(9 Feb 2022) The Singapore Journal of Library and Information Management (SJLIM) is currently inviting submissions for its 2022 issue, with the theme “The Post-Pandemic Library Era”. We are interested in submissions outlining research as well as practice projects. Opinion pieces and commentaries are also welcome. We accept submissions on all aspects of librarianship that relate…
(26 Jan 2022) The latest issue of the SEALG Newsletter has now been published and can be viewed and downloaded freely from our homepage. It contains the following articles: Nicholas Martland, 1957-2021 (obituary by Pauline Khng) The EFEO in Indochina: A History of Maps and Archives (by Magali Morel and Sovannara Mey) Collecting Information and Artifacts…
(22 Jan 2022) A new cultural park repurposed and renovated from the compound of late President Chiang Ching-kuo (蔣經國) opened on Saturday, featuring the nation’s first presidential library. According to the management of the park, the library has also partnered up with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University to display Chiang’s diaries from the…
(23 Jan 2022) The National Central Library of Taiwan (NCL) has completed the digitization of over 30,000 pages of rare Chinese books in collaboration with the libraries of Oxford University and Stanford University, the NCL said in a statement issued Sunday. The cooperation with the Stanford University Libraries focuses on the digitization of a…
(20 Jan 2022) The 98-year-old National Library was built in 1924 by the French-colonial government in Indochina. In 1954 – after Cambodia gained independence from France – the library was renamed from the Central Library to the National Library of Cambodia (NLC). Currently, the library has over 120,000 books, sastra and palm leaf manuscripts, documents…
(14 Jan 2022) Coursera is partnering with K-MOOC and the National Institute for Lifelong Education (NILE) to launch a nationwide upskilling program in South Korea. The initiative will help over 200,000 adult learners develop the high-demand digital skills needed to advance their education and careers in the new economy and embrace lifelong learning amid rapid…
(13 Jan 2022) Three years, four months and one long pandemic later, the National University of Singapore (NUS) Libraries Central Library revamp is finally complete! The university’s flagship library began progressively closing its floors in June 2018 to facilitate construction works, and had just completed Phases 1 and 2 of its revamp in Q1 2020…
(8 Jan 2022) Sinjhuang District (新莊) is to become a hub for Taiwanese cinema, New Taipei City Mayor Hou You-yi (侯友宜) told a ceremony yesterday to open the Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute’s new base. With the new facility completed, the city government hopes that a plan to build a cinema museum nearby would start…
(4 Jan 2022) With the December 31, 2021, retirement of Mr. TANAKA Hisanori, Ms. KATAYAMA Nobuko has been named Deputy Director General of the National Diet Library, effective January 1, 2022. Since joining the National Diet Library in 1986, Ms. Katayama has served as director general of the Kansai-kan of the National Diet Library, the…
(17 Dec 2021) CONZUL (The Council of New Zealand University Libraries) has recently announced its strategic priorities for 2022-2025. Read more about the strategy here.