Chinese Canadian Library Weblog

The new Chinese regulations will come to place on July 1st. Among them, the following one is related to our on-going collaboration with librarians in China. Non-profit libraries have the right to provide electronic format of the publications to their users on the web if they are more than three years old. So far only […]

The minutes and the group photo are posted. Please click to view. Theme: Chinese Canadian Library Weblog – first meeting Meeting: Asian Library Seminar Room 506 Time: May 20, 2006 3-6 pm Attendance: Beibei Zhang, Jan Fu, Heather Cai, Henian E, Ian Song, Jian Wang, Linda Yan, Mindy Tong, Qi Huang, Xiaomeng Zhang, Ying Zhang, […]

Collecting and preserving information on the Internet have always remained a daunting task for librarians. The massive and ephemeral nature of Internet has made it extremely difficult(if not impossible) to archive the information mounted on billions of websites. The good news is, the Library of Congress(LOC) has launched a new project “Web Capture” to attain […]

17 of us attended, very positive feedbacks! The minutes will be posted this Saturday!

ACRL is proud to announce four new translations of the Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education including the Chinese Translation.

China and India – already braced to become two of the world’s greatest economic powers – are now expected to become two of its most important academic powerhouses. The British Library – renowned for collecting books, journals and artefacts from across the globe – is set to shift its focus from Western Europe towards China […]

Hong Kong-based philanthropist Dr. Simon K.Y. Lee has pledged $4 million Cdn to build an international student residence and cultural centre at The University of British Columbia’s Vancouver campus that will increase academic and research partnerships and bring together two of the top-rated universities in the world. More

The blog has grown to 40 members, including eight from Japan and seven from China as well as others from Europe, South Korea and the United States, who are allowed to leave posts. Van Ness said he knew of no other blog dedicated to Sino-Japanese ties. ….

UBC’s annual Town Hall happens this year on Thursday, June 22, at the Life Sciences Centre. It’s a great way to learn about and discuss exciting e-iniatives around campus – and it’s all free! The Library is presenting a seminar on ‘Open Access and Scholarly Communication’ and doing a poster presentation on ‘Building Communities at […]

Beibei was the first one replied and picked the date. Let’s try to gather at Asian Library UBC on May 20th. Beibei will invite her boss and other colleagues from VPL.