By Gina de Alwis Jayasuriya* (27 Dec 2021) At the 10th A-LIEP conference Apple Jusayan and Rhea Rowena Apolinario of the School of Library of Information Studies, University of the Philippines – Diliman, presented a paper on Developing a Makerspace for the Marikina Public Library: A Journey in Artisan Shoemaking. The authors’ vision is…
By Gina de Alwis Jayasuriya* (26 Nov 2021) John Hickok is a familiar name to many of us in the LIS profession in Asia. As Library Faculty, International Outreach Librarian at the California State University Fullerton since 1997, John has been providing library outreach and instruction to international students who come from diverse cultural populations in…
(16 Nov 2021) Over 250 publishers, researchers, librarians, and research funders registered for the CHORUS Forum: Are We Ready for Data Citation Metrics held on 28 October 2021. This forum was co-hosted with the American Geophysical Union. Shelley Stall, Senior Director for Data Leadership at AGU, kicked off a lively discussion by conveying the challenges around…
(3 Nov 2021) The Show US the Data virtual conference held on October 20, 2021 was a great success with over 500 registrants.It showed that automated search and discovery tools were possible to develop and that those tools could be used to find and close some gaps between what agencies know about how their data are being…
(5 Nov 2021) The annual conference of the National Committee for Information Resources on Asia (NACIRA), UK, is taking place virtually on 30 November 2021, 13:00-17:00. The conference theme is “Lessons and reflections: new ways of working in the pandemic era“. Talks and paper presentations on the day include: “Research Libraries and Public Engagement: A new future?”…
(26 Oct 2021) National Library Board, Singapore and the IFLA Regional Office for Asia and Oceania, in support of the IFLA Global Vision are jointly holding an online event: Leaders’ Conversations 2021 – Visualising Our Future: Masterplans of Libraries and Archives. Below is the announcement: What is the FUTURE of libraries and archives? Find out more…
By Gina de Alwis Jayasuriya* Living with COVID-19 has meant curbs on travelling and the inability to attend my favourite conferences and other professional events in person. However, I discovered a positive side to being grounded. Nearer home, many professional events were being moved to a virtual environment offering great opportunities to get insights…
(17 Sep 2021) The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs), which were adopted by all UN member states, seek to end poverty, save the Earth, and achieve global peace and prosperity. Libraries play a key role in achieving these goals as well, and the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) has been galvanizing library associations…
(Sep 2021) About the online event: Date: 18 Oct 2021 to 28 Oct 2021 Following the postponement of International Data Week to June 2022 (hybrid and onsite in Seoul, Republic of Korea), it was decided to hold Virtual SciDataCon 2021 with a series of sessions from Mon 18 October to Thu 28 October. The following themes will be covered:…
(24 August 2021) Scholarly data has become one of the most important components of Open Science. Governments and funders are mandating that researchers deposit their data in repositories and supply supporting metadata. This extra work will only get done if researchers are given proper credit for their data outputs. But, how prepared is the scholarly…