(30 Nov 2021) The New Zealand National Library decided to cease its donation of 600,000 books from its overseas published collection to Internet Archive for digitization, following a wave of criticism due to copyright issues. The US-based Internet Archive is a digital repository of books, movies, games and music free of use. Following digitization, the…
(6 Dec 2021) The Australian government said it will hand more than AU$47 million to digitise and preserve at risk archive material held by the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA), and seven other national collecting institutions, and to maintain the National Library of Australia’s (NLA) Trove website. Of the total, NFSA will receive AU$41.9 million over…
(30 Nov 2021) The Seongnam municipal government in Gyeonggi Province is on track to use drones for the delivery of library books. The city government said Monday that it will launch a pilot project for the proposed service within the first half of next year. The service will use drones to deliver books from libraries…