(7 Apr 2021) The French Embassy in Vietnam and the National Library of Vietnam on April 7 unveiled a digital library at https://heritage.bnf.fr/france-vietnam. (available in French and Vietnamese) It is considered a “Common Heritage” collection, consisting of more than 2,000 documents from the collections of the two national libraries and partners. The digital…
Japan’s National Diet Library has 4.45 million items in its digital quake database, including over a million photos; physical artefacts are in regional museums Curators are working to make the items easily available to the general public and to preserve remnants of the disaster before they are lost (10 Mar 2021) In Japan, efforts…
(26 Feb 2021) Three new collections are added into the EAP (Endangered Archives Programme) website in February. Manuscripts of the Lanten community in northern Laos Led by Professor Dr Josephus Platenkamp and Joseba Estevez, the EAP791 project team digitised 768 manuscripts owned by private collectors within the Lanten community in northern Laos. Written in…
(23 Feb 2021) Vietnamese government has approved library digitalization program to 2025 with the vision to 2030. This move is considered as a significant step to promote information technology application especially digital technology with the aim to ensure library continuity as Covid-19 puts brake to academic activity. The program goal is to complete…
(17 Dec 2020) The East Asia Digital Library (EADL), a portal site for cultural and scientific resources in East Asian languages, was launched on December 17, 2020. Configuration and operation of the EADL is being performed by the National Library of Korea (NLK) with the cooperation of the National Diet Library (NDL). The EADL…
(17 Dec 2020) The National Library of Mongolia, founded in 1921 as The Institute of Sutras and Scripts, is Mongolia’s oldest and largest library, and entrusted with the mandate to preserve Mongolian national written heritage. As Tibetan was a liturgical language of Mongolia, the Library’s largest holdings are its Tibetan Manuscript Collections. Coming from the…
(1 Dec 2020) The National Library of Australia has the world’s biggest oral history collection conducted at the height of the HIV and Aids epidemic in Australia. ABS has a full interview with Dr Shirleene Robinson (Senior curator of oral history at the National Library of Australia) about the collection and its historical background…
(October 2020) The British Library is nearing the end of a project to make 40,000 early maps and views freely available online for the first time. The material forms part of the Topographical Collection of King George III (K. Top) held by the British Library and captures four centuries of visual impressions of places…
(24 Jul 2020) By its onsite installation, “The Epitome of Aesthetics – New Media Art Exhibition”, National Palace Museum wins the gold award from AAM’s 2020 Media & Technology MUSE Awards at the category of Onsite Digital Experience. “The installation displays a wide range of technological applications that support collection presentation and provide context for…
(24 Jun 2020) From Korean Herald: Military documents produced during the 1950-53 Korean War have been designated as cultural assets and will be open to the public this week in line with the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the conflict, the Army said Wednesday. The 7,521 documents — mainly of operational plans, orders and…