(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,…
(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…