(20 Feb 2020) Librarians are increasingly the target of violence and anti-social behaviour in Auckland, according to a new report. There were 533 incidents where council staff called its security team, including 60 where police were involved, in the three months to December 2019. Read the full report here.
(20 Feb 2020) Libraries and bookstores have joined hands to build 18 mini-libraries in temporary hospitals in China’s Wuhan, the epicenter of the novel coronavirus outbreak, to lend “spiritual support” to patients there. The full story is here.
(14 Feb 2020) Due to the limit of storage capacity, the National Library of New Zealand has decided to rehome 600,000 titles of its overseas published collections to libraries who are interested in taking them. The decision has been announced in late 2019 which raised some debates between readers and librarians. Here are some of…
(9 Feb 2020) A new A$225 million (S$209 million) school in Sydney has caused a stir after it opened with state-of-the-art facilities – but no library. Instead, the Arthur Phillip High School in the Sydney district of Parramatta will have “iHubs”, which will have digital resources and some hard copy books. Other books will be available…
(5 Feb 2020) Seventy-six publishing houses in Beijing have opened up their digital libraries, putting free online courses, digital music, e-books, and audiobooks on the internet for the public. With abundant digital teaching materials, the Beijing Publishing Group has offered free e-books and online courses to teachers and students on its Jing Ban Cloud (http://www.jingbanyun.com/),…
(28 Jan 2020) National Institute of Informatics (NII, Director General: Masaru Kitsuregawa, Tokyo, JAPAN) signed an international exchange agreement (Memorandum of Understanding: MOU) with the Center for Open Science (COS, Executive Director: Professor Brian Nosek, Charlottesville, Virginia, US) in the United States on 29th October 2019. Through this agreement, the two organizations aim to contribute…
(7 Feb 2020) EIFL and partners will train teams from 19 universities in Yangon and Mandalay to upload open access publications to the Myanmar Education Research and Learning Portal (MERAL). The trainers are Iryna Kuchma, EIFL Open Access Programme Manager, and from the National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Japan, EIFL’s partner in the MERAL Portal project, Masaharu Hayashi, Project Assistant…
(updated 20 Jul 2020) Due to the recent outbreak of coronavirus, several countries have made the decision to postpone school openings or hold activities. Librarylearningspace.com has collected the latest news here. Australia: Universities to resume teaching and research (8 May) Australian states and capital declare state of emergency, as govt mulls second stimulus (16 Mar)…
(4 Feb 2020) the No.95, February 2020 newsletter for Conference of Directors of National Libraries in Asia and Oceania (CDNLAO) is now published. Special topic: Research in library and information service [China] Research Activities at the National Library of China: An Introduction [Japan] NDL Research Report [Singapore] Research in Information Service and Client Research Services at the National…
(3 Feb 2020) A new issue of the SEALG Newsletter (2019) has been published and is now available online. Included in the Newsletter is the report of our group’s Annual Meeting that took place in June 2019 in Leiden. In addition to this detailed report by Marije Plomp, the latest issue of the Newsletter contains the following…
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