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New Data From OverDrive: Libraries Break Digital Lending Records in 2025 with Over 820 Million Checkouts and Over 1 Billion Minutes Streamed
From OverDrive: In 2025, libraries around the world continued to prove their essential role in connecting communities with stories, information, and entertainment, breaking new digital lending records in the process. As the need for flexible, on-demand access to books and media continued to grow, libraries expanded their digital collections to meet readers where they are, […]
National Library of Korea Opens 30 Million National Bibliography Records to the Public
Note: Blurbs below were translated into English with the use of Google Translate. From The Asia Business Daily (via Google Translate): The National Library of Korea announced on the 12th that it will develop an OpenAPI service based on the National Bibliographic Linked Open Data (LOD) through the ‘2025 National Key Data Open Support Project’ […]
Clarivate Releases Pulse of the Library 2025 Report
From Clarivate: Clarivate today released the Pulse of the Library 2025 report. The report examines how libraries globally are adapting to fast-moving opportunities and challenges such as AI adoption, open science and geopolitical pressures. The findings reveal a steady rise in artificial intelligence (AI) adoption, with 67% of libraries exploring or implementing AI tools, an […]
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National Library Chief Says Libraries are ‘Knowledge Compasses’ in the AI Era (Interview with Kim Hee-sop, Director of the National Library of Korea)
From the Interview (via K-VIBE): As artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly permeates daily life, the role of libraries as centers of knowledge is being redefined. Kim Hee-sop, director of the National Library of Korea, says libraries are more important than ever as “ethical guides and curators of information.” During a recent interview with Yonhap News Agency, […]
National Library of Medicine (NLM) Announces the Relaunch of the NLM Dataset Catalog
From the NLM Technical Bulletin: The National Library of Medicine (NLM) announces the relaunch of the NLM Dataset Catalog, a centralized, searchable platform designed to connect researchers with a vast array of biomedical datasets from multiple repositories, thus accelerating scientific research. Powered by NLM’s DATaset Metadata Model (DATMM), researchers can now effortlessly explore over 2 million […]
Journal Article: “Prompt Engineering For Bibliographic Web-Scraping”
The article linked below was recently published by Scientometrics. Title Prompt Engineering For Bibliographic Web-Scraping Authors Manuel Blázquez-Ochando Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain Juan José Prieto-Gutiérrez Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain María Antonia Ovalle-Perandones Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain Source Scientometrics (2025) DOI: 10.1007/s11192-025-05372-5 Abstract Bibliographic catalogues store millions of data. The […]
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New Digital Archive: National Library of Ireland Live Aid Archive Goes Digital, Over 2000 Photos Now Online
From an NLI Announcement: To mark the anniversary of one of the 1980s’ most memorable events, the National Library of Ireland (NLI) has digitised 2,000 photos from the Live Aid concert and made them available to view online. The Band Aid Trust kindly donated its full archive to the National Library of Ireland (NLI) in […]
Bloomberg Publishes Interview with Rebecca Lawrence, CEO, British Library
From the Interview (via Bloomberg): Introduction Are you reading books — physical books — as much as you used to? Few of us are, and it made me wonder about the path ahead for national libraries. These great institutions date back to the ancient world — the first repositories of written material are in present-day […]
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Journal Article: “Web Archives Metadata Generation with GPT-4o: Challenges and Insights”
The article linked below was recently published by Information Technology and Libraries (ITAL). Title Web Archives Metadata Generation with GPT-4o: Challenges and Insights Authors Ashwin Nair National Library Board Singapore Zhen Rong Goh Tianrui Liuh Abigail Yongping Huang National Library Board Singapore Source Information Technology and Libraries, 44(2).; 2025 DOI: 10.5860/ital.v44i2.17305 Abstract Current metadata creation for […]
Report: “Singapore’s National Library Board Brings Books to Life with AR Spectacles”
From LBBOnline: In partnership with Snap and LePub Singapore, NLB launches the world’s first Augmented Reading experience blending storytelling with immersive audio-visual effects through next-gen AR glasses Ever imagined your favourite book characters literally leaping off the pages while you read? Singapore’s National Library Board (NLB), in partnership with technology provider Snap and agency LePub Singapore, […]
