A project at Australia National University was established to develop an electronic gateway to a number of unique and in some cases rare and fragile collections in both print and microfilm relating to the Chinese Cultural Revolution period (1966 to 1976). This web-based database not only makes this material accessible globally to the academic community [...]

At the 2005 PRDLA meeting in Hawaii, it was decided that PRDLA would attempt an interlibrary loan pilot project as a means of sharing resources among members of the alliance. The project, headed by Director Xue Fangyu of Tsinghua University, was a one-year experiment with no-fee, non-returnable interlibrary loans between PRDLA member institutions on opposite [...]

The University of Auckland, the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and the University of California, San Diego have collaborated to create a single point of access for researchers seeking information about the cultures and history of Oceania (Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia). US$50,000 was awarded (with unanimous endorsement of membership) on 17 October 2007 to [...]

Robin Chandler, University of California, San Diego 2009 ODiL Update [PPT]

David Palmer (Hong Kong University) has published an article in Serials Review describing the development of the Pacific Rim Library and its effectiveness in revealing objects in digital collections that are hidden in the Deep Web.