(3 Jan 2025) Restoration work on the nearly 1,000-year-old southern library of the Angkor Wat in Cambodia’s Angkor Archaeological Park has been completed successfully, the APSARA National Authority said in a news release on Friday. Angkor Wat is a major temple in the UNESCO-listed Angkor Archaeological Park in the country’s northwest Siem Reap province. …
(10 Sep 2024) The blog post details a study trip organized by the Southeast Asian Library Group to libraries and archives in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Jana Igunma, Henry Ginsburg Curator for Thai, Lao and Cambodian at British Library explored various institutions, including the National Library of Cambodia and the Royal University of Fine Arts, focusing…
(3 May 2024) The governments of Cambodia and China, through the legislative bodies of both sides, have agreed to boost cooperation in establishing the Digital Law Library of the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly to expand all-round cooperation in line with the strategic partnership and building a common destiny community. More details can be found here.
(21 Mar 2024) The Documentation Centre of Cambodia (DC-Cam) plans to build a Queen Mother Library and reading room near the Laos border in Stung Treng province to develop education and preserve important Cambodian documents. The province’s Borey O’Svay Senchey district Governor Ly Mina said that DC-Cam is a center that collects important historical…
(8 Feb 2024) In the new anti-drug library at Boeung Trabek High School in Phnom Penh, computer programmes share a wealth of educational materials and videos about the harmful effects of illegal drugs. Numerous students engage in learning about narcotics through the facility’s exhaustive collection of research papers and textbooks, all of which are now…
(3 Jul 2023) The Preah Sihamoni Raja Buddhist University initiates a groundbreaking campaign titled “Reading campaign 9,000 in Peace”, aiming to enrich the collection of the Techo Santepheap Library. The campaign advocates for individuals to donate one book each, as a commitment towards creating a robust and thriving nation. This initiative aims to inspire an…
(21 Mar 2023) In this issue of IFLA Asia and Oceania Regional Quarterly News: NLB’s Historical Asian Children’s Literature Collection Recognised By UNESCO As Documentary Heritage Of Influence Director of Capital Library of China: an introduction IFLA Asia-Oceania Regional Division Committee in-person business meeting in Bangkok Pacific Virtual Museum Project: digitalpasifik.org IFLA-ILA South Asian…
(28 Jan 2023) News from Cambodia: Justice ministry secretary of state Chin Malin signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Building Bridges USA (BBUSA) Law Office on “Enriching legal knowledge and the use of an electronic law library”, in a ceremony held at the Royal Academy for Judicial Professions on January 27. The…
(2 Jan 2023) It was a night during the reign of King Ang Duong, who ruled Cambodia from 1840 to 1860. In a Kodi or monk’s house in Wat Svay Chrum, a Buddhist monastery in Prey Veng, a young man, who wished to become a district judge, was studying a Sastra or text on the kingdom’s…
By Gina de Alwis Jayasuriya* (11 Jan 2023) In January 2019, I initiated a study on Continuing Professional Development (CPD)opportunities available to Library & Information Science (LIS) professionals in selected Asian countries. The focus was on countries that had conducted limited research on the LIS sector, and specifically, on CPD for LIS professionals. Country…