Like many national libraries around the world, the National Library of Indonesia’s (Perpusnas) Preservation Center is facing the problem of the decay of its collection of early printed newspapers. To date, only 2.5% of this collection has been digitized. The goal is to upload these materials on the library’s online platform Khastara, but online access is limited due to Indonesian copyright laws.
The IFLA’s Sub-Saharan Africa Regional Division Committee explores the contribution that libraries can provide to making a reality of an inclusive internet and broader digital environment. Libraries and librarians have continuously advocated for inclusive and equitable access to knowledge and information resources. Around the world, the digital divide is a common reality – particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa where data from the World Bank indicate that Internet penetration for individuals is hovering around 30% of the population. Despite the accelerated digitalisation of societies and economies during the Covid-19 pandemic, Sub-Saharan Africa is still the region with the widest coverage gap.
The complete collection of the magazine Amauta: doctrina, arte, literatura, polémica (1926-1930) archived by the National Library of Peru (BNP), has been declared Cultural Heritage of the Nation, through the Ministry of Culture. This collection, made up of 32 volumes, presents unique features such as exlibris and stamps of Peruvian intellectuals.
The National Library Board of Singapore has just released 10 datasets comprising the metadata of their digitized collections. The digital library comprises over 42,000 digitized books, magazines, newspapers, web archives, images, sound and video recordings. A data API is available to query and retrieve descriptive data including ISSNs.
The IFLA ISBD Review Group has just published the recording and slides of its webinar titled “From ISBD to ISBDM: a bibliographic standard in transformation”, held on 26 January 2023.
IFLA has a variety of councils, committees, sections, and special interest groups. Some work at the strategic level while others focus on individual areas of the library and information services profession. To become a candidate, a volunteer should receive the required number of nominations for that position, and complete the nominee form for that position. The deadline for these submitted items is 24 February 2023, 17:00 CET.
Increasing the amount of high-quality data available through the Europeana website is a continuing priority as the Europeana Initiative starts to deploy the common European data space for cultural heritage. Explore how aggregators are using the Metis Sandbox to deliver high-quality data.
This news post is the second in a series with a focus on the Metis Sandbox.
Based on the relevant provisions of the Public Library Law of the People’s Republic of China, this article introduces the roles and functions of the National Library of China (NLC) in 8 areas, including compilation of national bibliography and union catalogue. Furthermore, this article underlines the related work carried out by the NLC according to these functions.
Melanie Schlosser, library publishing librarian, explains for her perspective how the Library Publishing Coalition (LPC) has evolved in each of their strategic areas, where they have made significant progress, and where she sees untapped potential.
You can also read and download the LPC annual report 2021-2022.
Currently the API delivers public data from the Royal Danish Library’s newspaper collection. Data from the Danish newspaper has to be older than 140 years to qualify af « public data ». The API is presented in the Swagger UI and can return data in JSON, JSONL and CSV. Requests to the API are based on search queries in the Mediestream-platform. Go to the Newspaper API
