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Japan: Basic plan for the International Library of Children’s Literature 2021-2025
(30 Mar 2021) The International Library of Children’s Literature (ILCL) of the National Diet Library (NDL) was established in 2000 as the sole national library dedicated to children’s books. In…
LAS-PPM Joint Conference 2021 submission deadline extended to 10 August 2021
(30 Jul 2021) From Library Association of Singapore: Dear Members We will be extending the submission deadline for the call for presenters to no later than Tuesday 10 August 2021,…
Does the rise of AI spell the end of education?
(8 Jul 2021) Artificial intelligence will soon be able to research and write essays as well as humans can. So will genuine education be swept away by a tidal wave…
Open access book: “New Libraries in Old Buildings — Creative Reuse”
(1 Jul 2021) About the book: New Libraries in Old Buildings — Creative Reuse* Edited by: Petra Hauke, Karen Latimer and Robert Niess Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Saur, 2021 ISBN…
Taiwan: memory library for former president Lee Teng-hui to be set up
(30 Jul 2021) National Taiwan University (NTU) has agreed to house a memorial library to former president Lee Teng-hui (李登輝) at its College of Law building on Xuzhou Road in Taipei,…
In search for creative and embedded research impact
(26 Jul 2021) Funding agencies are increasingly seeking to promote more non-linear developmental approaches to research impact. In this post, Natalia Kucirkova, discusses how her research on children’s story making…
2021 Scholar Metrics released by Google
(22 Jul 2021) Scholar Metrics provide an easy way for authors to quickly gauge the visibility and influence of recent articles in scholarly publications. Today, we are releasing the 2021…
Scientific publishing organizations and national laboratories partner on transgender-inclusive name-change process for published papers
(28 Jul 2021) All seventeen U.S. national laboratories and many prominent publishers, journals, and other organizations in scientific publishing announced today the beginning of a partnership to support name change requests…
UNSW Library is hiring Associate Director, Digital Experience and Innovation
(Jul 2021) About the job: The Associate Director, Digital Experience and Innovation is responsible for ensuring that the Library delivers innovative, user-focused and high-quality digital infrastructure and experiences to the…
How impact moved from concept to governing principle
(15 Jul 2021) The term ‘impact’ has become so familiar that it is easy to forget how much effort was invested in embedding it in British academia. Marta Natalia Wróblewska takes a…
GRID passes the torch to ROR
(12 Jul 2021) In 2015 Digital Science first released the Global Research Identifier Database (GRID), an open database of unique research-related organisation identifiers they had developed in-house over several years, for…
Singapore University of Social Sciences is hiring Associate Librarian/Senior Associate Librarian, Discovery and Technology
(26 Jul 2021) About this job: The Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS) Library seeks a self-motivated, innovative and service-oriented individual to develop, maintain and enhance web and library…
A Former public library is transformed into a luxury design hostel
(22 Jul 2021) The new BOOK1 Design Hostel in Aarhus, Danmark, has all the classic hostel elements like bunk beds, laundry facilities and ping pong tables, as well as luxury hotel…
Report: How readers discover content in scholarly publications, 2021
(20 Jul 2021) The latest Renew Consultants research was carried out with the support of leading publishers and other organisations involved in scholarly communications and attracted responses from over 15,000…
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