(22 Jan 2025) A new issue of the SEALG Newsletter (January 2025) has been published and is now available online. In this issue, SEALG Annual Meeting, Frankfurt am Main 2024 The Southeast Asia Digital Library: Collaboration as Sustainability Highlighting a Multi-faceted Adventurous Journey to South Korea, the Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Taiwan in 2023:…
(13 Dec 2024) An archive has been opened in Taiwan featuring Korean culture at a single venue. The National Library of Korea (NLK) on Dec. 12 said it opened the facility at Chinese Culture University in Taipei. As the first of its kind in the island country, the reference room is on the seventh floor…
(8 Jan 2025) Why don’t you solve your problems with “word supplements”? A library here has started a “library pharmacy” event, in which books are lent out in a paper bag resembling a medicine envelope according to the “symptoms” of the user, such as “I want to get a supportive push.” The bags are labeled…
(9 Jan 2025) After nearly 3 months of implementation, the digital library and STEM classrooms have been put into use, with a total investment of more than 11 billion VND, supported by the Tam Ky city budget and the Quang Nam province budget. Vice Chairman of Tam Ky City People’s Committee Nguyen Minh Nam…
From deciphering burnt Roman scrolls to reading crumbling cuneiform tablets, neural networks could give researchers more data than they’ve had in centuries. (30 Dec 2024) In October 2023, an e-mail pinged onto Federica Nicolardi’s phone with an image that would transform her research forever. It showed a fragment of a papyrus scroll that had been…
(27 Dec 2024) All but one member of the editorial board of the Journal of Human Evolution (JHE), an Elsevier title, have resigned, saying the “sustained actions of Elsevier are fundamentally incompatible with the ethos of the journal and preclude maintaining the quality and integrity fundamental to JHE’s success.” Among other moves, according to the statement,…
(8 Jan 2025) Members of Singapore’s literary and publishing community issued a statement on Tuesday (Jan 7) denouncing Singapore’s National Library Board (NLB) for its current approach towards generative artificial intelligence (AI). The statement expressed concerns over what the group says is NLB’s “uncritical endorsement of generative AI”. It initially had a total of…
By Ruth A Pagell* (2 Jan 2025) Many decades ago, when I began working in academia, before global rankings, researchers were expected to write articles on their own. Today’s articles may be written by one author or a hundred authors, in the same or different departments, universities, or anywhere in the world, with or…
(9 Jan 2025) SirsiDynix, has been acquired by Harris Computing, one of six operating companies of Constellation Software, Inc, a publicly traded company based in Toronto. It purchased SirsiDynix from ICV Partners, a private equity firm that has owned it since February 2015. Unlike private equity firms, Constellation does not sell the companies it acquires.…
(18 Dec 2024) In recognition of the Library Publishing Directory’s 10 year anniversary, we took this opportunity to look back at the first Directory from 2014 and to highlight some of the trends and developments we identified in the data from 2014 to 2024. In this year’s edition of the Directory, we received responses from 179 publishers in 18…