The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound and far-reaching impact on how we live and work all over the world. The year 2020 and the first part of 2021 were characterized by fear, uncertainty, and rapid change as society ...

The ways in which scholarly research outputs have been organized and disseminated have undergone some complete changes in the last decade, notably through the expansion of Open Access and the increased availability of such ...

Based on contemporary estimates, between 50% and 80% of the world’s linguistic diversity will disappear during the 21st century, meaning that out of estimated 6500 languages currently spoken in the world over 3500 will ...

In the context of academic libraries in the United States, efforts to move from the MARC 21 formats to standards based on linked open data are currently underway. From 2018 to 2020, librarians at the Yale University Library ...

Library cataloging and metadata have been evolving since mid-1990s with the emergence and development of the World Wide Web and communication technology. The purpose of the presentation is to have a brief review of the ...

Special Collections at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Libraries were established in 2016 with the mission to digitally showcase the many rare and distinctive titles in the NUS Libraries that until now have ...

This is a report on the Bibliography Section of IFLA: its scope, activities, and role in promoting national bibliographies and national bibliographic metadata in this era of mass online information. National bibliographies, ...

Since 2010, Resource Description and Access (RDA) has been used by many libraries around the world for the description of information resources. As of May 2021, two versions of RDA are available for use: the “original” ...

This paper is a Digital Collections and Curation case study involving several very rare items that the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Special Collections has recently acquired. These items are in the ...

Organization of information resources is one of the basic business processes carried out by libraries and archives. Such allows users to effectively and efficiently navigate the system to generate relevant search ...