New research project on mis/disinformation in library collections in Australia. (21 April 2021) ALIA is pleased to announce it is currently seeking applications from LIS researchers to lead/undertake a six-month research project on mis/disinformation in library collections in Australia. The issue of mis/disinformation, and a wider issue of community trust, has recently been…
How do you move 20,000 heritage newspapers from Whanganui to Wellington? And no, the answer isn’t one paper at a time. Planning and a dedicated team are key. (21 Apr 2021) Wairere House in Whanganui has housed National Library collections for more than 20 years…Although the building has served the National Library for over two…
(18 Apr 2021) Chinese authorities have ordered primary and secondary schools to rid their libraries of books that may lead to veneration of the West at the expense of promoting patriotism. The move by the Ministry of Education took effect around April 1. Elementary, middle and high schools are expected to focus on so-called Xi…
(27 Apr 2021) A virtual conference will be jointly held by the Library Association of Singapore (LAS) and Persatuan Pustakawan Malaysia (PPM) on Wednesday 6 October 2021, 10 am to 5 pm. The Conference theme is Collab | Camaraderie | Commune. Collab – collaborations between libraries; Camaraderie – we are in it together; and Commune – we are a community and…
(Apr 2021) From National Diet Library Newsletter: With the COVID-19 pandemic, remote library services are becoming more and more important. In this article, we would like to introduce the NDL’s online services and examples of their use: Digital Exhibitions of the National Diet Library The digital exhibitions introduce unique collections of the NDL with…
(1 Apr 2021) ALIA has published a report, ALIA working for special libraries 2016-2021, which highlights the Association’s initiatives in supporting Australian special libraries over the last five years. In 2016, at the ALIA National Conference in Adelaide, 28 leaders from special libraries in government, health, law, research and other fields came together to discuss the…
(14 Apr 2021) On the last day of 2020, the Chinese Academy of Sciences issued the first Early Warning List of International Journals. While it includes just 65 journals, the list disproportionately targets journals that are fully open access (OA) and attract a high volume of Chinese content in absolute or relative terms, notably IEEE Access, several…
A new library and community center in Nasushiobara by the Japanese architecture studio of Mari Ito, UAo, takes its cues from forests (10 Apr 2021) The city of Nasushiobara has just got a new library and community centre courtesy of the dynamic Japanese architecture studio of Mari Ito, UAo. A geometric composition out of…
(21 Apr 2021) The Library of Southeast Asian Studies at the University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg in Frankfurt recently catalogued two Indonesian leftist journals both entitled “API – Api Pemuda Indonesia” (‘Flames of Indonesian Youth’) which were published in Tirana in Albania from the 1960s onwards. Actually, two different editions of API were issued, one…
(18 Mar 2021) In 2020, Thailand was third, after China and Vietnam, on Nature Index’s list of rising countries in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region…From an even lower base, Indonesia and Vietnam rank fourth and fifth on the APAC rising countries list. Malaysia, with more than 2,200 researchers per million people — second only to Singapore, which has 6,730…