(22 Apr 2020) From National Library of New Zealand blog: In this reading-at-home round-up, we’ve focused on reading content and resources from the National Library Services to Schools, New Zealand, and around the globe that have been curated, developed, or made freely available for this period of home-based learning and reading. It includes links to…
(23 Apr 2020) The COVID-19 pandemic and the global response to it have severely limited public celebration of this year’s World Book Day but online activities continued to promote the power of reading which the UN believes should be leveraged more than ever at a time of lockdown, the Unesco said. A whole day of events…
(16 Apr 2020) One of the key parts of the response to COVID-19 has been the fight against the ‘infodemic’ – the volume of misleading information spreading around the world. With their long-standing role in promoting media and information literacy, libraries have a key potential role to play. Global efforts to combat the COVID-19 pandemic…
Tobias R. Keller, Queensland University of Technology and Rosalie Gillett, Queensland University of Technology Even before the coronavirus arrived to turn life upside down and trigger a global infodemic, social media platforms were under growing pressure to curb the spread of misinformation. Last year, Facebook cofounder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg called for new rules…
(9 Apr 2020) Taiwan’s most popular piracy movie website, 8maple.ru (楓林網), was busted on Wednesday (April 8) in Taoyuan, while its two Taiwanese founders were nabbed, followed by the closure of several other piracy websites the same day. Media reported the illegal websites gimy.tv, pttplay, momovod, and 149mov.com had halted their services. It was believed…
(24 Mar 2020) When five researchers at the University of Washington, Seattle, launched the new Center for an Informed Public back in December 2019, they had no idea what was coming. The center aims to study how misinformation propagates and use the findings to “promote an informed society, and strengthen democratic discourse.” Now, just a few months later,…
Flow Books owner Surdham Lam plans to turn his second-hand book store into the Flow-brary, a lending library with a difference Borrowers can keep their books as long as they like, or until other readers request them (19 Mar 2020) The plight of the bookseller is well documented, and rarely does the story end happily…
(24 Feb 2020) A mini roadside library in Mizoram’s capital Aizawl has gone viral on social media. This roadside library encourages reading habits and helps in building community by providing access to exchange free books. Read more from the New Indian Express here.
(28 Nov 2019) The National Central Library (NCL) will host a major carnival in Taipei next month as part of an annual reading festival to encourage love and appreciation of books, NCL Director-General Tseng Shu-hsien (曾淑賢), said Thursday. The carnival on Dec. 7 in Daan Forest Park and will feature activities such as music performances,…
(3 Nov 2019) When Marco DiCesare started as principal at Caroline Chisholm Catholic College, the school’s library was mostly used as a detention space for unruly students. The books were in detention too, kept in a room behind a locked door only teachers could open. Read the full story on how the transformation of a school…
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