(27 Oct 2022) Americans have long been much more likely to trust information from local and national news organizations than information on social media sites. This remains the case today, except among the youngest adults. Adults under 30 are now almost as likely to trust information from social media sites as they are to trust…
(10 Oct 2022) The NLB’s 2021 National Reading Habits Study showed that 95 per cent of adults last year consumed reading materials such as the news, online articles and books in their spare time more than once a week – up from 88 per cent in 2018. Teenagers, too, seemed to be reading more for…
(16 Sep 2022) The wave of attempted book banning and restrictions continues to intensify, the American Library Association reported Friday. Numbers for 2022 already approach last year’s totals, which were the highest in decades. “I’ve never seen anything like this,” says Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of the ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom. “It’s both the number…
(5 Sep 2022) Sarawak State Library is awarded the UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy for its program ‘’People Accessible Network for Digital Empowerment & Inclusivity (PANDei)’. Established in 2000, the Sarawak State Library is one of the players appointed by the Sarawak Government in Malaysia to enhance the competency and readiness of all communities in the State…
(7 Sep 2022) To mark International Literacy Day 2022, we’re taking a look at the work done by libraries in Indonesia in order to help the over 8.5 million people lacking basic literacy skills there to develop the capacities they need to participate fully in the knowledge society. IFLA has the story in full.
(8 Sep 2022) On a recent Friday morning, the plaza in front of Seoul City Hall had a group of children browsing through books, lying on bean bag chairs, picnic mats, or swinging benches under the warm sunlight. Brightly colored bookshelves were scattered across the plaza’s open lawn space, beckoning passersby to grab one and…
(11 Aug 2022) Misinformation isn’t a new problem, but it’s becoming increasingly difficult to separate fact from fiction, especially on the internet. Alex Mahadevan, director of MediaWise at the Poynter Institute, wanted to learn more about how people across generational lines verify information and decide what to trust and share online. The survey found that…
(14 Aug 2022) The National Library of Malaysia (PNM) is targeting 81 rural libraries nationwide to participate in the “Dariku Untukmu” Programme in an effort to promote the reading culture among school children in rural areas. Deputy Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture (MOTAC) Datuk Seri Dr. R Santhara Kumar said apart from promoting…
(25 Jul 2022) An Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) study across approximately 30 countries found that teens who said they most often read paper books scored considerably higher on a 2018 reading test taken by 15-year-olds compared to teens who said they rarely or never read books. Even among students of similar socioeconomic backgrounds,…
(10 May 2022) The American Library Association, the American Federation of Teachers and more than a dozen other organizations have formed a coalition to fight the nationwide wave of book bans and challenges. Unite Against Book Bans also includes the publishers Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster and Macmillan, the Authors Guild and the National…