(18 Mar 2024) Thailand’s national soft power sub-committee on books will propose to the government the establishment of ‘the Book Institute’ and ‘One Province, One Landmark Library’. The news in full is here.
(21 Mar 2024) The Documentation Centre of Cambodia (DC-Cam) plans to build a Queen Mother Library and reading room near the Laos border in Stung Treng province to develop education and preserve important Cambodian documents. The province’s Borey O’Svay Senchey district Governor Ly Mina said that DC-Cam is a center that collects important historical…
(22 Mar 2024) While libraries are relatively easy to come by, reading materials for Australians who are blind or vision impaired aren’t as commonly found. The library at Brisbane’s Braille house is the largest in the country and is celebrating its 125th birthday. But despite its age the library received its first bout of…
(21 Mar 2024) “We help connect idle books to hungry minds,” reads a statement on the website of Hyderabad-based Food4Thought Foundation (food4thoughtfoundation.org). Formed in 2015 as a bridge connecting individuals who want to donate books idling on their shelves and educational institutions and those seeking books to open a small library, the organization has helped set up 622…