Major Governance Changes at IFLA

After the release of Secretary General Gerald Leitner from his duties in April, followed quickly by resignations of the President-elect, Antonia Arahova, and the Treasurer, Perry Moree, new IFLA elections are scheduled.

Gender neutral journal titles

21 journals to be renamed as Springer Nature and Clarivate work together to enable titles to become gender neutral.

OCLC and Google now connect web searchers directly to library collections

Google now links search results directly to records of print books in hundreds of libraries using WorldCat data

Google announced new fact checking features

Recognizing that information these days comes to us from an enormous number of sources and different directions, Google's new fact checking features helps searchers sort out what information is credible and what isn't.

Elsevier contributes to Open Access Monitor Germany with Scopus data

The integration of Scopus data will support the monitoring and evaluation of Germany's transition towards open access.

Stewarding ex-CASRAI Assets for the Future: A joint statement from CODATA, euroCRIS and NISO

CASRAI (Consortia Advancing Standards in Research Administration Information), founded in 2006 as an international, non-profit membership organisation with the main aim to reduce the administrative burden associated with, the process of collecting information from researchers during the research lifecycle ceased operations in 2020. . The future of its resources are now secured through arrangements with CODATA, euroCRIS and NISO.

Library technology, video preservation and information literacy at virtual Internet Librarian International

While we wait for the opportunity to host an in-person Internet Librarian International conference, we decided to go ahead with another Bite-sized one. On 11 May 2022, we'll have a half day virtual event, featuring librarians from the United States, Germany, and Mexico covering library technology, preserving videos, and information literacy topics.

Bite-sized Internet Librarian International Returns

Bite-sized ILI is back for 2022! Save the date of Wednesday, 11 May 2022, for Internet Librarian International's latest half day of learning and knowledge exchange.

Janeway: A Twenty-First Century Open Access Publishing Platform

Martin Paul Eve takes us behind the scenes to describe the development of Janeway, Birkbeck College's platform for scholarly communication that is used by universities in multiple countries and reveals the origin of the name of the platform.

Library services in the new normal: An Indian perspective

From his perspective as Librarian & Head, Central Library, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Nabi Hasan reflects on how libraries in India responded to the pandemic situation and celebrates the exciting stories of innovative library services formed during these difficult times.

OCLC releases more than 150 million WorldCat Entities as the foundation of a linked data infrastructure

The University of Nottingham Drives 21st-Century Data Literacy with Gale Digital Scholar Lab

Oxford Open journal series expands with the launch of two new Open Access titles

NASIG transforms to open

New community resource: International Comparison of Recommended File Formats

The Open Preservation Foundation published, on 4 April 2022, a new resource that enables users to compare accepted and preferred file formats at a high level across different types of cultural and scientific institutions across the world.

Volunteers Unite to Archive Ukrainian Cultural Heritage

The Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online is looking for volunteers to archive the cultural heritage of Ukraine.