(4 Oct 2025) The National Reading Index (NRI) is set to become a key driver of Malaysia’s Reading Nation 2030 strategy by offering a scientific and comprehensive measure of the country’s reading culture. National unity minister Aaron Ago Dagang said reading surveys conducted since 2005 showed encouraging progress but did not fully capture Malaysians’ actual…
With over 56,000 reading programmes held in 2024 alone, the Government renews its commitment to becoming a reading nation by 2030 (5 Oct 2025) FAR from becoming relics of the past, public libraries are being transformed into dynamic, digital-age learning hubs — part of a nationwide mission to build a reading nation by 2030. This…
(5 Jun 2025) The National Library of Malaysia’s (NLM) u-Library service enables users to borrow books from 12 consortium libraries across Malaysia. The initiative is significant as it provides Malaysians access to reading materials, allowing visitors to access search collection catalogs from 155 libraries. The system was developed by the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia…
(4 Jun 2025) Springer Nature and the Higher Education Electronic Resources Consortium (KONSEPt), the Malaysian consortium for higher education and research institutions, have announced the first national transformative agreement (TA) in Malaysia and among Southeast Asia countries. The parties say this agreement demonstrates the increasing momentum across economies of all sizes for open access (OA) publishing,…
(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…
(10 Sep 2024) The National Library of Malaysia is embracing technologies including artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics in its modernisation plan to stay relevant and up to date, said deputy director-general Edy Irwan Zulkafli. Edy Irwan said the National Library has already incorporated several elements into its strategic plan for 2024 to 2028, as…
(5 Sep 2024) Japanese university degrees will be taught abroad for the first time with the inauguration this week of the new Malaysia campus of Japan’s University of Tsukuba within the University of Malaya (UM) site in Kuala Lumpur. The Malaysia campus, known as the School of Transdisciplinary Science and Design at the University of…
(14 May 2024) The IFLA Information Literacy (ILS) Section Newsletter is published twice a year. Articles in the Summer 2024 issue include: Unlocking Minds: Digital Libraries for Sustainable Literacy (Banaras Hindu University, India) Transforming the AMDI Library, Universiti Sains Malaysia: Embracing Innovation for Enhanced Learning (Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia) Library Instruction and Blended Learning at RMIT University Vietnam…
(8 May 2024) Asia-Pacific Member States newly inscribed 20 items during the 2024 cycle of the Memory of the World Regional Register at the 10th General Meeting of the Memory of the World Committee for Asia and the Pacific (MOWCAP), which was convened from 7 to 8 May, in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Genealogical records were…
(28 Feb 2024) In this issue of IFLA Asia and Oceania Regional Division Newsletter, Malaysian Libraries: Transforming Communities Through Citizen Science Building a Digital Network of Chinese Ancient Books” Chinese Ancient Books Resources Database Construction and Services Innovation for Enhanced Smart Library Services Implementation and Response to SDGs by a Public Library: Innovative AR Picture…