(11 Aug 2021) The Papers Past website is a goldmine of information, with millions of pages of digitised historical content from all over New Zealand. Papers Past first saw the light of day in August 2001. Over its 20 year life-span there are have been a number of iterations. Tracy Powell, Digitisation Advisor, gives a brief history…
(11 Aug 2021) In early August, a Philippine-published book made it to the top of Amazon’s list of “Hot New Releases.” With its intimidating title, “Boxer Codex: A Modern Spanish Transcription and English Translation of 16th-Century Exploration Accounts of East and Southeast Asia and the Pacific”—whew!—even its publisher was surprised the tome entered the number…
(8 Aug 2021) Seoul-based private equity house MBK Partners founder and chairman Michael Byung-ju Kim has pledged to donate 30 billion won ($26.5 million) to the Seoul Metropolitan Government to build a public library in Seoul, MBK Partners said Sunday. The gift represents the first case where an individual‘s donation covers the entire cost…
(5 Aug 2021) One of Taiwan’s leading medical research institutions, the National Health Research Institutes (NHRI), and open-access publisher Frontiers have announced a publishing deal effective as of August 2021. Established in 1995, NHRI is one of Asia’s leading medical research and healthcare institutions. It focuses on fields including aging, cancer, infectious diseases and vaccine research, genomic medicine, biomedical…
(Aug 2021) From the National Library of the Philippines: As part of the celebration of the 31st Library and Information Services Month, the National Library of the Philippines (NLP) will be publishing the “Impact Stories of Libraries in the Philippines Book III.” This publication will be made possible through the assistance of different libraries…
(30 Mar 2021) The International Library of Children’s Literature (ILCL) of the National Diet Library (NDL) was established in 2000 as the sole national library dedicated to children’s books. In response to the Report of the Board of Inquiry on Expansion of Library Services of the ILCL (2005), the ILCL formulated the Second Basic Plan…
(30 Jul 2021) From Library Association of Singapore: Dear Members We will be extending the submission deadline for the call for presenters to no later than Tuesday 10 August 2021, 6pm. There will be no further extensions after that. A gentle reminder to lock in 6 October 2021! LAS & PPM are extremely excited about…
(30 Jul 2021) National Taiwan University (NTU) has agreed to house a memorial library to former president Lee Teng-hui (李登輝) at its College of Law building on Xuzhou Road in Taipei, the Lee Teng-hui Foundation announced yesterday. On the eve of the first anniversary of the former president’s death, the foundation, the Taiwan Association of…
A children’s mobile library run by a Japanese expat in northern Thailand has become more important than ever during the coronavirus pandemic. (14 Jul 2021) Horiuchi Yoshimi sees books as “friends” for the youngsters in the remote, rural areas she visits. The 37-year-old remembers how reading shaped her own childhood. Born with weak eyesight, Horiuchi…
New catalog information service corresponding to digital resources to be introduced from 2022 (7 Jul 2021) National Institute of Informatics (NII; Director General: Dr. KITSUREGAWA Masaru, Tokyo, Japan) has begun reconstruction of NACSIS-CAT/ILL, a catalog information service used by more than 1,300 institutions, mainly university libraries. This project is based on “The Vision on Future…