(7 Mar 2021) Indology and Tamil studies at Cologne University, Germany has decided to discontinue the Tamil studies department’s course in 2018 due to lack of funds. The language has been taught at the institution since 1963 and the Tamil library is one of the largest outside India with more than 40,000 books. In an…
鉴于高校图书馆预算的减少，以及响应支持中国高校图书馆数字资源采购联盟（DRAA）成员继续获取Karger 医学电子资源以保障对教学科研的支持，我们修订了现行的2021-2022年DRAA多年协议。
Amazon is the only US publisher that does not sell e-books or audiobooks to libraries. Amazon has published thousands of e-books since 2009. Public libraries are a way for Americans to access books and media, some of which are paywalled by Amazon. (11 Mar 2021) Amazon does not sell its thousands of e-books or tens…
Japan’s National Diet Library has 4.45 million items in its digital quake database, including over a million photos; physical artefacts are in regional museums Curators are working to make the items easily available to the general public and to preserve remnants of the disaster before they are lost (10 Mar 2021) In Japan, efforts…