(24 May 2025) The Department of Science and Technology – Forest Products Research and Development Institute (DOST-FPRDI) recently inaugurated its e-Library at Benguet State University in La Trinidad, Benguet, marking a landmark step in the digital transformation of the Institute’s extensive research archives. The launch of the e-Library is the culmination of the project titled “From…
(1 May 2025) Speaker Vijender Gupta is planning to transform the existing library of Delhi Legislative Assembly into a state-of-the-art e-Library through a structured process of digitization, upgrading IT infrastructure, and modern gadgets. The parliament secretariat has extended its support to assist in this digital transformation, said Delhi Legislative Assembly secretariat. The Times of…
(6 Feb 2025) Trove’s newspaper collection continues to grow every day. Trove Partners collaborate with Trove to digitise their collections and make them available online to all Australians. We spoke with 2 of our Trove Partners about their experience working with Trove to digitize some of their local newspapers. The partners are Merri-bek Libraries…
(22 Jan 2025) A new issue of the SEALG Newsletter (January 2025) has been published and is now available online. In this issue, SEALG Annual Meeting, Frankfurt am Main 2024 The Southeast Asia Digital Library: Collaboration as Sustainability Highlighting a Multi-faceted Adventurous Journey to South Korea, the Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Taiwan in 2023:…
(28 Nov 2024) An exhibition with the title “A Silk Road Oasis: Life in Ancient Dunhuang” is currently on display at the British Library, London, until 23 February 2025. The oasis of Dunhuang, in today’s northwest China, was established in 111 BCE as a military outpost. It became a vital resting point for travellers due…
(19 Nov 2024) Catalog records are key to storing and finding digital library materials. As the volume of digital materials continues to grow rapidly, the Library of Congress is exploring whether AI can help catalogers by automating the generation of metadata. AI could provide an opportunity to speed up description workflows. Yet there are numerous machine…
(27 Sep 2024) The New Zealand Listener magazine began its life back in 1939 as the Journal of the National Broadcasting Service, with the purpose of providing radio listeners with a printed weekly programme. With the introduction of television in June 1960, the Listener started publishing weekly TV listings, along with topical articles, editorials, letters to the editor and reviews.…
(20 Sep 2024) The Prado Museum’s new Digital Library, developed with funds from the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (PRTR), offers free access to 5600 issues of magazines and 6000 books specialized in artistic literature and published between the late 15th and early 20th centuries. More than 1,700,000 pages have been digitized, the cataloging…
The collection, assembled over three months and spanning 12 languages, includes Mahatma Gandhi’s collected works, publications such as Harijan and Young India and audio recordings. (26 Aug 2024) The Servants of Knowledge, a non-profit group, has announced that 11,720 books from the library of Bengaluru’s Gandhi Bhavan have been digitized as part of the All…
(9 Jul 2024) Dr Julia Colleen Miller, senior data manager for the Language Data Commons of Australia (LDaCA), shares her personal experience of the managing digitalizing projects including the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC). Find out more here.