(16 Jul 2022) Construction of the southern branch of the National Central Library is to begin in September, after a bid of NT$5.7 billion (US$190.3 million) was accepted for the project, the library said at a contract-signing ceremony in Taipei yesterday. Work on the new branch, which was initially approved by the Executive Yuan on…
(19 Jul 2022) NDL is holding an online forum, “Digital Archive Festival 2022 – Japan Search Day” on 25th August. The forum will be conducted in Japanese. More information can be found here (in Japanese).
(19 Jun 2022) A stone plaquette detailing the establishment of what could have been the first public library and museum in Madurai in the year 1942, has been rediscovered in Pudhumandapam near Meenakshi temple in Madurai. The plaquette went missing for more than two decades and was found recently when the shops were cleared and…
(14 Jul 2022) Sri Lanka has been witnessing unprecedented unrest, with protesters having occupied the residences of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who is set to tender his resignation, and acting President and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. Protesters could be seen engaging in a variety of activities inside the official residences, from gardening to playing carrom. In…
(7 Jul 2022) State-owned independent think tank Institute for Development Studies (IDS) is set to work with the state library to build up data for the North Borneo History Research Centre (NBHRC). Sabah IDS chairman Datuk Adeline Leong said it would be collaborating with the state library in efforts to build up the centre that…
Upon seeing the revitalised library in Taman Ismail Marzuki, in Jakarta, Indonesia, Malaysians wished that local libraries had the same aesthetic and accessibility to cultivate a genuine interest in reading and literature. (13 Jul 2022) Perpustakaan Jakarta Cikini in Taman Ismail Marzuki, Jakarta, Indonesia has been revived with a new look and Indonesians are not…
(7 Jul 2022) On June 24, 2022, the 5th Forum for World STM Journals, hosted by the Chinese Association for Science and Technology (CAST) and the People’s Government of Hunan Province, opened in Changsha. SciOpen, an international digital publishing platform for STM journals independently developed by Tsinghua University Press, was officially launched at the opening ceremony of the forum. …
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(7 Jun 2022) China plans a sweeping makeover of mainland academic journals, turning them into world-class organs similar to British weekly Nature and peer-reviewed US publication Science, to raise the profile and influence of domestic scientific research, local authorities said in Beijing on Monday. The initiative was announced at a press conference co-hosted by the China Association…
(24 Jun 2022) China’s internet watchdog has launched a cybersecurity investigation into the country’s largest online academic research database, China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), intensifying Beijing’s scrutiny of the firm more than a month after it was put under an antitrust inquiry. The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) initiated its investigation on the grounds that the privately-owned CNKI holds a large…