Archive for the 'China' Category
National Library of China to add its records to OCLC WorldCat
March 1st, 2008Press Release - “The National Library of China, the largest library in Asia, will add its bibliographic records to the OCLC WorldCat database, the world’s most comprehensive online resource for finding items held in libraries, making those records available to researchers worldwide.”
“The Connection Has Been Reset”
March 1st, 2008The Atlantic - “China’s Great Firewall is crude, slapdash, and surprisingly easy to breach. Here’s why it’s so effective anyway.”
Building Libraries
December 13th, 2007“A fundraising effort, sponsored by the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business to support youth literacy and education in rural China, has raised enough money to build eight libraries in these often-neglected regions of the country.”
Bad Filtering
September 12th, 2007BBC - “China’s firewall that tries to sanitise web browsing is much more porous than previously thought, says a study.”