(15 Dec 2021) LISNews has shared the top 10 stories that happened in 2021 which give us a glimpse of the trend in the global library world. They are: 10. More Libraries End Late Fines 9. Cape Town Library Damaged by Fire 8. Taylor Swift…? 7. University of California Re-Ups with Elsevier 6. Supply Chain…
The focus on a narrow set of metrics leads to a lack of diversity in the types of leader and institution that win funding. (11 Jan 2022) Many researchers who are funded from public sources are required to participate in national evaluations of their work. Such assessments are popular with governments because they help to…
Neuroscientists have long known that shut-eye helps consolidate memories in adults. Napping may play an equally crucial role in infants and young children. (13 Jan 2022) Dozing in a bassinet, a newborn baby wears a stretchy cap fitted with more than 100 soft electrodes. A low beep sounds, and she squints. Nearby, scientists watch…
(13 Jan 2022) Three years, four months and one long pandemic later, the National University of Singapore (NUS) Libraries Central Library revamp is finally complete! The university’s flagship library began progressively closing its floors in June 2018 to facilitate construction works, and had just completed Phases 1 and 2 of its revamp in Q1 2020…
(7 Jan 2022) IFLA is now welcoming submissions for its IFLA Green Library Award 2022. Objectives of the IFLA Green Library Award To reward a Green library / Green Library Projects that best communicate their commitment to environmental sustainability To create awareness of libraries’ social responsibility and leadership in environmental education To support the worldwide…
(12 Jan 2022) Altmetric.com has now officially tracked over200 million mentions of nearly 20 million research outputs. These 200 million mentions have come from a huge variety of sources, including social media, blogs, Wikipedia, policy documents, patents, news outlets and more. In 2021 Altmetric.com has expanded coverage on multiple language versions of Wikipedia, policy documents…
(6 Jan 2022) IFLA’s Trend Report series – launched in 2013, and with updates in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 – is there to support this reflection as a key part of individual and organisational development. We are therefore very happy today to launch the the 2021 Update of IFLA’s Trend Report, with a…
(8 Jan 2022) Sinjhuang District (新莊) is to become a hub for Taiwanese cinema, New Taipei City Mayor Hou You-yi (侯友宜) told a ceremony yesterday to open the Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute’s new base. With the new facility completed, the city government hopes that a plan to build a cinema museum nearby would start…
(Jan 2022) From the foreword of the report: “This report provides a window into how library leaders around the world have navigated our present crisis and asks some essential questions about how to begin to reimagine work, collections, and engagement with their respective communities. Some of the choices that library leaders must make were apparent…
(2 Jan 2022) World’s biggest digital library of Chinese journals under pressure over copyright infringement. A high-profile case against China’s largest academic database has triggered heated debate over the future of open access publishing in the country. Zhao Dexin, a retired professor at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, won a copyright lawsuit…