Monthly Archive for January, 2015

Another Big Question: International collaboration in academic library development – an empowering or impoverishing situation?

In James G Neal’s “Big Questions”-blogpost he points out that collaboration will be one of the important ways of achieving and maintaining success for academic libraries in the near future. In a time of austerity and reduced budgets for academic libraries worldwide, collaboration designed and planned around getting more services […]

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Call for papers: Academic & Research Libraries’ Satellite – “The quest for deeper meaning of research support”

We invite you to submit a proposal for the first day of the satellite meeting of IFLA’s Academic and Research Libraries’ Section to be held in Cape Town South Africa 13-14 August 2015. The meeting will be held at the delightful “The Range” – a wine farm in Tokai, Cape […]

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ARL Attendance Grant competition for IFLA Congress in Cape Town

The Academic and Research Libraries Section (ARL), with generous sponsorship by Ex Libris and Sage, is offering THREE (3) Attendance Grants for the IFLA Congress in Cape Town 2015 to an information professional from each of these regions: Africa Latin America Asia/Pacific region Each grant covers the registration fee of […]

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