(30 Mar 2021) The International Library of Children’s Literature (ILCL) of the National Diet Library (NDL) was established in 2000 as the sole national library dedicated to children’s books. In response to the Report of the Board of Inquiry on Expansion of Library Services of the ILCL (2005), the ILCL formulated the Second Basic Plan…
(30 Jul 2021) From Library Association of Singapore: Dear Members We will be extending the submission deadline for the call for presenters to no later than Tuesday 10 August 2021, 6pm. There will be no further extensions after that. A gentle reminder to lock in 6 October 2021! LAS & PPM are extremely excited about…
(30 Jul 2021) National Taiwan University (NTU) has agreed to house a memorial library to former president Lee Teng-hui (李登輝) at its College of Law building on Xuzhou Road in Taipei, the Lee Teng-hui Foundation announced yesterday. On the eve of the first anniversary of the former president’s death, the foundation, the Taiwan Association of…
A children’s mobile library run by a Japanese expat in northern Thailand has become more important than ever during the coronavirus pandemic. (14 Jul 2021) Horiuchi Yoshimi sees books as “friends” for the youngsters in the remote, rural areas she visits. The 37-year-old remembers how reading shaped her own childhood. Born with weak eyesight, Horiuchi…
New catalog information service corresponding to digital resources to be introduced from 2022 (7 Jul 2021) National Institute of Informatics (NII; Director General: Dr. KITSUREGAWA Masaru, Tokyo, Japan) has begun reconstruction of NACSIS-CAT/ILL, a catalog information service used by more than 1,300 institutions, mainly university libraries. This project is based on “The Vision on Future…
(13 Jul 2021) For the first time, veteran Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Pang will not display any political books at his booth as the global financial hub holds its first book fair since the event began in 1990 under a new national security law. Cancelled last year due to the coronavirus, the book fair resumes…
(18 Jun 2021) Stanford Libraries is embarking on an exciting collaboration with the National Central Library of Taiwan (NCL) to digitize a selection of Chinese rare books in the holdings of the East Asia Library and the Bowes Art & Architecture Library. The scanned titles will be added to the NCL’s Rare Books and Special Collections…
(12 Jul 2021) New Zealand: The National Library will donate 600,000 books that it was planning to cull from its overseas collection to a United States-based internet archive that will make digital copies of the works freely available online. (official press release) National Librarian Rachel Esson announced the “historic” agreement on Monday, saying books…
(19 May 2021) The digitization of Chinese classics is challenging, as Chinese ancient characters are complex. Throughout history, one Chinese character might have several variants and written forms. Digitizing Chinese ancient books through optical character recognition (OCR) not only facilitates machine reading but also gives a new life to numerous ancient books for public peruse. …
When they realised even Miles Franklin winners can be sent to the pulp pile, authors, librarians and academics began building a digital ark for bereft books (24 Jun 2021) Of the 62 books that won Australia’s Miles Franklin Award between 1957 and 2019, 23 are currently not available as ebooks, 40 are not available…