Guides: The National Library of South Africa and 15 of the country’s most prestigious academic institutions choose WorldCat Local OCLC and Sabinet, OCLC’s partner in South Africa, have signed an agreement to provide WorldCat Local, OCLC’s discovery service, as a single point of access and delivery of electronic, print and digital resources […]
From the Times Higher Ed. Supplement: Ms [Maja] Maricevic sees her role as helping the British Library “effectively underpin the UK research infrastructure at the time when we need to optimise all available resources” and forging new alliances with senior university librarians. Among the initiatives she hopes to build on are the Electronic Thesis Online […]
The Conference of Directors of National Libraries Presents Country Reports About Recent Events at 25 National Libraries
| Archives and Special Collections, Libraries, National Libraries, Reports
The Conference of Directors of National Libraries compiles reports from national libraries around the world. Below, direct links to the most recent reports from 25 national libraries and the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. The reports are organized into the following sections: GENERAL OVERVIEW of RECENT MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS RELATIONSHIP TO GOVERNMENT KEY FACTS AND FIGURES […]
The NLI Blog from the National Library of Ireland Debuts
| Digital Collections, Funding, Interactive Tools, Libraries, National Libraries
Congrats to everyone at the National Library of Ireland on the debut of your new blog. The first post was written by by Fiona Ross, the Director of the NLI. She writes: The National Library of Ireland was established in 1877 and the doors of our magnificent building on Kildare Street were first opened to […]
Report: "Venezuela's National Library as the Nucleus of a National Library System (IABNSB) in the 20th Century and Its Gradual Dismantling in the 21st Century
| Associations and Organizations, Libraries, National Libraries, Reports
Here’s a new “Spotlight” report from IFLA’s FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression). Direct to: “Venezuela’s National Library as the Nucleus of a National Library System (IABNSB) in the 20th century and its gradual dismantling in the 21st century” by Anabel Torres, a poet, writer, translator and interpreter in […]
Library and Archives Canada: 2011-2012 Report on Plans and Priorities
| Archives and Special Collections, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users
Full Text Report From Section One of the Report: LAC and similar memory institutions in Canada, such as archives and libraries, are asking hard questions about what documentary heritage we should acquire, preserve and make available—not just for present-day users but for people in 50 or 100 years who want to understand the Canada of […]
UK: BFI and British Library Join Forces to Increase Access to Their Unique Collections
| Archives and Special Collections, Journal Articles, Libraries, Management and Leadership, National Libraries, Preservation, Resources
From a British Library Announcement: The BFI [British Film Institute] and the British Library have today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), with the objective of increasing public, professional and research access to audiovisual and broadcast content and integrating it with other knowledge collections. Signed by BFI Director, Amanda Nevill and British Library CEO, Dame […]
From China Daily (via Asia One): Users can search the site, which is based on NLC’s trove of ancient books, for information about 500 surnames in different locations, including genealogical documents and charts, lists of well-known people in history and relationships with other families in the same place. The latest records that can be found […]
