(2 Jan 2021) A new smart library has opened to the public in the city of Guiyang, southwest China’s Guizhou Province, bringing an upgraded reading experience to local residents. Covering an area of around 56,000 square meters, the seven-story library is part of the Guizhou Provincial Library project that started construction in November 2018. Various…
(12 Jan 2021) CRRC Corporation Limited, one of the world’s largest rail transportation equipment companies, has delivered more than 575 non-fiction books that introduce China from various aspects to Melbourne in Australia last December. The delivery marks the kickoff of CRRC’s China Bookshelf project (China Bookshelf), which aims to promote cultural exchanges between China and Australia and to create an inclusive community with…
(12 Jan 2021) The first Christian public library has opened in Vietnam, after a six-month approval process last year by several agencies of Vietnam’s Communist Government. “We hope it will be a symbol of Christian unity and Christian learning in Vietnam,” says Vu Le, executive director of Bible Society Vietnam, which established the library with local…
(13 Jan 2021) Students and staff at the University of Hong Kong are mourning the death of Jasper – the city’s first in-house therapy dog at an institution of higher learning – who passed away at the age of 12 on Sunday. The old English sheepdog was credited with helping hundreds of students in…
(6 Jan 2021) The article, “Waiving Article Processing Charges for Least Developed Countries: A Keystone of a Large-scale Open Access Transformation”, authored by Taubert, Niels, Andre Bruns, Christopher Lenke, and Graham Stone: “This article investigates whether it is economically feasible for a large publishing house to waive article processing charges for the group of…
(17 Dec 2020) The East Asia Digital Library (EADL), a portal site for cultural and scientific resources in East Asian languages, was launched on December 17, 2020. Configuration and operation of the EADL is being performed by the National Library of Korea (NLK) with the cooperation of the National Diet Library (NDL). The EADL…
(10 Jan 2021) CAUL is seeking to appoint a highly motivated individual to the newly established position of Director, Strategy & Analytics in the CAUL National Office. As CAUL operates a connected virtual office, this presents a great opportunity to work from home within Australia and engage with a variety of stakeholders across Australia and New Zealand. …
(5 Jan 2021) A small portion of scientific papers are retracted for research that is in error or fraudulent. But those papers can continue to be cited by other scientists in their work, potentially passing along the misinformation from the retracted articles. Jodi Schneider, a professor of information sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who studies…
Changes proposed by the Wikimedia Foundation to diversify its community of editors raise existential questions for the online encyclopedia. (4 Jan 2021) In 2021 the Wikimedia Foundation, which runs the more than 300 different versions of Wikipedia, plans to finalize a uniform code of conduct that details unacceptable behavior among the project’s editors—including insults,…
(7 Jan 2021) The Lao Recitation YouTube channel of the National Library of Laos recently went online, containing over 100 hours of traditional recitation and interviews with reciters. All recordings will also be available in the Digital Library of Lao Manuscripts, where some are readings of manuscripts and can be listened to while viewing images of the texts.…