(18 Aug 2025) New Delhi, The government, through the Raja Rammohun Roy Library Foundation under the Ministry of Culture, has recently launched a significant initiative to compile and maintain a comprehensive, “national-level dynamic database” of public libraries across the country, Parliament was informed on Monday. The Ministry of Culture, through the RRRLF, Kolkata an…
The conference is an interdisciplinary forum for delegates to present research results, share and discuss innovations, trends and practical challenges in the field of libraries and academic publishing. (20 Aug 2025) On August 20, in Gia Lai, the Vietnam Science Association and the International Center for Interdisciplinary Science and Education (ICISE) opened the “International Conference on Information…
(25 Aug 2025) I apologize for being so far behind on my current Ruth’s Rankings article on Impact, but every morning’s news brings more discouraging postings from my government on its involvement in education and research. It makes rankings seem trivial and it makes my colleagues and I feel helpless. By the time I finished…
(8 Aug 2025) An analysis of article views in Taylor & Francis medical journals has revealed that ‘extenders’ can significantly increase readership. Plain language summaries of publications and clinical trial protocols with extenders attracted 144% more views than those without these supplemental resources. Extenders, a term used in medical publishing for digital tools that present…
(24 Jul 2025) The Internet Archive has been designated a federal depository library by U.S. Senator Alex Padilla, in recognition of its digital-first approach to providing public access to federal government publications. The designation was confirmed in a letter to the U.S. Government Publishing Office. The Archive holds both physical and digital collections and is…
(13 Aug 2025) The report considers the areas of alignment and disconnect between the library and publisher communities on academic monograph publishing. While the two communities have come together on a variety of important initiatives, including new models for open access publications, they are facing different challenges and do not necessarily share the same priorities. University…
(12 Aug 2025) arXiv’s 2024 Annual Report is now available online! arXiv began publishing annual reports in 2020 to give our community a summary of arXiv’s initiatives, accomplishments, and financial activities each year. We also use our annual report as an opportunity to thank our members, sponsors, affiliates, individual donors, and arXiv enthusiasts. You can…
As more libraries relocate to malls for greater accessibility, some patrons mourn the loss of quiet sanctuaries. (24 Jul 2025) Currently, 13 of NLB’s 28 public libraries are in malls, while a handful are housed in integrated complexes such as community centers. Once the relocations are complete, the conserved Queenstown library and the Bishan…
(11 Aug 2025) In the presence of a tightly rolled, yellowed scroll in the State Library of Victoria, it is hard not to feel a bit awe-struck. Inside a glass cabinet in the centre of the library sits the oldest known mass-printed text in the world, the Hyakumantō Darani. The finger-length item is a…
(15 Aug 2025) Singapore Management University (SMU) Libraries invites you to join our next online Masterclass. Are your AI, Information and Digital Literacies (AID) Programmes Pedagogically Sound? Designed for Instruction Librarians and librarians involved in teaching, this Masterclass led by Rajen offers a practical and insightful journey into his instructional design experiences. Participants will explore key…