(29 Nov 2023) Nominations for the ALIA Library Design awards are open. Whether it’s a refurbishment or new build, make a feature of your library’s design and celebrate excellence in library infrastructure. Nominate before 8 March 2024: https://buff.ly/3QXEkFn
(21 Nov 2023) The National Library Board (NLB) is poised to revolutionize the public’s interaction with literature by launching multiple artificial intelligence (AI) services, including a chatbot, an AI image generation service, and a real-time visualization system. Read more here.
(23 Nov 2023) Sri Lanka’s national archives and libraries will go online with digitalisation, Chairman of the National Library and Documentation Services Board Professor Nanda Dharmaratna said. “We are now in the digital age, where the library system has a major role to play. We selected 25 libraries from the 25 districts and digitalised…
(15 Nov 2023) The first fully digital library in Kuala Lumpur is now operational in Bandar Tun Razak, with more than 4,400 electronic books for visitors. Pustaka KL Digital Madani was built by Malaysian Resources Corporation Bhd (MRCB) and is currently managed by Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL). It is equipped with 28 desktop…
(14 Nov 2023) A report released today aimed to provide a better understanding of how research assessment affects research in Australia. More than 1,000 Australian researchers and more than 50 research organisations participated in the survey. This included universities, research institutes, industry bodies, government and not-for-profit organisations. The majority of researchers (74%) were in academic roles.…
(6 Nov 2023) Consciously avoiding the word “disability” in the shelf labeling, the library opted for terms such as “books to consider diversity.” All people experience declines in vision and mobility, to a greater or lesser extent, as they age. The need to make reading barrier-free is, therefore, an issue that concerns everyone. The story…
(19 Oct 2023) Vietnam’s community learning model, Compassion Books and House of Wisdom, has been named among Successful Practices Honorees of the 2023 Literacy Awards launched by the Library of the US Congress (LOC). According to the LOC, Compassion Books is now a network of 19,597 bookcases or libraries in more than 3,000 schools…
(25 Oct 2023) On a bright sunny day in August, in a second-floor room at the Gandhi Bhavan Museum in Bengaluru, workers sit in front of five giant tabletop scanners, lining up books and flipping pages with foot pedals. The museum building houses the largest reference library for Gandhian philosophy in the state of Karnataka,…
(8 Nov 2023) South Korea’s online giant Naver Corp. opened Asia’s largest data center in the country to lead technology innovation and accelerate its future growth engine focusing on artificial intelligence and cloud sectors. Naver on Wednesday unveiled the center in Sejong, the country’s administrative city about 150 kilometers (93 miles) south of Seoul, which…
(18 Oct 2023) A new service that increases the availability of e-books at public libraries has led to a nearly 80 percent increase in borrowing in the first month since it was implemented, the Ministry of Culture said yesterday. From last month, people are allowed to borrow 10 e-books from public libraries at a time,…