(4 May 2023) Sage has launched a free-to-read collection of research and other resources that explore the Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) region. Categories in the collection include: gender role and oppression governments, laws, and policies information and media mental health, healthcare, and medicine protests, conflicts, and war refugees, displaced, and stateless people …
(2 May 2023) The only public library dedicated to the performing arts, library@esplanade, is set to close its doors on 30 June. The National Library Board (NLB) announced in a statement on Tuesday (2nd May) that the library’s collections and programs will be moved to the National Library Building in Bras Basah. NLB said…
(10 May 2023) Jain (Deemed-to-be University)’s leading School of Humanities and Social Sciences is now offering yet another fresh course: Master of Library and Information Science. For more information: https://www.jainuniversity.ac.in/program/humanities-and-social-sciences/library-and-information-science The news in full is here.
(11 May 2023) The Library of Congress (LC) finished digitizing the Yongle Encyclopedia, “the largest reference work created in pre-modern China, and possibly the world. Digital publication of the 41 volumes held in the Library’s collections provides open access to one of the most extensive attempts in world history to capture the entirety of human…