(18 Dec 2020) Amorn Petsom, Director, Office of Academic Resources of Chulalongkorn University Library introduces the newly opened Chula UltimateX Library in this video here.
(27 Nov 2020) Thailand’s first unmanned library, Chula UltimateX Library, is now open at Chulalongkorn University. Located on the 2nd and M2 floors of the Chaloem Rajakumari 60 Building (Chamchuri 10), the library is equipped with a remote facility management system and automatic machines that allow users to access library services remotely via smart phones…
(24 Aug 2020) The International Interior Design Association (IIDA) and the American Library Association (ALA) are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2020 Library Interior Design Awards. This biennial competition honors excellence in library interior design and promotes examples of extraordinary design reflected through innovative concepts. “When libraries are designed in novel and…
(19 Mar 2020) The IFLA Green Library Award was established in 2016 by ENSULIB (SIG) and generously sponsored by De Gruyter publishing. The award is 500 Euros for the first place winner. To ENSULIB’s great delight, more than 50 submissions were received from around the world, from Asia, Africa, Europe and America for Green Library Award 2020. The award…
(5 Apr 2019) Literary magazines around the world have long helped readers to discover exciting new writers and serve as channels to read new works by established authors. Now Thailand is getting on board with its own – The Bangkok Literary Review (BKKLIT). Read the full story here.
(21 Mar 2019) The Thailand Convention and Exhibition Bureau’s Mice intelligence and innovation department (TCEB M2I) launched a new online resource centre to provide information and insights for organisers of conventions and exhibition in the country. Bangkok Post has more details here.
(28 January 2019) On 28 January 2019, the Kingdom of Thailand deposited its instrument of accession at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to join the Marrakesh Treaty for persons with print disabilities. Since amendments bringing the Thai Copyright Act into line with the treaty were adopted on 11 November 2018 (Copyright Act (No. 4) B.E. 2561…
(13 July 2018) After UNESCO announced the registration of the National Glass Plate Negatives as UNESCO’s Memory of the World on the 30th of October 2017, the National Archives of Thailand, Sirivadhanabhakdi Foundation together with Thai Beverage PCL took the opportunity to organize the Celebrating the National Glass Plate Negatives Registered as UNESCO Memory of the World exhibition at the National Gallery on Chao Fa Road. The show…
(28 June 2018) BDRC, with the generous support of the Khyentse Foundation, has been working with the Fragile Palm Leaves Foundation, Thailand, since 2016 to preserve their massive collection of palm leaf Buddhist manuscripts. These manuscripts are particularly important as primary sources for the scholarly study of Burmese and Theravāda Buddhism, Pali philology, history, and…
(17 June 2018) On April 27, 2018, Dr. Hwa-Wei Lee was awarded a Medal of Appreciation from Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand during the official opening ceremony of the modernized library of Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok, Thailand. Dr. Lee was the founding library director of AIT under the sponsorship…