(10 Sept 2025) A koala walks into a library. No, it’s not the beginning of a disappointing dad joke. Although our furry friend was probably livid that they’d turned all its beloved trees into books, it still decided to pay a visit. The special guest made its surprise appearance at the Campbelltown Public Library last…
(10 Sept 2025) The distinct scent of thousands of new books fills the air of a warehouse in Changi South. It is not a bookshop but the Library Supply Centre (LSC), where some 3,000 brand new books are catalogued and processed daily. In a year, the volume of materials processed in the warehouse exceeds…
(22 Sep 2025) After a summer break during the peak heat, the Seoul Outdoor Library will reopen on September 5 and run through November 2, the city government announced Thursday. The library will operate evenings (4 p.m. to 10 p.m.) throughout September before shifting to daytime hours (11 a.m. to 6 p.m.) in late October as…
(25 Aug 2025) The Delhi High Court has ordered a ban on the shadow library Sci-Hub and its mirror websites in India on August 19, 2025, directed the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) and the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY) to notify Internet Service Providers to block access to these websites within 24 hours.…
(26 Aug 2025) This year’s Annual Meeting and Conference of the Southeast Asia Library Group for the first time took place in beautiful Passau in Lower Bavaria, Germany, on 26-28 June 2025. It was hosted by the Chair of Critical Development Studies – Southeast Asia at the University of Passau. We would like to express our sincere…
(18 Aug 2025) New Delhi, The government, through the Raja Rammohun Roy Library Foundation under the Ministry of Culture, has recently launched a significant initiative to compile and maintain a comprehensive, “national-level dynamic database” of public libraries across the country, Parliament was informed on Monday. The Ministry of Culture, through the RRRLF, Kolkata an…
The conference is an interdisciplinary forum for delegates to present research results, share and discuss innovations, trends and practical challenges in the field of libraries and academic publishing. (20 Aug 2025) On August 20, in Gia Lai, the Vietnam Science Association and the International Center for Interdisciplinary Science and Education (ICISE) opened the “International Conference on Information…
As more libraries relocate to malls for greater accessibility, some patrons mourn the loss of quiet sanctuaries. (24 Jul 2025) Currently, 13 of NLB’s 28 public libraries are in malls, while a handful are housed in integrated complexes such as community centers. Once the relocations are complete, the conserved Queenstown library and the Bishan…
(11 Aug 2025) In the presence of a tightly rolled, yellowed scroll in the State Library of Victoria, it is hard not to feel a bit awe-struck. Inside a glass cabinet in the centre of the library sits the oldest known mass-printed text in the world, the Hyakumantō Darani. The finger-length item is a…
(7 Aug 2025) Lo Chandy, a librarian in Pursat province’s floating villages, is on a mission with NGO Sipar Cambodia to bring books to children who have never had access to a real library. Chandy, 24, who is also the library educator, said the first library in these Bakan district villages has created an interest…