(27 Mar 2026) Dr. Chiratidzo Chatikobo, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, shares his observation of attending Charleston Conference Asia in January 2026. His takeaway focuses on 2 main theme, AI-informed collection development, Libraries as publishers within the scholarly communication ecosystem. Read more here.
(11 Mar 2026) This second helping of videos from the Coalition for Networked Information’s (CNI) fall 2025 membership meeting offers a practical focus on AI applications. How can AI enhance the work of the profession (and automate huge, labor-intensive tasks)? How well can it perform these functions? Where do problems, whether technical or ethical, lie? The following videos cover hot…
(26 Feb 2026) The Annual Meeting and Conference of the Southeast Asia Library Group (SEALG) will take place at the ETH Zurich, Switzerland, on 19 – 20 June 2026. There will also be a guided tour in the late afternoon on 18 June 2026 of the Southeast Asian collection at ETH Zurich. Stephanie Willi, archivist of…
(5 Mar 2026) SMU Libraries is welcoming registration for the Emerging Library Leaders’ Summer School for Asia-Pacific (ELLSSA) 2026! Here’s a message from SMU Libraries, “Dear Colleague, As library leaders, we all want the same thing for our most promising staff: the opportunity to grow beyond what their current role allows. What does that…
(30 Jan 2026) This week, the very first Charleston Conference Asia took place in Bangkok, Thailand at the Royal Orchid Sheraton Hotel. From January 26 through January 28, 2026- well over 600 attendees joined us in person. All three days were packed (literally, many of the sessions were standing room only) with excitement, engaging speakers covering important…
(Jan 5 2026) On November 27, 2025, in Lang Son Province, the National Library of Viet Nam (NLV) organized the Conference – Workshop “Library Services and Products in the Digital Environment.”, which was organized to provide an academic forum for managers, experts, researchers, and technology providers to share experiences, present research findings, identify new trends,…
(16 Dec 2025) Applications are now open to join the International Library Leaders Programme at the British Library, 01-08 July 2026. With over 170 million items in our collection, from Magna Carta to Shakespeare’s First Folio, the British Library is one of the world’s largest national libraries. If you are a mid-career library or archive professional, we invite you…
(23 Oct 2025) CILIP is delighted to announce that the most prestigious international library event – The World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) – will take place in London and across the UK in 2027 after a successful bid by a partnership led by CILIP. We are incredibly proud that the UK has been chosen by…
(20 Nov 2025) On October 17, 2025, COAR and Open Access Australasia co-hosted a meeting on shared repository infrastructure, moderated by Martin Borchert and Kathleen Shearer. The discussion focused on the evolving repository landscape in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand and the growing international movement toward shared platforms. As in many other countries, institutions in the region…
(19 Sept 2025) SMU Libraries is pleased to invite you to an insightful and engaging online event in celebration of UNESCO’s Global Media and Information Literacy Week 2025. This year, the theme is “Minds Over AI – MIL in Digital Spaces,” a topic that couldn’t be more relevant in our rapidly evolving digital world. From Friday,…