(9 February 2016) Designinglibraries.org reports that the library will be located in Al Jaddaf, in the heart of Dubai and close to Dubai Culture Village. The seven-storey, one million square foot facility will house more than 4.5 million books, including 1.5 million printed books, two million electronic books and one million audio books. Designinglibraries.com has the…
(1 February 2016) The future of public libraries is the focus of the INELI-Oceania program. The second two-year INELI-Oceania program, being offered from July 2016 to June 2018 for emerging library innovators has six places available for applicants from Australia, New Zealand and Pacific Island nations. The program is designed to develop the participants’ effectiveness…
(22 January 2016) The National Library of the Philippines (NLP) in partnership with the Association of Librarians in Public Sector, Inc. (ALPS, Inc.) and National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) through the National committee on Library and Information Services (NCLIS) cordially invites you to the National Conference of Public Librarians on 7-10 March 2016 with the…
(26 January 2016) The National Library of China has announced its list of events for the upcoming Spring Festival. A New Year couplet contest will be one the interactive games processed via its website. A New Year couplet exhibition will be run from Jan 26 to give an introduction of the Chinese couplet culture. The…
From ‘Roman Wales’ to ‘Ebola’: local library users able to continue searching over 10 million academic articles, free-of-charge (9 December 2016) The Access to Research initiative, which gives users in UK public libraries free access to over 10 million academic articles, has been given the green light by publishers and librarians to continue. The service…
(3 January 2016) A large library bookstore was opened to readers on 3 January 2016 in the Tongling City of east China’s Anhui Province. The Tongling City Library, also a Xinhua bookstore, was jointly established by the local government and the Xinhua Publishing Group, the first of its kind in China to promote transformation of…
(24 December 2015) On the second floor of an old building in Dongdaemun-gu, eastern Seoul, children sit scattered around the floor of a small library, reading. Behind them are walls of bookshelves filled with colorful books. In the next room, others play board games, while in the third room a small group of children intently…
(24 December 2015) Hanwha Engineering and Construction opened its 50th Kkumegreen Library at the Seoul Eden Welfare Center for the Disabled on Wednesday, company officials said. The Kkumegreen Library project is a social welfare program by Hanwha held in collaboration with the Seoul Association of Welfare Institutes for the Disabled. The builder opened the first…
(23 December 2015) At Shromo Kallyan Public Library in Rangpur division in northwest Bangladesh, the librarian helps children learn Bangla language letters using a tablet app. As part of Beyond Access’s cooperation with Save the Children on the USAID-funded READ program in Bangladesh, 20 public libraries throughout the country have begun offering early-grade reading services to…
(9 December 2015, London, BBC) The number of libraries in the UK fell by 2.6% in the last year, from 4,023 to 3,917, according to a new survey. The figures were released by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (Cipfa) following its annual survey of libraries in Great Britain. Wales saw the biggest…
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