(21 Sept 2020) The Queen Mother Library was inaugurated on Monday at the Sleu Rith Institute (SRI) on Preah Sihanouk Boulevard in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The library was established by the Documentation Centre of Cambodia (DC-Cam) and is named after Queen Mother Norodom Monineath Sihanouk. The library consists of thousands of books and boxes…
(2 Sept 2020) A sports museum in Tokyo is leading the way in the creation of a network with similar organizations across Japan, aiming to protect and preserve valuable pieces of the nation’s athletic history. That there is no shared system under which the pieces of memorabilia — including medals and reference materials — are…
(27 Sept 2020) China will set up an International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to facilitate the implementation of the UN 2030 Agenda, announced Chinese President XI Jinping during his UN General Assembly address on September 22, 2020. The SDGs are a collection of 17 interlinked goals set in 2015…
(27 Sept 2020) The American Library Association’s (ALA) Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) released the Top 100 Most Banned and Challenged Books from the past decade. The list’s release launches Banned Books Week, Sept. 27 – Oct. 3, a vibrant week of programming to rally readers to the cause of First Amendment protections and remind them to…
The National Library is halfway through a project to review and rehome 600,000 books from its overseas published collections. Below are answers to some questions we’ve been asked a number of times during the project. (28 Sept 2020) Bill Macnaught, New Zealand’s National Librarian, answers to some frequently asked questions to the hotly debated…
A guide for universities, colleges, and tertiary and higher education institutions (20 Sept 2020) Universities and other higher education institutions have a critical role in helping society achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through their research, learning and teaching, campus operations, and leadership. One of the most important ways they can contribute to this is to…
(26 Sept 2020) Kolkata has combined its two major attractions — tram and College Street — and created a unique attraction during the pandemic. The city popular for its libraries and list of famous academicians, has launched a ‘tram library’ that will operate on the College Street. The initiative has been launched by state’s West Bengal…
(15 Jul 2020) IIUM (International Islamic University of Malaysia) created history last week when it was awarded the prestigious Green Gown International Award for the 2020 Sustainability Institution of the Year. This was announced in conjunction of the UN High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, July 8th, in New York. The feat…
(22 Sept 2020) IOP Publishing (IOPP) is revolutionising peer review learning with the launch of the world’s first peer review certification programme dedicated to the physical sciences. ‘Peer review excellence: IOP training and certification’ will give early career researchers the ability to review with confidence, increasing trust and standardising the quality of the process. …
(24 Sept 2020) The Initiative for Open Abstracts (I4OA) calls on all scholarly publishers to open the abstracts of their publications, and specifically to distribute them through Crossref, in order to facilitate large-scale access and promote discovery of critical research. I4OA – a collaboration between scholarly publishers, academic librarians, researchers, infrastructure providers and other stakeholders – will launch at…