(17 Jun 2026) Almaty, Kazakhstan – Abai University hosted a meeting with representatives from the international companies “IES Research” and “Mikro Information”. The event was attended by the heads and staff of the university’s scientific structures, as well as the series editors of the journal “Bulletin of Abai KazNPU”, who gathered to discuss opportunities for…
Contributed by: Shameem Nilofar, University Librarian, SMU Libraries Rajen Munoo, Advisor Learning Programs and Global Relations, SMU Libraries With Inputs from: Dr Ida Fajar Priyanto, Ph.D. Advisor FPPTI East Java; Universitas Gadjah Mada Melati Purba Bestari, Chair of FPPTI East Java. Librarian; Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang Chandra Pratama Setiawan, Vice Chair of FPPTI East Java.…
(21 Jun 2026) The new $100 million underground library Phrontisterion is now open at Hobart’s Museum of Old and New Art (Mona). A decade in the making, the project fulfils a long-held dream of Mona founder David Walsh and houses 30,000 books — although not on display in the usual manner of libraries. Items…
(10 Jun 2026) Seoul is turning its open-air libraries into hybrid reading rooms, turning a QR code into a gateway to thousands of e-books under a new pilot program launched with Korean e-commerce company Yes24. The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Wednesday it has partnered with Yes24 to introduce a location-based e-book service called “Crema Club…
(26 Jun 2026) Japanese Emperor Naruhito and King Philippe visited the KU Leuven University Library on Wednesday afternoon as part of the Japanese imperial couple’s state visit to Belgium, marking 160 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries. The visit to the University Library highlighted the historical links between Japan and KU Leuven.…
(26 Jun 2026) Choice is pleased to announce a new email-based micro-course on AI for academic libraries. Building on last year’s popular eight-module series, “AI Literacy Essentials for Academic Libraries”, this new offering was developed by Choice’s LibTech Insights team, once again with support from Clarivate, a global leader in transformative intelligence. Three new modules will…
(24 Jun 2026) SCOAP3 has released the results of its 2026 Open Science Elements evaluation, marking the second assessment conducted under Phase 4 of the initiative. The annual evaluation measures how participating publishers perform across a range of open science practices, including integration of persistent identifiers such as ORCiD and ROR, metadata quality, availability of data and…
(26 Jun 2026) UNESCO has introduced the Open Science Platform, a digital tool designed to promote open access to its scientific knowledge and research outputs while tracking global progress on open science. The launch took place during UN Open Source Week 2026, held from June 22 to 26 in New York. Developed in collaboration with the…
(16 Jun 2026) On March 24, 2026, in response to a lawsuit by seventeen academics, a German Court ruled that a mandatory article manuscript deposit requirement imposed by the German State of Baden-Württemberg on researchers working or affiliated with educational institutions within the state was void ab initio. The plaintiffs had alleged that the deposit requirement infringed their…
(15 Jun 2026) This study evaluates the performance of four generative AI models—ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Gemini, and Copilot—in generating descriptive metadata for bibliographic resources. Models were tested on a small, diverse set of resources using four prompt types: a basic prompt, a basic prompt with an example, a detailed prompt referencing Resource Description and Access (RDA)…