(1 July 2024) Laos’ Ministry of Education and Sports conducted a workshop from June 23 to 29 to improve teaching methods for children with disabilities. This training aligns with national policies to ensure equal access to education, aiming to create inclusive environments and enhance educational outcomes for disabled students. Find out more here.
(4 Mar 2024) In a move to advance open access publishing and increase the visibility of research from partner countries, the EIFL has updated its list of journals available for publication by corresponding authors. Through negotiated agreements with publishers, EIFL enables corresponding authors from 37 partner countries to publish their research in open access journals either for free…
(10 Mar 2023) Since 2004, the Endangered Archives Programme (EAP) has helped to preserve cultural heritage and to make it available globally to as wide an audience as possible. To achieve this, grants are provided to digitise and document archives that are at risk of loss or decay, and which are located in countries where…
(8 Sep 2022) The Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism in Laos and the Asian Cultural Centre of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of South Korea are partnering to develop digital resources and capacity building in the field of culture. The project will run from 2022 to 2025 and is being funded by…
(25 Mar 2021) The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the National University of Laos (NUOL) today signed a memorandum of agreement to expand access to ADB’s research and other publications to a wider audience in the country. The agreement was signed by ADB Country Director for the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) Sonomi Tanaka…
(26 Feb 2021) Three new collections are added into the EAP (Endangered Archives Programme) website in February. Manuscripts of the Lanten community in northern Laos Led by Professor Dr Josephus Platenkamp and Joseba Estevez, the EAP791 project team digitised 768 manuscripts owned by private collectors within the Lanten community in northern Laos. Written in…
(7 Jan 2021) The Lao Recitation YouTube channel of the National Library of Laos recently went online, containing over 100 hours of traditional recitation and interviews with reciters. All recordings will also be available in the Digital Library of Lao Manuscripts, where some are readings of manuscripts and can be listened to while viewing images of the texts.…
(26 October 2020) This blog post is written by guest contributor Prof. Dr. Volker Grabowsky, who has been Professor for the Language and Culture of Thailand at the University of Hamburg since 2009, and advisor to the Buddhist Archive of Photography in Luang Prabang Since 2006. Grabowsky’s blog looks at the photographs taken by Hans…
(6 Aug 2019) The Military Libraries of Vietnam and Laos held a conference in Vientiane on August 5 to review their cooperation over the past years and seek future collaboration orientations. More details can be found here.
(14 March 2019) Libraries rely on copyright exceptions and limitations to allow everyday uses of copyright-protected materials, for example, to provide a researcher with a copy of a journal article, to make an accessible format copy for a blind student, or to make a preservation copy. For this reason, many copyright laws include specific exceptions…