(19 Jun 2022) A stone plaquette detailing the establishment of what could have been the first public library and museum in Madurai in the year 1942, has been rediscovered in Pudhumandapam near Meenakshi temple in Madurai. The plaquette went missing for more than two decades and was found recently when the shops were cleared and…
(14 Jul 2022) Sri Lanka has been witnessing unprecedented unrest, with protesters having occupied the residences of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who is set to tender his resignation, and acting President and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. Protesters could be seen engaging in a variety of activities inside the official residences, from gardening to playing carrom. In…
(7 Jul 2022) State-owned independent think tank Institute for Development Studies (IDS) is set to work with the state library to build up data for the North Borneo History Research Centre (NBHRC). Sabah IDS chairman Datuk Adeline Leong said it would be collaborating with the state library in efforts to build up the centre that…
Upon seeing the revitalised library in Taman Ismail Marzuki, in Jakarta, Indonesia, Malaysians wished that local libraries had the same aesthetic and accessibility to cultivate a genuine interest in reading and literature. (13 Jul 2022) Perpustakaan Jakarta Cikini in Taman Ismail Marzuki, Jakarta, Indonesia has been revived with a new look and Indonesians are not…
Mindfulness, detachment, selecting off-time activities with care: Here are evidence-based strategies to achieve healthy work-life balance By Chris Woolston (8 Jul 2022) There’s job stress, and then there’s the crushing pressure paramedics went through during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. The uncertainty, the dread, the constantly changing protocols, the shortages of personal…
(11 Jul 2022) scite, an award-winning tool that helps students and researchers discover and understand research findings more efficiently through Smart Citations, has partnered with global academic publisher Springer Nature to be listed in the Springer Nature Research Solutions hub for a six-month pilot. Working together, the pilot between scite and Springer Nature will offer…
Eighty scholarly monographs and edited collections partially funded by libraries participating in MIT Press’s Direct to Open model will publish openly this year. (13 Jul 2022) Thanks to the support of libraries participating in Direct to Open (D2O), the MIT Press will publish its full list of 2022 scholarly monographs and edited collections open access on the MIT Press Direct…
(14 Jul 2022) The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published the ARL Annual Salary Survey 2020, which analyzes salary data for professional staff working in 123 of the 124 ARL member libraries during 2020. Data are reported for 10,626 professional staff from 115 of the 116 university ARL libraries in Canada and the United States* and for…