5 July 2023, 15.00-16.30 CET(2pm-3.30pm BST) Webinar hosted by Gold Leaf, sponsored by De Gruyter Academic librarians by nature and profession tend to be thrifty and environmentally aware. For decades, they have been the inspiration for many micro environmental initiatives. When in 2015 the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development was adopted by all United NationsContinueContinue reading “Creating a better World! How academic librarians are tackling SDGs”
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Free the Books! The Path towards Open Access Monographs
30th March 2023, 2.30pm-4.15pm BST (15.30-17.15 CET) Webinar hosted by Gold Leaf, sponsored by De Gruyter We would like to invite our readers to the new 2023 webinar series “Challenging the Status Quo: Taking Libraries into the Future”, run by Gold Leaf and sponsored by De Gruyter. This webinar explores the knotty world of OpenContinueContinue reading “Free the Books! The Path towards Open Access Monographs”
Librarians: the quiet and unsung professionals battling Covid every day
We have heard a great deal about front line workers this year – nurses and doctors and all those working for the NHS and its counterpart national and medical organisations throughout the world; teachers; members of the armed forces; delivery men; and those who toil at jobs in retail when they’re allowed to go toContinueContinue reading “Librarians: the quiet and unsung professionals battling Covid every day”
Learning from Libraries – an interview with Roxanne Missingham
Roxanne Missingham, University Librarian and the Australian National University (ANU) describes what it means to her to be a librarian Tell us a bit about your career. Did you always want to be a librarian? Where was your first job? Where did you get your library qualification? My mother says that I wanted to beContinueContinue reading “Learning from Libraries – an interview with Roxanne Missingham”
Mrs Lee Cheng Ean: a profile
I first met Mrs Lee Cheng Ean in January 2013 at dual advisory board meetings which I facilitated in Shanghai and Beijing, but her reputation long preceded that. She is extremely well-known in both the East and the West as one of the world’s most competent and inspired librarians. I have since met her atContinueContinue reading “Mrs Lee Cheng Ean: a profile”
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