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The article presents an international update on the information technology industry as of March 2004. IGroup, a distributor of databases, e-journals, and library automation systems, has contracted CAVAL Collaborative Solutions, a consortium of Australian universities to prepare a report on the feasibility of developing a new international certificate and diploma course for Asian librarians and information professionals. The feasibility study will seek to establish which skills employers are looking for and how knowledge management techniques and new library technologies and standards can be incorporated into a new curriculum. The National Library of Malaysia has launched a new Web site to help improve knowledge of Islam and Muslim communities. The International Islamic Digital Library is a Web-based collection of digital books, manuscripts, theses, journal articles and working papers. Also, in Australia, a new search engine has been launched that claims to offer more precise and personalized searching. Meanwhile, in Taiwan, Creative Commons, a non-profit organization dedicated to building a body of creative works that are free to be copied and reused, has announced that it's information discussions to expand its International Commons project to China and Taiwan.

The article presents several information technology news briefs as of January 2013. Topics include the acquisition of the Ex Libris Group by the software firm Golden Gate Capital, a grant awarded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to the open source software organization LYRASIS, and a partnership between Alexander Street Press and Asia Pacific Films (APF) to distribute video content from Asia to the rest of the world.

The article focuses on information technology news briefs as of July 2012. It states that the U.S. Government Printing Office is allowing bookstore Barnes & Noble sell federal electronic books for its Nook electronic book reader. It mentions that Questex Media Group has acquired information provider Ataway Exchange. It comments that telecommunications company L2Networks Corp. filed a formal complaint with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission concerning Net Neutrality.

The article reports on topics which were discussed at the fifth International Conference on Asia- Pacific Library and Information Education and Practice (A-LIEP 2013), which was held in July of 2013 in Khon Kaen, Thailand. Topics included issues facing information professionals in the digital age, information technology in education and linked data.

The article presents information services industry news briefs as of July/August 2013. The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery, Inc. has renewed a partnership with HighWire Press of Stanford University to host the online journal "JBJS Reviews." The bibliography service EasyBib collaborated with nonprofit research organization Project Information Literacy (PIL). Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. launched a trial metrics service Altmetric.

This section offers news briefs on the international information industry as of June 1, 2018. Topics mentioned include the Asia Foundation's launch of a free digital library of Khmer-language children's books, the effort by former library directors Maija Berndtson and Mats Öström to unveil the Library Ranking Europe project, and the J.R.R. Tolkien exhibition which runs from June to October at the University of Oxford's Bodleian Libraries.

This article presents some highlights of the 11th Australasian World Wide Web Conference (AusWeb05) held in Australia in July 2005. AusWeb is a forum for librarians, technologists, social scientists, and entrepreneurs to discuss broad issues shaping the Web's evolution. AusWeb05 featured four tracks: Technical and Standards; Education and Training; e-Commerce/e-Business/Online Marketing; and Society, Information and the Web. Although presenters were predominantly from Australia, there was a cross-section of delegates from Asia and North America. Web evolution was the starting point for the tracks, but topics quickly moved onto a more granular analysis of Web trends, four of which emerged as central themes for the conference: high-quality content, Google Scholar, e-learning, and business models.

This article discusses the efforts of the students and faculty at the University of Maryland to teach U.S. soldiers stationed in Asia how to search online databases as of 1986. The university has a prime contract with the Department of Defense to teach their soldiers. Database searching is an important skill for the military, allowing its soldiers to use a multitude of computer tools for work and play. Soldiers have said that tools, such as electronic mail or video games, was a good form of recreation.