(14 Apr 2022) During the COVID-19 pandemic, librarians in EIFL partner countries began to alert EIFL about problems providing access to educational resources during lockdowns, in particular much needed textbooks. For printed materials in the library’s collection, there are often no licensed electronic versions available, especially for textbooks and other materials in local languages. In this…
(20 Apr 2022) The new book about the current library services and library innovation framework in Southeast Asia is now available online. LIBRARY SERVICES FRAMEWORK is a joint output of the ASEAN Member States National and Public Libraries which features the product and services of the libraries in Southeast Asia before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.…
(20 Apr 2022) The fundamental existence of academic libraries depends on how well they serve their library users. Supporting the faculty to meet their needs and in return, working together towards the common goal of meeting the institution’s objectives, has become paramount to the modern academic librarian in the 21st century. In a recent survey,…
Research will advance big data movement and analysis, develop tools for visually exploring data and communicating results (16 Apr 2022) The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced $26 million for research to advance scientific data management and visualization. Foundational research in data management will address challenges stemming from the increasingly massive data sets produced by scientific…
(18 Apr 2022) Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, much still feels the same, though in some important ways our thinking and behaviors may be shifting in anticipation of longer-term changes in the ways we structure our lives and our shared places and spaces. In higher education, these shifts may reflect an evolution from short-term…
(19 Apr 2022) As part of NTU 2025, the University’s latest strategic plan, NTU Library recently launched the revamped Liber@ADML (Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Bookish and Experimental Research at the Art, Design and Media Library) earlier this year. The enhanced Liber@ADML features edtech-ready spaces and facilities to better support the interdisciplinary research and innovation need of the…
(14 Apr 2022) The deadline for submissions for the 2022 issue of the Singapore Journal of Library and Information Management (SJLIM) has been extended till 15th May 2022. Theme: The Post-Pandemic Library Era We are interested in submissions outlining research as well as practice projects. Opinion pieces and commentaries are also welcome. We accept submissions on…
(12 Apr 2022) YOKOTE, Akita Prefecture–Stocktaking of books at a municipal library here is now fully automated under a trial experiment that potentially could see humans removed from the process altogether. A robot assigned to locate books by reading data stored in integrated circuit (IC) tags on each tome can finish the task in…
(7 Apr 2022) ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today announced that its first 50 years of publications, from 1951 through the end of 2000, are now open and freely available to view and download via the ACM Digital Library. ACM’s first 50 years backfile contains more than 117,500 articles on a wide range of computing topics.…
(6 Apr 2022) Online disinformation – especially about science – is one of the scourges of our age. To help researchers and communications professionals deal with it, an EU-funded consortium led by Erasmus University Rotterdam has launched a free online course on the topic. The seven-part programme, now available on educational platform Coursera, is the…