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Rescooped by Karen du Toit from What interests a web & tech geek MedLib? DIGICMB onto The Information Professional |
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UK Organization Publishes Research Into Public Library of the Future | LJ INFOdocket |
Creation, consumption, and the library, by Lane Wilkinson |
Is a paperless library still a library? - Discussion |
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UNESCO describes the theme as a specific focus on books and translation this year: "23 April is a symbolic date for world literature for on this date in 1616, Cervantes, Shakespeare and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega all died. It is also the date of birth or death of other prominent authors such as Maurice Druon, Haldor K.Laxness, Vladimir Nabokov, Josep Pla and Manuel Mejía Vallejo. Delete the scoop?
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UNESCO declared October 27 as the World Day for AV Heritage to raise awareness of the significance of AV documents and to draw attention to the need to safeguard them. Every year, activities are organized by different institutions worldwide around a theme to drum up interest in the event. See here for a message from Mr Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO. The main World Day for AV Heritage Site lists many 2011 events worldwide:
This page lists some of the events being organised by IASA members to mark the day in 2011. Delete the scoop?
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"The Global Open Access Portal (GOAP), aiming at presenting a top level view of Open Access to scientific information, was launched at a special side event organized during the UNESCO General Conference, on Tuesday 1 November 2011, at Paris Headquarters. The portal has country reports from over 148 countries with weblinks to over 2000 initiatives/projects in Member States. The GOAP is a knowledge portal that has the following features:
Country-wise distilled knowledge on the status of Open Access Key organizations engaged in OA in Member States Thematic focus areas of OA Important publications on OA coming from different regions of the world Critical assessment of major barriers to OA in each country Potential of OA in UNESCO Member States Funding and deposit mandates Links to OA initiatives in the world Delete the scoop?
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This sounds similar to what the University of Chicago has done. The library of the future better have a big budget.