(7 Jun 2022) Ajay Pratap Singh, the new director-general of the National Library, plans to restore and rejuvenate the National Library’s historic city hub at Esplanade which used to house newspapers and periodicals with IT support; develop repositories of all 22 scheduled languages, and focus on developing virtual environment to provide support to information seekers…
(24 Jun 2022) The digital library Science and Technology Academic and Research-Based Openly Operated Kiosk Station (STARBOOKS) of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) will soon be available via datacasting. Starbooks is a stand-alone information source designed to reach those with limited or no access to Science and Technology information resources. The project…
(10 Jun 2022) When Nathan Sentance first visited Australia’s oldest library, a grand sandstone structure next to Parliament House in Sydney, he loved it. But he felt out of place. “You have to go past the security guard,” the indigenous librarian said. “The first thing you see when you enter some of these spaces…
(10 Jun 2022) The one Talk titled “Libraries of the future” was hosted by Malaysian Book Industry Chamber chairman Keith Thong and moderated by Dr Nor Edzan Che Nazir from Librarians Association of Malaysia (PPM) at World Trade Centre Kuala Lumpur in line with Kl International Book Fair. The talk was also joined by…
Octopus aims to change the way research is published and improve its quality. (24 Jun 2022) Ground-breaking publishing platform Octopus is being launched next week (29 June), and researchers are invited to attend the online event to find out more. Octopus aims to enable fast, free and fair publishing of research that is open to all, and which focusses on the intrinsic…
(24 Jun 2022) Sri Lanka has temporarily shut down at least three state universities and closed schools in the capital Colombo and other main cities due to a prevailing fuel crisis and a collapsing economy that has affected all sectors and led to the interruption of academic activities at most universities as lecturers and students…