Category Archives: Libraries

BiblioTech – the First Bookless Public Library in Texas

Posted on April 26, 2013 by

Come Fall 2013, a new library will be opened in Bexar County, Texas, providing visitors with a bank of e-Readers for borrowing e-books … obviously books of the traditional paper variety will be glaringly absent.  This project marks the first … Continue reading →

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View our Flickr updates

Posted on April 16, 2013 by

Keep up to date with our daily activities in images. We regularly update our Flickr with images of daily Civica LLD life in Australia and Singapore. http://www.flickr.com/photos/civicalld/

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<3 Teacher Librarians!

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‘Green’ Library in a ‘Cube’

Posted on February 20, 2013 by

The new University of Aberdeen Library was designed by Danish architects schmidt hammer lassen, to provide a 21st century learning and research environment for students, University staff, visitors and the public. It conceptualizes the shape of a cube evoking the … Continue reading →

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Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI)

Posted on January 22, 2013 by

Have you heard about the Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI)? This is a project which was launched in June 2011, co-led by the Association of Educational Publishers (AEP) and the Creative Commons and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and … Continue reading →

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Social Media Statistics for 2012

Posted on January 1, 2013 by

Can you survive without Facebook, Twitter, Youtube or Google?  I bet not, especially with Google and Youtube.  Although as librarians, we have always been advocating to our users and students that Google is not the “almighty” search engine and placing … Continue reading →

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The World’s Largest Book Publisher

Posted on December 24, 2012 by

With just seven days counting down to the end of 2012, the biggest news for 2012 in the publishing world has got to be the merger deal between Penguin and Random House. See article. Pending the regulatory approval and closure … Continue reading →

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Amazon’s Warehouse – the ‘Chaotic Storage’ approach

Posted on December 20, 2012 by

‘Ordered’ chaos As the world’s largest online retailer, Amazon needs somewhere to put all of those products. The solution? Giant warehouses. Eighty to be exact. Strategically located near key shipping hubs around the world. The warehouses themselves are massive, with some over … Continue reading →

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Younger Americans’ Reading and Library Habits

Posted on November 20, 2012 by

The Pew Research Center, released the findings of a recent survey on Americans last month as part of a study on how e-books may have change the reading landscape and libraries among Americans ages 16 and older. This report on … Continue reading →

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Free Webinar – A Roadmap to Efficiently Producing Multi-format/Multi-Screen eBooks

Posted on October 30, 2012 by

A Roadmap to Efficiently Producing Multi-format/Multi-Screen eBooks Webinar Date(8 November, 2012 [2:00 pm Eastern/11:00 Pacific] Hear first hand from the publishing experts on why a single-source, multi-channel approach is the the way to go for the e-publishing industry.

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