How a librarian’s trip to the car park planted the seed for a project to help people who can’t afford wifi. (31 Oct 2021) According to the 2021 Australian Digital Inclusion Index, 92% of Australians earning less than $52,000 a year would have to pay more than 5% of their household income to access a quality,…
(7 Nov 2021) The system-wide library council of the University of Philippines (UP) has expressed its strong opposition to the decision of banning and removal of books from libraries and online platforms that the government deemed subversive, saying it “threatens to undermine” academic freedom and “book purges” are practiced by authoritarian societies. “We, the System-wide…
(4 Nov 2021) U.S. tech company Google Inc. donated US$1 million Thursday to the Taiwan FactCheck Center (TFC) to help fund the center’s media literacy initiatives. The US$1 million will be disbursed over the next three years under Google’s Intelligent Taiwan initiatives to help combat the effects of disinformation, the company said. Google’s…
(3 Nov 2021) Google has introduced an updated citation feature for Google Docs, designed to “streamline the citations process, ensure correct formatting, and reduce the chances of manual errors.” The new feature, accessible from the Tools menu, allows users to search cited materials and automatically format them for MLA, APA and Chicago styles. Searches can be…
(27 Oct 2021) The Institute of Museum and Library Services, in partnership with Reinvestment Fund, have released a new study, Understanding the Social Wellbeing Impacts of the Nation’s Libraries and Museums, which examines the role of museums and libraries in promoting social wellbeing in communities across the United States. The multi-year, multi-market study found the…
(24 Oct 2021) Ever go hunting for a book without quite remembering the title? Perhaps you’ve gone to a library counter and declared, “There’s this book, and it’s called, um,” and then uttered something ridiculous. And at one library in Japan, the librarians are writing those down. And now they’ve put them in a book. …