(5 Jun 2023) More than 1 billion people around the world have some type of disability (including visual, hearing, cognitive, learning, mobility, and other disabilities) that affects how they access digital content. No wonder we spend so much time talking about accessibility tools! Digital transformation can revolutionize the world, turning it into an inclusive place…
(23 May 2023) The core mission of libraries is to ensure perpetual access to the record of knowledge. As a review of the NASIG webinar (formerly North American Serials Interest Group), ‘Integrating Preservation into Librarian Workflows’, by Jill Emery and Sunshine Carter, this article examines working models constructed to sustain perpetual access for their institutional…
(8 Jun 2023) For scientists submitting their papers to journals, there’s an all-too-familiar drill: spend hours formatting the paper to meet the journal’s guidelines; if the paper is rejected, sink more time into reformatting it for another journal; repeat. Now an analysis has put a price tag on all that busy work: US$230 million worth…
(23 May 2023) In this blog post, Alejandro Marquez, a Collection Development Librarian, discusses the challenges librarians face, including a lack of advancement opportunities, low pay compared to education levels, and a culture that overvalues busyness. Despite these issues, Marquez remains hopeful, offering solutions such as making career paths explicit, avoiding non-promotable tasks, and implementing…
(13 Jun 2023) The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) announces that results from the 2022 Academic Library Trends and Statistics survey are now available. This is the largest survey of academic libraries in the country, providing one of the most comprehensive portraits of the impact of academic libraries across the United States. The…
(2 Jun 2023) What does a data curator do? What are their daily tasks? What is challenging and rewarding about the job? The LIBER Research Data Management (RDM) Working Group explores these questions and more in their recently published interview with Data Curator, Matthias Töwe. Read on for an overview of the conversation and learn…
(12 Jun 2023) The National Library Board’s (NLB) new Borrow-n-Deliver initiative – a one-year pilot that kicked off on Monday – allows patrons to select up to four items on NLB’s e-catalogue and have them delivered to their home for a fee of $8 (before GST) each time. These items include books, magazines and audio-visual…
(5 Jun 2023) The Australian Music Centre has revealed that development has begun on a new audio library. In partnership with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and ABC Classic, the library will open up access to past and contemporary works by Australian composers across all fields, to traditional scored works as well as electronic and sound…
(6 Jun 2023) Following the success of the first phase of the Translate a Story campaign, UNESCO and the Global Digital Library (GDL), in cooperation with the Agency for Language Development and Cultivation (Badan Bahasa) from the Ministry of Education of Indonesia, jointly organized a translation workshop from 29 May to 2 June in the…
(5 Jun 2023) Key Duties and Responsibilities: The appointee will establish, co-ordinate and implement a comprehensive library services for the university. Leading the development and timely delivery of the Library’s strategic plans, policies and services consistent with the university mission; Providing direction to university administration in deployment of library services to support teaching, learning,…