A Brainteaser for those intrigued by fictional characters and their imaginary bookcases.
Posted 15 February 2021
The "bird librarian" brings poisoners to justice.
Posted 1 February 2021
Need to take a bite out of your taxonomy efforts? Taxonomy Bootcamp London, a sister conference to Internet Librarian International, is hosting a Bite-sized version on 2 March 2021.
Posted 22 January 2021
IFLA's Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning (CPDWL) Section and New Professionals Special Interest Group (NPSIG) announced the winners of their library meme contest.
Posted 12 December 2020
The London Book Fair Moves to June 2021, with Andy Ventris Announced as New Director, with the aim of bringing the publishing industry together in person for first time since the outbreak of Covid-19.
Posted 16 November 2020
The Portsmouth City Library wants its Harry Potter first edition back, along with the £42,500 recent sales price
Posted 20 October 2020
Instead of an in-person World Library & Information Congress in Rotterdam, IFLA has announced that the August 2021 congress will be entirely virtual.
Posted 22 September 2020
European Union magistrate Maciej Szpunar issued an advisory opinion stating that the digital cultural library run by Preussischer Kulturbesitz (the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) does not violate copyright laws.
Posted 14 September 2020
The extension to the Württemberg State Library in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, received the Architecture 2020 Concrete Award.
Posted 22 August 2020
Kelly LeBlanc, a knowledge management and taxonomy specialist at FireOak Strategies, looked at GDPR compliance now that the legislation has been in place for awhile.
Posted 12 August 2020
LYRASIS, a non-profit organization of libraries, archives, museums, and research institutions, based in the United States, published the 2020 Open Content Survey Report, which focuses on open content activities within the United States (U.S.) surrounding Open Access (OA) Scholarship, Open Data, and Open Educational Resources (OERs).
Posted 7 August 2020
Winners of the 2020 Altmetric Research Award are Dr Fabio Castro Gouveia, a scientometrics and altmetrics specialist at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in Brazil, and Dr Elaine Rabello, a researcher with dual appointments at the Institute of Social Medicine, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Wageningen University, Netherlands.
Posted 28 July 2020
The revised Business Research Competencies is now available.
Posted 3 July 2020
The Boccaccio Project Will Feature New Works by 10 Pairs of Composers and Performers to be Premiered Online During 10 Days in June
Posted 13 June 2020
The Knowledge Academy have identified the most commonly misspelt words in Google searches. They've also found an uptick in people using Alexa or Siri to find the spellings they don't know.
Posted 8 June 2020
The New York Public Library will be celebrating its 125th birthday in 2020.
Posted 13 January 2020
Report highlights the distorting effect of hyper-authored articles on citation and impact analysis.
Posted 10 December 2019
Report covers mapping of trends, actors and initiatives regarding the potential cross-border legal challenges that could be encountered in cyberspace.
Posted 29 November 2019
The International Alliance of Research Library Associations (IARLA) welcomes the move towards the open access environment for journal articles.
Posted 31 October 2019
Eleven outstanding projects celebrated.
Posted 18 October 2019
Demos, in partnership with Jisc, has set out to explore the potential impact of AI, robotics and other emerging technologies on the future of the research sector.
Posted 4 October 2019
New Pearson report gathers opinions of 11,000 learners in 19 countries.
Posted 20 September 2019
How easy is it to conduct digital business globally and what policy changes could improve the current picture?
Posted 8 September 2019
New report explores the issues and concerns that keep journal editors up at night.
Posted 6 September 2019
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has released its Digital Economy Report 2019.
Posted 5 September 2019
3.5 billion people are using social media; half the world population watches online video; emoji usage continues to grow.
Posted 18 July 2019
The long school holidays are around the corner.
Posted 4 July 2019
Expected changes to the demographics of the student body has implications for HE libraries.
Posted 8 June 2019
Goldsmiths College hosted a full day of discussions on what makes OA in the humanities ‘different'.
Posted 26 May 2019
The European University Association has released its 2019 Big Deals Survey Report.
Posted 21 May 2019
White paper suggests ways to improve usage data that will benefit all stakeholders including authors, publishers, funders, vendors, libraries, and readers.
Posted 9 May 2019
Libraries matter for Europe and Europe matters for libraries. IFLA and its partners have developed a library manifesto for Europe. Here are the highlights.
Posted 26 April 2019
In this Association of Research Libraries white paper expert Wikidata users recommend ways for librarians to use the open knowledge base in advancing global discovery of their collections, faculty, and institutions.
Posted 23 April 2019
New Springer nature white paper draws on several reports to recommend practical ways to accelerate data sharing.
Posted 2 April 2019
The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) has released a statement describing the ways in which librarians help advance global scholarship.
Posted 20 March 2019
OCLC identifies the 100 novels most widely held in public libraries around the world.
Posted 7 March 2019
Information Governance needs to be owned at the top and cascaded down effectively.
Posted 19 February 2019
International real estate agent Savills has published its latest Tech Cities index report.
Posted 6 February 2019
Ten innovations that have the potential to provoke real change in pedagogy are explored in new report.
Posted 10 January 2019
New report shows complexity of research information management activities and the need for interoperability.
Posted 11 December 2018
The Altmetric Top 100 typically features research from a variety of disciplines, written by authors from all corners of the globe.
Posted 11 December 2018
Highly Cited Researchers (Clarivate Analytics) is an annual list of influential researchers in the sciences and social sciences from around the world.
Posted 29 November 2018
Digital Experience Insights Survey gives a student-centric view of HE and FE digital environments.
Posted 16 November 2018
Academic publishing plays an integral role in the research and innovation ecosystem, according to new research.
Posted 13 November 2018
Newspapers are an important part of the academic publishing landscape - and their use is growing.
Posted 12 November 2018
Latest Figshare report explores global attitudes towards open data.
Posted 2 November 2018
A new report produced by think tank Demos in partnership with the Reading Agency highlights societal benefits of reading.
Posted 2 November 2018
How we can make the most of collective human intelligence and machine intelligence to solve complex social challenges?
Posted 18 October 2018
The Library of Congress has published its new strategic plan for the years 2019 - 2023.
Posted 3 October 2018