(6 Apr 2025) A Wellington Library is trialling a new way of cataloguing its mātauranga Māori books, organising them by atua (deity) rather than by the Dewey Decimal system. Bridget Jennings is the Senior Cataloguing Specialist at Wellington City Libraries, she said they wanted to create a structure for the library’s collections based on how…
(24 Mar 2025) Tanaka Ryonosuke of the Acquisitions and Bibliography Department, National Diet Library, introduces the transition of the Japanese National Bibliography from paper-based formats to digital data, now known as the Japanese National Bibliographic Data in this article. It began with “Nohon Geppo” in 1948 and evolved to digital formats with JAPAN/MARC in…
(2 Apr 2025) Several months ago, HSEO colleagues contacted the University Archives for help ensuring that important information about HKUST’s response to and handling of the recent pandemic doesn’t just vanish into the digital ether. We’re excited to share highlights from our recent project to archive HKUST’s COVID-19 resources. It has been a complex digital…
(25 Mar 2025) Open Source Software (OSS) “plays a critical role in the global technology ecosystem. It fosters collaboration, transparency, and innovation, providing a foundation for modern computing and research.” This paper presents the results of a birds-of-a-feather workshop held at the 2025 eResearch NZ / eRangahau Aotearoa conference in February. Find out more here.
(25 Mar 2025) Taiwanese universities this year canceled 86 programs, Ministry of Education data showed, with educators attributing the closures to the nation’s low birthrate as well as shifting trends. Fifty-three of the shuttered programs were part-time postgraduate degree programs, about 62 percent of the total, the most in the past five years, the data…
(20 Mar 2025) Abstract: Introduction: Libraries hold large amounts of bibliographic data, with great potential for enrichment with linked open data. The New Zealand Thesis Project explored this potential by uploading thesis metadata records from New Zealand institutional repositories to Wikidata, a collaborative linked data knowledge base. Description of Project: Nine New Zealand tertiary institutions collaborated…
(20 Mar 2025) The Tertiary Education Commission [of New Zealand] has indicated some tertiary institutions could face funding cuts next year. The commission’s annual guidance to institutions said they should not assume their funding would increase or even be maintained next year. “Total funding available for Vote Tertiary Education will be limited and we…
(17 Mar 2025) Three local universities officially submitted their proposals to the government to establish the city’s third medical school on Monday. The Task Group on New Medical School confirmed that it has received proposals from Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU), the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) and the Hong Kong University of Science and…
(18 Mar 2025) The CDNLAO Newsletter is published to share information from national libraries in the Asia and Oceania region. This newsletter is edited and distributed by the National Diet Library of Japan on behalf of the members of the Conference of Directors of National Libraries in Asia and Oceania (CDNLAO). In this issue, [United Arab…
(19 Mar 2025) The CAS Journal Ranking Team releases Early Warning Journal List 2025(EWL)! The 2025 edition of the EWL targets two key concerns: 1) Academic misconduct that jeopardizes the integrity of the scientific research ecosystem, including practices like Citation Manipulation and operation of Paper Mills; 2) Inappropriate actions that hinder the global dissemination of specific…