(8 Mar 2022) National Library of New Zealand is archiving the diversity of voices and reactions to the 2022 Wellington protests, from ephemeral placards and signs to born-digital tweets and live video streams. See how they collect and archive the events while the library building was in the center of the happening. The full…
(2 Mar 2022) The National Diet Library has released the report of a research project on the response to COVID-19 by public libraries in Japan, which was conducted during fiscal 2021 in cooperation with the Japan Library Association. In the project, an online questionnaire survey was conducted for all public libraries in Japan, and…
(1 Mar 2022) The 12th conference of the European Association for Southeast Asian Studies (EuroSEAS) will take place at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), on the new Campus Condorcet at Paris-Aubervilliers, France, from 28 June to 1 July 2022. One of the panels is organised by Marije Plomp (Leiden University Libraries) and Jana Igunma (British Library) on behalf of the Southeast…
(28 Feb 2022) The Delhi government is all set to develop a “Science Innovation Hub” to promote scientific culture among students. The club consists of an auditorium, a library, a planetarium, a museum with science and technological objects etc. More details can be found from the original news here.
(24 Feb 2022) The CDNLAO Newsletter is published to share information from national libraries in the Asia and Oceania region. This newsletter is edited and distributed by the National Diet Library of Japan on behalf of the members of the Conference of Directors of National Libraries in Asia and Oceania (CDNLAO). This issue focuses…
(24 Feb 2022) According to the latest data from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism [of Korea], 62 smart libraries built with the ministry budget were used more than 1.24 million times in 2020, up 62.6 percent from 776,850 in 2019. “The demand for smart libraries is increasing every year,” said Kwon Tae-wook, a…
(21 Feb 2022) China’s national higher education policy has entered its second phase, with the government releasing the updated list of Double First Class (DFC) programme universities. The scheme was launched in 2015 and pushed the country’s higher education sector on an upwards trajectory by increasing funding allocations for those universities and specific academic disciplines…
(22 Feb 2022) The new Library and Student Experience Building at the University of Tasmania’s (UTAS) Inveresk Campus was officially opened today, signifying an exciting step for students and the communities of Launceston and Northern Tasmania. The new building is part of a $130 million investment by the Morrison Government under the Jobs and Growth…
(18 Feb 2022) A team in Penang, Malaysia, gave the local abandoned phone booths a new look by transforming them into mini libraries for the community. Penggerak Komuniti Muda (PEKA), an organization that aims to empower youth, was looking for a way to encourage the younger generation to pick up the reading habit. The…
(31 Jan 2022) For the first time in Australia, an assessment of the value of persistent identifiers to research is underway. Persistent Identifiers are vital to research because they create a persistent link to a location on the internet for journal papers, data, software, physical samples and grey literature. This facilitates citation, attribution, discovery and…