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The answer to everything: 4.2

How will we transfer knowledge digitally in the future? Which business models will play a role? What will the library of the future look like? And what is the “Weltmaschine” doing at the Book Fair? You’ll find answers to these questions in Hall 4.2 – the marketplace for science, specialist publishers, librarians and information professionals. [...]

TED Talks: A next-generation digital book by Mike Matas

University of British Columbia Launches Haivision CoolSign Digital Signage Network Campus-Wide

Haivision Network Video, a provider of the most advanced video networking, digital signage and IP video distribution solutions, recently announced that the University of British Columbia (UBC) has made its CoolSign-powered digital signage network available to communicate information to students, staff and visitors at UBC’s Point Grey and Robson Square campuses. Plans are also underway [...]

Algeria launches Maghreb Digital Library

Algeria launched the Maghreb Digital Library on Sunday (January 23rd) in an effort to expand access to information. The initiative was part of a joint endeavour between the Algerian Ministry of Higher Education and US-based NGO Civilian Research & Development Foundation (CRDF). The digital library was the “first fruit” of co-operation between Algeria and the [...]

Saudi higher education: The National Center of E-learning and Distance Learning

The National Center of E-learning and Distance Learning guides the various efforts of Saudi higher education institutions to develop digital content, enrich the curricula and facilitate learning to achieve excellence in the educational process as a whole. For those services to be implemented and provided, it was essential to create a main stream to communicate [...]

Live from Tokyo: The new context confrence by DG

Streaming started thursday at: 00:30 GMT. We are waiting for the recorded version.

US funded Digital Library soon to connect North African academic, research institutions

A project funded by the U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation aiming at connecting Tunisian, Moroccan, and Libyan universities and scientific institutions to a “digital library”, will soon be launched...

In defence of the book and other thoughts on the digitalization of knowledge

We would like to share with you this interesting post from tonybates.ca: I have been struggling with the concept of books and publishing for some time now. I have authored over 10 books published ‘traditionally’, i.e. through a commercial publisher, and have just completed a manuscript on ‘The strategic management of technology in universities and [...]