(19 Oct 2023) To celebrate the upcoming World Day for Audiovisual Heritage 2023 read about the audiovisual digitization project Utaina and watch the video of the Utaina digitization process. Read more here.
(12 Oct 2023) Japan Alliance of University Library Consortia for E-Resources (JUSTICE) and Elsevier have established a transformative agreement in a major step forward in advancing global access to Japan’s scholarly publications through open access publishing. The three-year agreement will take effect from 2024 to 2026. The agreement, the largest of its kind to date…
This article underlines the necessity of advancing from digital literacy to digital fluency in Bangladesh. It explores the role of higher education and libraries in helping the country on its path to becoming a ‘Smart Bangladesh’ by 2041, emphasizing both improvements and challenges in the journey. (13 Oct 2023) Bangladesh has witnessed an explosion in…
(18 Sep 2023) The diaries of former Republic of China (ROC) presidents Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) and Chiang Ching-kuo (蔣經國) arrived in Taiwan on Thursday, and are to be published by Academia Historica from October, the state archives said. The documents, previously housed at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution Library & Archives, were sent by the California…
(3 Oct 2023) Moves are spreading in Japan to set up private libraries where each bookshelf is owned by individuals who display books on their hobbies or those that they recommend. Such libraries are helping revitalize local communities by creating a place where people can mingle through events. Around 50 such facilities have been created…
(10 Oct 2023) The Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) and Open Access Australasia wish to express our joint concerns over the recent introduction of the Article Development Charge (ADC) model by the American Chemical Society (ACS). CAUL Members and others across the Australian scholarly community have expressed many concerns about this development in…
(27 Sep 2023) The Ministry of Universities Malaysia has just issued a notice prohibiting the country’s public universities from using funding from the state budget to pay for publishing articles in all journals belonging to the three publishers MDPI, Hindawi and Frontiers. According to the Ministry of Universities Malaysia, this decision was made due…
(5 Sep 2023) Two years ago Auckland Libraries removed its fines for late returns. Since then, more than a million items have been returned after their due date, meaning millions of dollars of potential fines going unclaimed. But despite the loss of revenue, librarians say it has been an overwhelmingly positive change. Read…
(26 Sep 2023) After a worldwide survey with more than 20,000 votes cast, State Library Victoria came in as the 12th best in the world – now that’s nothing to sneeze at. The survey was conducted by passionate library advocate and Melbourne local Vincent Phan, who runs the popular bibliophile website 1000 Libraries. Here…
(31 Aug 2023) THE Davao City Library and Information Center (CLIC) won two awards from the National Library of the Philippines (NLP) and The Asia Foundation (TAF) on Friday, August 25, 2023. The awarding of the CLIC for the Public Library of the Year Award for the year 2022 and the Most Innovative Public Library…