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What’s New in the Library: December 2011

IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook 2011 Author          : Prof. Stephanie Garelli Publisher       : World Competitiveness Center ISBN    : 9782970051459 Year   : 2011 For over 20 years, the IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook (WCY) has benchmarked the performance of the world’s most competitive economics. In its 2011 edition, the WCY includes 59 economies, extending its coverage in emerging [...]

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Innovation News Daily – From Shelves to Internet: America’s Digital Library Takes Shape

May 27, 2011 | By Jeremy Hsu, InnovationNewsDaily Senior Writer Five-story robots patrol an underground chamber to retrieve books beneath the Mansueto Library at the University of Chicago. It’s a sight that would impress most people, but U.S. librarians and academics have their eyes set on a still more futuristic concept. They want to build [...]

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Flavorwire – The 25 Most Beautiful College Libraries in the World

December 13, 2011 | By Emily Temple The college library, whether ornate or modern, digital or dusty, is in many ways the epicenter of the college experience — at least for some students. It is at once a shining emblem of vast, acquirable knowledge, a place for deep discussions and meetings of the mind, and [...]

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New Books in Perdana Library: August 2011

Southeast Asia in a New Era: Ten Countries, One Region in ASEAN Author : Rodolfo C. Severino Publisher : ISEAS ISBN  : 9789812309570 Year  : 2010 “This book is about Southeast Asia in a new era. This  new era began with a new      century and a new millennium posing great challenges to the region and to [...]

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Workshop on Benchmarking & Best Practices for Libraries and Information Centres

12th – 14th July 2011 Prepared by:      Nurul Nawar Mahshos and Izyan Syazwani Mohamad Benchmarking is not a finite process. It is a continuous, evolving cycle with various distinct phases of planning and implementation. The process does not end at reviewing and recalibrating, but will return to the planning phase for the next iteration, [...]

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