(30 Mar 2021) The International Library of Children’s Literature (ILCL) of the National Diet Library (NDL) was established in 2000 as the sole national library dedicated to children’s books. In response to the Report of the Board of Inquiry on Expansion of Library Services of the ILCL (2005), the ILCL formulated the Second Basic Plan…
(30 Jul 2021) From Library Association of Singapore: Dear Members We will be extending the submission deadline for the call for presenters to no later than Tuesday 10 August 2021, 6pm. There will be no further extensions after that. A gentle reminder to lock in 6 October 2021! LAS & PPM are extremely excited about…
(8 Jul 2021) Artificial intelligence will soon be able to research and write essays as well as humans can. So will genuine education be swept away by a tidal wave of cheating – or is AI just another technical aid that teaching and assessment will evolve to take account of? John Ross Reports. THE…
(1 Jul 2021) About the book: New Libraries in Old Buildings — Creative Reuse* Edited by: Petra Hauke, Karen Latimer and Robert Niess Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Saur, 2021 ISBN 9783110679663 (IFLA Publications; No 180) This book focuses on difficulties and opportunities in revitalization of old, derelict or abandoned buildings into a library and investigates…
(30 Jul 2021) National Taiwan University (NTU) has agreed to house a memorial library to former president Lee Teng-hui (李登輝) at its College of Law building on Xuzhou Road in Taipei, the Lee Teng-hui Foundation announced yesterday. On the eve of the first anniversary of the former president’s death, the foundation, the Taiwan Association of…
(26 Jul 2021) Funding agencies are increasingly seeking to promote more non-linear developmental approaches to research impact. In this post, Natalia Kucirkova, discusses how her research on children’s story making apps presents a useful way for thinking about research impact that is embedded within the communities where it will be most beneficial. Highlighting the particular…
(22 Jul 2021) Scholar Metrics provide an easy way for authors to quickly gauge the visibility and influence of recent articles in scholarly publications. Today, we are releasing the 2021 version of Scholar Metrics. This release covers articles published in 2016–2020 and includes citations from all articles that were indexed in Google Scholar as of…
(28 Jul 2021) All seventeen U.S. national laboratories and many prominent publishers, journals, and other organizations in scientific publishing announced today the beginning of a partnership to support name change requests from researchers on past published papers. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is coordinating the effort. This agreement will allow researchers who wish to…
(Jul 2021) About the job: The Associate Director, Digital Experience and Innovation is responsible for ensuring that the Library delivers innovative, user-focused and high-quality digital infrastructure and experiences to the university community. The Associate Director, Digital Experience and Innovation deals extensively with UNSWIT, the Division of External Engagement (DEE) and a range of technology…
(15 Jul 2021) The term ‘impact’ has become so familiar that it is easy to forget how much effort was invested in embedding it in British academia. Marta Natalia Wróblewska takes a look at the emergence of the discourse of impact in the UK and its transformation from idea to defining feature of academic life. As other…