(27 Nov 2020) During his leisure time, Mahinda Dasanayaka packs his motorbike with books and rides his mobile library — across mostly muddy roads running through tea-growing mountain areas — to underprivileged children in backward rural parts of Sri Lanka. Having witnessed the hardships faced by children whose villages have no library facilities, Dasanayaka was…
(27 Nov 2020) Thailand’s first unmanned library, Chula UltimateX Library, is now open at Chulalongkorn University. Located on the 2nd and M2 floors of the Chaloem Rajakumari 60 Building (Chamchuri 10), the library is equipped with a remote facility management system and automatic machines that allow users to access library services remotely via smart phones…
(16 Nov 2020) IP.com, a global leader in providing solutions that drive innovation forward faster, released today a new AI analytic tool that enables the rapid review, ranking and prioritization of invention disclosures. The online Technology Vitality Report (TVR) enables rapid review of hundreds of invention disclosures, funneling lower ranking ideas back to the engineer for further iteration,…
(24 Nov 2020) Springer Nature last month announced that German authors would be able to publish their primary research open access in Nature and the Nature research journals, thanks to a ground-breaking agreement with the Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL). Whilst highly effective in transitioning articles to open access, transformative agreements like this can be complicated and…
(Nov 2020) The National Diet Library Preservation Forum is a place where people involved in the care and preservation of library materials can learn about subjects of common interest and exchange practical ideas. The first NDL Forum on Preservation was held in 1990, and on December 19, 2019, was held for the 30th time…
(18 Nov 2020) SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, is pleased to announce a partnership with the global open-knowledge platform, The Lens, a robust and comprehensive resource of linked datasets of scholarly and patent works run by Cambia, a long-established global social enterprise. Under the agreement, all scholarly citation and patent citation data for…
(23 Nov 2020) A new project at the University of Melbourne is trying to save old Australian books from being lost to history, by bringing together authors and libraries to create digital ebook versions of older works. In what could be a world-first, the project will also contribute to data collection that will allow…
(18 Nov 2020) Position title: Library Consultant (short-term) Report to: Executive Director/Editor-in-Chief and the ODC Management Team Contract duration: 15 December 2020 to 15 March 2021 Open Development Cambodia (ODC), in collaboration with its partners, is exploring a pilot project to set up new school libraries under the Open Development Library (ODL) Program. The initial…
(11 Nov 2020) After eliminating overdue fees late last year, Chicago Public Library employees saw something that made everyone smile: a jump in the return of books overdue for six months or more. About 1,650 long-overdue books were returned in each of the five months after fines were eliminated Oct. 1, 2019. Before then,…
(Nov 2020) News from the Philippines Association of Academic/Research Librarians: The 2020 PAARL Awards is now open for nominations for the following categories: • Academic Librarian of the Year • Outstanding Academic/Research Library of the Year Award • Outstanding Library Program Award • Innovative Library Design Award Please submit your nominations not later than…