(22 Sep 2025) After a summer break during the peak heat, the Seoul Outdoor Library will reopen on September 5 and run through November 2, the city government announced Thursday. The library will operate evenings (4 p.m. to 10 p.m.) throughout September before shifting to daytime hours (11 a.m. to 6 p.m.) in late October as…
(25 Aug 2025) The Delhi High Court has ordered a ban on the shadow library Sci-Hub and its mirror websites in India on August 19, 2025, directed the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) and the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY) to notify Internet Service Providers to block access to these websites within 24 hours.…
(26 Aug 2025) This year’s Annual Meeting and Conference of the Southeast Asia Library Group for the first time took place in beautiful Passau in Lower Bavaria, Germany, on 26-28 June 2025. It was hosted by the Chair of Critical Development Studies – Southeast Asia at the University of Passau. We would like to express our sincere…
(22 Aug 2025) From the abstract: “New roles in AI are emerging throughout Industry, Academia, and Government. From responsible AI management to AI systems engineering, these roles require new skills, many of which align closely with librarian competencies. Roles in AI where librarian skills are especially relevant include organizing information, facilitating documentation, assessing societal…
(21 Aug 2025) The Special Libraries Association (SLA) and the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) today announced that their members have cleared the way for the organizations to merge. SLA members voted overwhelmingly to accept the dissolution plan proposed by their Board of Directors. Separately, ASIS&T members resoundingly approved their Board’s proposal to welcome…
(21 Aug 2025) The Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser (PSA) to the Government of India and Springer Nature have announced a collaboration aimed at strengthening awareness of research integrity, open access, and evolving scholarly publishing practices across India’s Tier 2 and Tier 3 academic institutions. The partnership is anchored in the RISE-UTTHAN initiative, an academic engagement…
(14 Aug 2025) The Training Centre in Communication (TCC Africa) is pleased to announce a new strategic partnership with iesResearch, the research engagement arm of iGroup, which advances research excellence through AI integration, strategic outreach, and partnerships across the Asia-Pacific and other emerging regions. This collaboration focuses on strengthening research capacity and visibility for institutions in Africa and Asia.…
(20 Aug 2025) Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to automate repetitive, data-intensive and pattern-recognition tasks, thereby freeing human cataloguers for more complex work. What impact will this have? We interviewed Getaneh Alemu because his current work demonstrates a proactive engagement with AI in cataloguing. He is actively involved in exploring, testing and evaluating various…
The number of tools available to help library staff identify potential research misconduct is rapidly expanding. Here are some recommendations. (7 Aug 2025) The management of open access agreements within academic libraries creates the possibility for library staff to play a new role in the ongoing publishing integrity crisis. When library staff monitor open…
(11 Aug 2025) Boston Public Library, one of the oldest and largest public library systems in the country, is launching a project this summer with OpenAI and Harvard Law School to make its trove of historically significant government documents more accessible to the public. The documents date back to the early 1800s and include oral…