Libraries – Access

IFLA publishes first ever guidelines for libraries supporting displaced persons: Refugees, migrants, immigrants, asylum seekers

LibrariesDecember 17, 2024

(16 Dec 2024) The first ever IFLA Guidelines for Libraries Supporting Displaced Persons grew from a chapter inside the 2017 IFLA Guidelines for library services to people who experience homelessness published by the IFLA Equitable and Accessible Library Services Section (EALS) (formerly Library Services to People with Special Needs – LSN Section). Even at the time the need was…

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ARL releases its annual salary survey for 2023

LibrariesNovember 21, 2024

(20 Nov 2024) The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published the ARL Annual Salary Survey 2023, which analyzes salary data for professional staff working in 126 of the 127 ARL member libraries during 2023. Data are reported for 11,118 professional staff from 120 university ARL libraries in Canada and the United States and for 2,044…

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Embracing the Metaverse: A Survey of VR and AR practices at the United States’ Top 100 university libraries

LibrariesNovember 14, 2024

(1 Nov 2024) From the abstract: The purpose of this study is to learn more about virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) practices at the United States’ top one hundred university libraries, as well as how they are engaging with the metaverse. We conducted qualitative and descriptive analysis on the websites of the…

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The State of U.S. academic libraries: Findings from the ACRL 2023 annual survey

LibrariesOctober 14, 2024

(3 Oct 2024) ACRL announces the publication of the report The State of U.S. Academic Libraries: Findings from the ACRL 2023 Annual Survey. Academic libraries provide essential services that support research and student success in higher education. To help track the nature and quantity of those services, ACRL fields an annual Academic Library Trends and Statistics…

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Transforming University Libraries Leadership & Innovation Programme is open for registration

LibrariesOctober 14, 2024

(2 Oct 2024) This innovative programme aims to bridge the gap between library professionals in ASEAN and beyond. Offered by NUS Libraries, the Transforming University Libraries Leadership & Innovation Programme (TULLIP) enables early career librarians and other learners to network with the wider academic community, equipping them with the necessary skills and competencies to achieve…

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The new University-Based Publishing Futures community is launched

LibrariesOctober 14, 2024

(30 Sep 2024) On Monday, September 30, the University Based Publishing Futures [UBPF] community officially launched with an open virtual meeting attended by 150 colleagues. UBPF is a new, multi-community coalition made up of the professionals who work at university presses, library publishers, and other academy-affiliated programs that support the infrastructure of scholarly publishing. The purpose…

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IFLA Trend Report 2024 launched

LibrariesOctober 7, 2024

(30 Sep 2024) We don’t need to know for sure what the future holds for libraries and the communities they serve in order to be able to play a role in shaping it. The 2024 Trend Report, launched at the Information Futures Summit and made possible by SIGL support, offers a key resource for librarians,…

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How a Math prof’s resignation 100 years ago changed the world of libraries – the story of S. R. Ranganathan

LibrariesOctober 1, 2024

(27 Sep 2024) A hundred years ago, in Madras Presidency, there lived a libarian name S R Ranganathan (SRR), who was bored. So Bored that in Jan 1924, just a week after being appointed the first librarian of the University of Madras, he, quit, telling his boss he couldn’t “bear the solitary imprisonment day after…

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United States: UCSB Library acquires rare Chinese audio recordings

LibrariesSeptember 30, 2024

(4 Sep 2024) Widely considered to be the earliest form of audio recordings, wax cylinders offer rare glimpses into how the world sounded in the distant past. Indeed, a unique collection from China, recently acquired by UC Santa Barbara Library, provides an elusive glance into the history of the Chinese language and some of…

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Primo Research Assistant launches – a first look and some things you should know

AI, LibrariesSeptember 29, 2024

(16 Sep 2024) From Aaron Tay’s Musings about librarianship blog: “Ex Libris surprised us by suddenly releasing Primo Research Assistant to production on September 9, 2024 (when the earlier timeline was 4Q 2024 with some believing it might even be delayed). Despite the fact that there are so many RAG (retrieval augmented generation) academic search systems today…

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