American Library Association confirms its future will be hybrid as 3rd online ALA event announced for June
This is just one more example of how the industry has turned adversity to advantage, embracing...
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Category: Libraries
Qatar National Library joins Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services
“The treasures contained in our Library, its content, its modernity, its advanced...
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Morocco’s National Library goes digital as country locked down
Morocco is among the many countries closing libraries to help contain the Coronavirus threat, and...
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Visiting public libraries in the USA is twice as popular as going to the movies, despite record-breaking digital library downloads
With an average 10.5 trips to the library in 2019, the latest Gallup poll tells us library visits...
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STEM study hub project launched by Ghana Library Authority with Book Aid International
Science, tech, engineering & maths (STEM) are key components of any 21st century national...
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RH Business Relaunch; VAT on Russian ebooks; Amazon’s Kindle for Kids; Brexit fears; Random House Graphic; Ebooks and Libraries; Nobel Prize Controversy
Industry News Round-Up is a selection of some of the most interesting stories emerging from the...
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A library on a bus – Rwanda Bookmobile Initiative is a great idea, but its argument against digital is flawed and unnecessary
Targetting remote primary schools, and carrying books in Kinyarwanda, French, and English, NGO...
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India’s youngest librarian. Bookboats in Sweden, Norway and, sadly no longer, in Finland
We Start The Day Global today with a look at floating libraries in Scandinavia and a free public...
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The Lebanese National Library will reopen in Beirut in January, forty years after the Lebanese Civil War saw its destruction
When conflict erupted in Beirut in 1975 the Lebanese National Library was an inevitable casualty,...
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Istanbul wants to be a global centre of publishing. Is that at all realistic?
Two hundred publishers will be in Istanbul this week for the 4th annual Arabic Book Fair, regarded...
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Toronto library first in world to exceed 20 million digital downloads
Twenty million. That’s how many ebooks and audiobooks have been downloaded from the Toronto Public...
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Arabic Literature in Translation Seminar in New York follows Sharjah’s New Orleans Library Association presence. The Arab Renaissance gets into second gear
The Sheikh Zayed Book Award (SZBA) will be running a seminar at the New York Public Library...
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