(12 Mar 2025) In this issue, Libraries and Sustainability: United Arab Emirates in 30th CDNLAO 2024 Making Preparations for CONSAL XIX Asia at the forefront of library innovation UniFiji delighted with numbers for Recreational Reading in the Park National Campaign Building Community through Reading in Hong Kong Empowering Communities Through Libraries: A Success Story…
(4 Mar 2025) A public library in Kanazawa resembles a sublime theater and offers more than 1.1 million books. For three days, NHK asked people what books piqued their interest and how they spend their time here. Watch the 30 minutes video here.
(5 Mar 2025) This report summarizes the findings of a survey conducted by SCONUL , the professional association for academic and research libraries in the UK and Ireland, on the future of the systems librarian. This is a strategically important role for libraries which are heavily automated and digitised environments relying on a very wide…
(13 Feb 2025) IFLA’s Trend Report series represents a key tool available to libraries globally in order to help plan for the future. Through this, it aims build the resilience and sustainability of our field during changing times, and so our ability to fulfil our missions. The IFLA Trend Report 2024 was initially released on 30…
(5 Feb 2025) Invitation from Mrs Lee Cheng Ean, Advisor and Head of Global Relations, NUS Libraries: I would like to take the opportunity to share a newly launched programme from NUS Libraries, Transforming University Libraries: Library Leadership & Innovation Programme (TULLIP), from 30 June to 4 July 2025. We conducted a successful…
(28 Jan 2025) Trump has demanded a freeze on all federal grants and for all agencies to “temporarily pause all activities related to obligations or disbursement of all Federal financial assistance.” The memo also calls for each agency to perform a “comprehensive analysis” to ensure its grant and loan programs are consistent with President Donald Trump’s executive…
(8 Jan 2025) Why don’t you solve your problems with “word supplements”? A library here has started a “library pharmacy” event, in which books are lent out in a paper bag resembling a medicine envelope according to the “symptoms” of the user, such as “I want to get a supportive push.” The bags are labeled…
(18 Dec 2024) In recognition of the Library Publishing Directory’s 10 year anniversary, we took this opportunity to look back at the first Directory from 2014 and to highlight some of the trends and developments we identified in the data from 2014 to 2024. In this year’s edition of the Directory, we received responses from 179 publishers in 18…
(30 Dec 2024) While bookstores are increasingly closing in Japan due to the prevalence of online shopping, some have started to work with libraries for survival. The government plans to support such collaborations by starting a survey in fiscal 2025 from April in response to concerns over the current situation in which libraries own multiple…
(30 Dec 2024) At LibraryLearningSpace.com, we are dedicated to sharing what’s happening in the library and academic publishing world by curating news from across the globe. Looking back at 2024, the most viewed and frequently published topics were artificial intelligence (AI), research integrity, and our column of Ruth’s Rankings. AI’s Growing Role in Research …