(12 Dec 2022) The Neilson Hays Library in Bangkok has received an Award of Distinction at the Unesco Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation. The jury’s statement noted that: “The project sets a welcome benchmark for the restoration of early 20th-century buildings of Western architectural design in humid tropical environments.” The Neilson Hays…
(14 Dec 2022) The University of Sydney and the University of Melbourne libraries are working together to increase the use of their unique special collections and archives by extending access to people who cannot attend campus by using practices established in recent years. This project is linked to an international initiative to increase access to…
(7 Dec 2022) Hong Kong Baptist University has signed a groundbreaking Read & Publish licensing agreement with the Royal Society of Chemistry. This means that authors from the university are now able to publish Open Access in Royal Society of Chemistry journals, for no additional fee, and also have access to read the full range…
(1 Dec 2022) This absence of a reading culture among Filipinos was challenged even more by the Covid pandemic. How have our libraries coped in the last three years? How have our librarians adjusted to widespread digitalization? What is the future of our libraries after the pandemic? These questions were all discussed at the roundtable…
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(5 Dec 2022) Recently CAUL has announced several read and publish agreements with major publishers, including SAGE, Elsevier, and Taylor & Francis, among a few. It seems that Australia is achieving progressively preparing its research environment to be aligned with open access policy by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC). However, concerns…
(18 Nov 2022) Whether it’s the news of the day, or the pop culture of yester-year, so much of New Zealand’s history has been captured on tape and film. But what happens when those file types grow old, and the technology to play them is obsolete? Ngā Taonga, New Zealand’s audiovisual archive, have partnered with…
(1 Dec 2022) Mao Kolap, vice-president of Cambodian Librarian Associations, said yesterday that Cambodia requires more qualified librarians to match the standards of advanced libraries in other Asean countries. According to a report by the Cambodian Library Association, there are only three graduated librarians, while there are 400 librarians in public schools, and about…
(6 Dec 2022) Delegates from across the Pacific are on Saipan for the four-day 31st Annual Pacific Islands Association of Libraries, Archives, and Museum or PIALA Conference. PIALA president and Joeten-Kiyu Public Library Director Erlinda C. Naputi on Monday said the association is committed to fostering awareness and encouraging cooperation and resource sharing among Pacific…
(26 Nov 2022) The country is celebrating National Book Week from November 24 to 30 amid the struggle to arrest Filipino learners’ dwindling reading proficiency. Even before the pandemic struck, international large-scale assessments showed that learners were already struggling to meet the minimum required proficiency in reading, according to Senator Sherwin Gatchalian, chair of the…