• Revealing the invisible heritage of Panjab

    Updated: 2010-08-31 07:45:08
    A searchable collection of millions of rare pages on Sikhs and the Panjab has been published online. The Panjab Digital Library (PDL) includes texts of manuscripts, books, magazines, newspapers and photographs and is available to anyone with internet access here. This launch was made possible in part by the Nanakshahi Trust and the Sikh Research [...]

  • More than a million Asian books going online

    Updated: 2010-08-31 07:31:20
    The JoongAng Daily quoting the 12 May issue of Asahi Shimbun has reported that Korea, Japan and China will launch an online library with content from their national libraries. Users will be able to read books in each language, search text, and reportedly read content in their mother tongues courtesy of an automatic translation system. Currently, the [...]

  • New journal: Journal of Investigative and Clinical Dentistry (JICD)

    Updated: 2010-08-30 09:57:50
      Professor Lakshman Samaranayke, Dean and Chair Professor of Oral Microbiology at the HKU Faculty of Dentistry has been appointed the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Investigative and Clinical Dentistry (JICD).   JICD publishes quality, peer reviewed original research and topical reviews on all aspects of investigative and clinical dentistry and craniofacial research, including molecular studies related to [...]

  • Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) Now Available Free Online

    Updated: 2010-08-27 07:20:03
    The Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) is now available free of charge on the Getty Website at http://library.getty.edu/bha. The database search includes both BHA (covering 1990-2007) and the International Bibliography of Art (IBA), covering the years 2008 and part of 2009. The Répertoire de la litterature de l’art (RILA), one of the predecessors [...]

  • E-resources systems downtime

    Updated: 2010-08-27 06:25:55
    The following resources will be inaccessible due to systems upgrade or maintenance at the times indicated. We apologize for any inconvenience. Resource Systems downtime Annual Reviews 3:00 A.M. Saturday August 28, 2010 in Asia/Hong Kong for 6 hours Science Direct 8:30 P.M. Saturday August 28 to 5:30 A.M. August 29 in Asia/Hong Kong Scopus 8:30 P.M. Saturday August 28 to 5:30 A.M. August [...]

  • Integrating Indigenous Knowledge and GIS for Participatory Natural Resource Management: State-of-the-Practice

    Updated: 2010-08-25 21:51:55
    This is an abstract of a paper by Nitesh Tripathi and Shefali Bhattarya both from the University of Florida published in the Electronic Journal on Information Systems in Developing Countries. Experience has shown that development efforts that ignore indigenous knowledge (IK), localsystems of knowledge, and the local environment generally fail to achieve their desired objectives. IK systems are [...]

  • Powerful Ingredients for Blended Learning

    Updated: 2010-08-25 03:44:30
    A course designed and developed with a CRS approach would resemble existing course sites that incorporate a mix of content organized to promote student learning. For example, a course on “Technology for Teachers” developed by Wesley Fryer demonstrates how multiple formats are combined to create non-textbook learning materials. The home page provides access to a wikibook [...]

  • The Future of Learning Environments (short version)

    Updated: 2010-08-25 02:34:28
    This first section of the paper will examine the challenges the education systems face. The next section looks at how young people are using technology and particularly web 2.0 and social software in their everyday lives. The final section of the paper looks at Personal Learning Networks and Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) and considers the [...]

  • Energy Innovation at the Crossroads of National Security

    Updated: 2010-08-24 22:28:00
    The Department of Defense can play an important role in supporting innovation and commercialization of clean, low-carbon energy, thereby directly contributing to America's future economic competitiveness and bolstering national security.

  • A Different Way of Knowing: Tools and Strategies for Managing Indigenous Knowledge

    Updated: 2010-08-24 22:07:03
    This  abstract of a paper by Amanda Stevens, School of Information Management, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada discusses the necessary roles that librariaes and information professionals can play in the management and preservation of indigenous knowledge . There is a growing need to preserve indigenous knowledge, as indigenous communities around the world face ongoing threats to [...]

  • Responding to Climate Change Mega-Catastrophes

    Updated: 2010-08-24 21:06:00
    Harvard researchers present qualitative analysis of three options for mitigating the risk of climate mega-catastrophes: drastic abatement of greenhouse gas emissions, geo-engineering, and large-scale advance adaptation.

  • A Paradigm Shift Towards Sustainable Low-Carbon Transport: Financing the Vision ASAP

    Updated: 2010-08-24 19:17:00
    By investing in sustainable low-carbon transport systems today, developing countries will reap various economic, social, and environmental benefits during the next half century and beyond.

  • Application of ICTs in Nigerian Secondary Schools

    Updated: 2010-08-23 20:47:43
    Here is an abstract of an article available for download on the University of Nebraska, Lincoln digital commons. This paper examines ICT applications in Nigerian secondary schools. It reveals that ICTs should be adopted in Nigerian schools to improve the educational system and help the students receive a solid education, enabling them to live successfully. Though [...]

  • Datastream Guide available online now

    Updated: 2010-08-23 10:38:15
    Datastream (http://library.hku.hk/record=b2186591) is a standalone workstation available on G/F Main Library for finding international financial, economic, stock market and company data. We have recently uploaded the online guide @ http://lib.hku.hk/general/research/FBE/Datastream%202010.pdf Please feel free to access this for more search examples.     addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fobelix.lib.hku.hk%2Fcdblog%2F%3Fp%3D6457'; addthis_title = 'Datastream+Guide+available+online+now'; addthis_pub = '';

  • Beta release of the World Treaty Index (WTI)

    Updated: 2010-08-23 10:04:15
    The World Treaty Index (WTI) is a beta prerelease database with a list of treaties formed during the twentieth century, housed at the University of Michigan.    Currently, WTI provides access to information on more than 50,000 bilateral and multilateral treaties formed between 1945 and 1997. This includes not only treaties formally registered with the United [...]

  • China Copyright Disputes Threaten E-Book Industry

    Updated: 2010-08-23 02:50:23
    “A copyright lawsuit for China’s largest e-book reader manufacturer is highlighting problems that are holding back development of the country’s e-book market.” [Source: By Mike Clendenin, Information Week, July 12, 2010] addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fobelix.lib.hku.hk%2Fcdblog%2F%3Fp%3D6451'; addthis_title = 'China+Copyright+Disputes+Threaten+E-Book+Industry'; addthis_pub = '';

  • Slum Tourism

    Updated: 2010-08-11 21:24:40
    The New York Times has an interesting op-Ed contribution from Kennedy Odede a Kenyan student at Wesleyan University titled Slum Tourism. He comments insightfully on the practice of foreign tourists visiting slums in developing countries such as Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya and Mumbai in India, these visits are mostly an intrusion in the lives of the people who live [...]

  • The United Nations Millenium Development Goals Report 2010

    Updated: 2010-08-06 20:11:04
    In a forward to the 2010 Millenium Development Goals Report Ban Ki-Moon the United Nations General Secretary wrote: The Goals represent human needs and basic rights that every individual around the world should be able to enjoy—freedom from extreme poverty and hunger; quality education, productive and decent employment, good health and shelter; the right of [...]

  • Introduction to Kente Weaving in Ghana (YouTube)

    Updated: 2010-08-06 18:17:14
    This video provides brief  instructions on Kente weaving in Ghana. Kente is the traditional cloth of Ghana, woven predominantly in the Ashanti and Volta regions of Ghana. Traditionally it is strip-woven exclusively for royalty and worn to reflect prestige and wealth, usually for ceremonial and festive occasions. Each cloth has a specific name based on the pattern [...]

  • Is oil always a curse in Africa? Maybe not in Ghana

    Updated: 2010-08-06 18:01:00
    : MAIN CONTACT EDITOR SUBSCRIBE RSS Today is Friday August 6, 2010 Is oil always a curse in Africa Maybe not in Ghana By Don Cayo 6 Aug 2010 COMMENTS(0 Globalization : for better or worse Filed under : Paul Collier Ghana resource wealth Resources don't have to be a curse , as a country like Canada can attest , but in much of the world they almost always . are Indeed , nbsp British economist Paul Collier , author of The Bottom Billion : Why the poorest countries are failing and what can be done about it , identifies having resources especially high value , easily transportable ones , is one of the four poverty traps that keeps subSaharan Africa so . poor But , as I found when I visited diamond-rich Botswana a few months ago , this doesn't have to be the case . Click here for my previously

  • Billionaires' big gifts will come with expertise attached

    Updated: 2010-08-04 20:59:00
    : MAIN CONTACT EDITOR SUBSCRIBE RSS Today is Friday August 6, 2010 Billionaires' big gifts will come with expertise attached By Don Cayo 4 Aug 2010 COMMENTS(1 Globalization : for better or worse Filed under : international development charity News that 30 of the United States's 403 billionaires have pledged to give away half their money has grabbed headlines because of the amount . involved And so it should . No matter how these gifts are measured in the context of worldwide development spending , or in the annual income of many poor countries they represent a huge . contribution But I think that just is important is the expertise that will come with much of this money , and the discipline that will be imposed on its . spending The pledge made by the 30 billionaires is to donate at least

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