(21 May 2021) The latest issue of the IFLA Asia & Oceania Regional Newsletter is now available. In this issue: UN SDGs: Preserving Nusantara Manuscripts and Supporting Sustainable Cities and Communities Development, by National Library of Indonesia Connecting Generations to Build Technology Skills at the Library, by Shoalhaven Libraries, Australia University Library’s Modernisation Improves…
(17 May 2021) A full-fledged library for Covid patients, who otherwise get confined to their bed for almost two weeks without having any scope for entertainment, has been set up by the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC). With their movement restricted due to health issues and protocols, the inmates of this facility are now…
(21 May 2021) A humble library for orphans in Yangon, built of recycled plastic waste, stands empty without books or archives. It was supposed to start welcoming young readers earlier this year, but its opening has been indefinitely deferred by Myanmar’s bloody coup. For many, environmental concerns have taken a back seat to the broader…
(25 May 2021) Dear Library and Music Lovers! IFLA New Professionals Special Interest Group (NPSIG) presents their first music competition for librarians! We want to see the important role libraries and music have in your life. What do you need to prepare? A song with melody and with lyrics if you would like. In your music…
(25 May 2021) The Department of Parliamentary Services (DPS) is recruiting for Assistant Director, Library Databases vacancy within the Library Collections & Discovery section, Library Collections & Databases branch. The department is responsible for a wide range of services and facilities, working closely with the Department of the Senate, the Department of the House…
(25 May 2021) Joy Owango, Executive Director of the Training Centre in Communication based in the University of Nairobi, Kenya, gives an overview of how African countries are working together toward the goal of open science. The centre she currently oversees provides capacity support in improving researchers output and visibility through training in scholarly and…
(20 May 2021) The recent announcement made by Clarivate says, “By normalizing for different fields of research and their widely varying rates of publication and citation, the Journal Citation Indicator provides a single journal-level metric that can be easily interpreted and compared across disciplines. The Journal Citation Indicator will be calculated for all journals in…
(19 May 2021) Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University recently released an infographic and a blog post on why h-index should not be used in research evaluation. “Using the h-index in research evaluation? Rather not. But why not, actually? Why is using this indicator so problematic? And what are the alternatives anyway?…
Digital conference 16 – 17 September 2021 (19 May 2021) National libraries are responsible for collecting and preserving the published output of their countries and international publications of research interest, with library professionals tasked to build and promote these cultural heritage repositories of knowledge and creativity. However, curatorial roles within these institutions face unprecedented…
(3 May 2021) In 2013, through the generous support of William and Judith Bollinger, the British Library embarked upon a five-year project, in collaboration with the National Library Board of Singapore, to digitize materials in the British Library of interest to Singapore. The project initially focused on Malay manuscripts, early maps of Singapore, and archival…