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African libraries have more of an opportunity than ever before to bring the continent’s knowledge to the world. They just need to adapt their traditional roles and functions.
Keeping a printed book in a campus library comes with steep costs. How are campus libraries evolving?
Traditionally, libraries provided a quiet space to read. Today’s libraries are taking on new roles and helping young people gain 21st-century skills.
It is no surprise that libraries are coping with a large number of patrons who are homeless or have mental illnesses. Public libraries are, after all, designed to be welcoming spaces for all.
To understand the wide array of information in today’s world, we need a different kind of literacy. Some researchers call that ‘metaliteracy.’
The number of libraries is dropping drastically across almost all states. Will a revised No Child Left Behind law make a difference?
The late Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko and political philosophers Frantz Fanon and Achille Mbembe top the list of writers who get routinely abducted by discerning pirates of the book world.
A new policy by publisher Elsevier is threatening to wind back the gains made by the open access movement.
We’ve lost a lot of libraries and a lot of books since 2010. The UK can’t face any more cuts.
The State Library of Victoria has received the greatest single bequest of rare books in its history, coupled with an endowment for the collection’s preservation. No wonder book scholars are smiling.
Terry Pratchett and Jorge Luis Borges may have been the prophets of the future library.
The Library of Birmingham was one of the UK’s top ten tourist attractions in 2014. But this won’t save it.
Australian’s museums, galleries and other cultural institutions must adopt more of a digital strategy with their collections if they are to remain relevant with audiences. Only about a quarter of the collections…
The Louvain library in Belgium and its priceless collection of medieval manuscripts were destroyed by German soldiers exactly 100 years ago today – and so it is timely to ponder the links between education…
What place do e-readers – and in particular ebooks – hold in the reading behaviour of Australia’s 10 million public library borrowers? There are some 181 million items loaned every year by the nation’s…
Today we eagerly embrace new technology for fear of being left behind. A toddler with an iPad in hand is a welcome sign of a child learning to succeed in a digital world. Remainders of the pre-digital…
Over the past few weeks, a petition called “Save Mitchell Library” has been circulating among writers and scholars. The petition calls for New South Wales State Librarian Alex Byrne to host a public meeting…
On January 4, Tripoli’s historic Al Sa’eh Library, one of Lebanon’s largest, burnt down. Two-thirds of its 80,000 books and manuscripts were lost in a fire that consumed the building. This is no anomaly…
The Sydney Morning Herald recently reported that information technology and biotech entrepreneurs are beginning to displace mining magnates at the top of the nation’s rich lists. Out goes resources tycoon…
Top contributors
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Deputy University Librarian, University of California, Merced
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Slavic Resources Coordinator, and Head, Petro Jacyk Resource Centre, University of Toronto Libraries, University of Toronto
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Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
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Honorary Senior Lecturer, School of Education, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Adjunct Professor, College of Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce, La Trobe University
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Baker Endowed Chair and Professor of Library and Information Science, University of South Carolina
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Associate Professor in Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Visiting Fellow, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Print and Digital Cultures, Cardiff University
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Scholarly Communications Librarian, University of the Witwatersrand
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Director of the Centre for Organisational and Social Informatics, Monash University
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University Librarian and Vice Provost for Digital Scholarship, University of California, Davis
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Postdoctoral Fellow—Indigenous and Colonial Histories, University of Tasmania
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Associate Professor, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer, University of Strathclyde
