(22 Sep 2022) Tawan News – The new main building for the Taoyuan City Library, constructed as a green building with the central theme of “the tree of life,” will be inaugurated for a trial operation on Oct. 29. Business Today reported that the library was jointly designed by Taiwan’s T.C.K. Architect Engineer Planner and Japan’s…
(24 Aug 2022) The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) launched KnowYourCopyrights.org, a revamped resource to support library leaders, practitioners, and advocates in proactively asserting library rights in the digital era. Libraries, as well as the research, teaching, and learning activities that they support, enjoy special rights in US law, starting with the constitutional purpose of copyright:…
(28 Aug 2022) Imagine reading by a bay window, looking outwards to pockets of greenery, while being bathed in natural sunlight. That’s one of the experiences you can expect when you visit the Kedah Digital Library (KDL) in Alor Setar. Transformed from an existing two-story Anglo-Indian bungalow known as the Memorial Tunku Abdul Rahman building, the…
(20 Aug 2022) The Parliament Library [of India] which until recently was accessible only to lawmakers, government functionaries, accredited media persons and research scholars, has opened its collection of 1.7 million publications to the common people. As the library — which is the largest in Delhi and second largest in the country behind the National…
(24 Aug 2022) The latest National Diet Library Newsletter has been released, with table of contents as below: Selections from NDL collections Browsing Joruri books with YOSHINAGA Motonobu, NDL Director General (Part Two) Map Collections in the National Diet Library (3) Jutei bankoku zenzu Budget NDL Budget for Fiscal Year 2022 News from…
(12 Aug 2022) This blog post is one of the series celebrating Aotearoa NZ School Library Week from 8 to 12 August 2022, sharing great library services from St Bernard’s College and Waimairi School’s library, with interviews and photos. Read the full story here.
(4 Aug 2022) The aim is to be plastic-free, to see equipment reconditioned and reused, to build public awareness of ecological issues as well as save paper… All around the world libraries are going green. The book industry is going green, and not just in publishing houses or bookstores. For seven consecutive years, the International…
(21 Jul 2022) The Guidelines for Parliamentary Libraries, 3rd Edition, is a joint publication between the IFLA Library and Research Services for Parliaments Section (PARL) and the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU). It will be officially launched on 28 July at Session 144 “International Standards for a Digital World” at the 87th IFLA World Library and Information Congress, in Dublin, Ireland.…
(24 Jul 2022) National Library Board Singapore has won the category of “Best Green Library” of the 7th IFLA Green Library Award with its revamp project of Choa Chu Kang Public Library. The winner of the other category, “Best Green Library Project” is Médiathèque de la Canopée-la fontaine, France. Special recognition goes to Colombia, Cali,…
(14 Jul 2022) The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published the ARL Annual Salary Survey 2020, which analyzes salary data for professional staff working in 123 of the 124 ARL member libraries during 2020. Data are reported for 10,626 professional staff from 115 of the 116 university ARL libraries in Canada and the United States* and for…