(20 Sep 2021) SPARC releases the results of its COVID Impact Survey, which was undertaken to better understand academic libraries’ pandemic-related budgetary challenges and approaches, with a focus on understanding how they affected attitudes towards content, collections, and open initiatives. The full text of the report can be found here. The SPARC COVID Impact Survey…
(20 Sep 2021) Librarians should be given more support and credit for their research contributions, which should be costed into grant proposals, according to Research Libraries UK (RLUK), a consortium of research libraries in the UK and Ireland. A new report commissioned by RLUK and the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) says libraries are…
(15 Sep 2021) The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and improve the lives and prospects of everyone, everywhere. Adopted by all 193 UN Member States in 2015 as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, these 17 Goals frame a 15-year plan to transform…
(6 Sep 2021) Today OUP launched new branding which supports our ongoing transformation to become a digital-first business and enhance our aim to make knowledge and learning more accessible through the power of technology. Watch OUP’s advancing learning and knowledge brand film here OUP has been advancing knowledge and learning since our origins in the…
(9 Sep 2021) From the Report Published by the European Commission: The key findings of this study indicate that the European Commission’s leadership in the Open Science policy has paid off. Uptake has steadily increased over the past four years, achieving an average success rate of 83% in Horizon 2020 for open access to scientific…
After six years at the helm of the fourth busiest library in the world, Kate Torney has taken on a new challenge: supporting research into cancer. (6 Sep 2021) When Kate Torney was announced as the new CEO of the State Library Victoria (SLV) in 2015 she was an outsider. The first non-library trained CEO…
(2 Sep 2021) The Asia Foundation is introducing its innovative Let’s Read initiative to Mongolia to promote reading and improved education outcomes. The initiative helps parents and caregivers use children’s books as critical tools in actively contributing to early childhood development. Let’s Read Mongolia is made possible with generous financial support from the Lorinet Foundation.…
(4 Sep 2021) The Philippines recently received its first-ever award from the prestigious Venice Biennale since it first joined the exhibition in 1964. The recognition was for the exhibition “Structures of Mutual Support,” a stunning wooden structure inspired by the concept of bayanihan, the Filipino tradition of mutual support, following the biennial architecture fair’s theme of how…
(12 Sep 2021) In response to a request from Tochigi Library in the city of Tochigi, the Tochigi Animal Therapy Association chose from approximately 20 registered dogs belonging to volunteers to begin training. On the importance of reading therapy dogs during the coronavirus pandemic, Hirokazu Kurokawa, the library’s 46-year-old head, said, “It’s not a bad thing…
(13 Sep 2021) In a global survey fielded last month, more than half of those who are unvaccinated in more than 50 countries indicated they definitely or probably won’t get a COVID-19 vaccine. A new dashboard launched today by the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs (CCP) unpacks the survey findings and helps explain why—and how experts can…