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Sumber: BERNAMA

500 rural libraries to drive reading push

 

Sumber: The Sun (23 Apr 2026)

Libraries in 2026

In 2026, libraries are evolving into dynamic community hubs, blending digital innovation (like digital archives and online learning) with vital physical spaces, focusing on fostering belonging, offering diverse programming (cozy reads, hopeful fiction), and providing essential leadership in information literacy, with major global events like IFLA's conference in Busan highlighting professional growth and new identities for information professionals. 

Key Trends & Focus Areas

Digital Transformation: Schools and universities are modernizing libraries into digital learning centers, while libraries ensure digital preservation of rare texts.

Community & Belonging: Libraries offer spaces for connection, reducing isolation and building community through shared experiences like reading.

Information Leadership: Librarians are asserting their vital role as educational leaders, focusing on skills development and guiding users through complex information landscapes.

Hybrid Experiences: While digital resources grow, physical books and in-person programming remain crucial for social engagement, with physical libraries adapting hours and services. 

Source: Internet 

Plan to Promote Libraries

Plan to promote Libraries

The Sun – 11 April 2025

Plan to promote libraries

 

To boost reading appeal, association advocates inclusion of facilities at housing and mall developments

Ghazali said access to libraries is not an issue, as there are 13,000 in the country. – AMIRUL SYAFIQ/ THESUN

PETALING JAYA: When thousands of Malaysians lined up outside BookXcess stores for a recent three-day book giveaway, some observers were left stunned.

Others saw it asconfirmation of what they have always believed: Malaysians do read, but are books here too expensive and inaccessible?

Librarians Association of Malaysia president Dr Ghazali Mohamed Fadzil said the sight of people queueing from 8am for free books was not surprising. Instead, it underscored an ongoing reality.

Libraries - Catalysts For Change

LIBRARIES - CATALYSTS FOR CHANGE

 By Daniela Hislop, CEO at Thedesignconcept Ltd

July 18, 2024

Libraries are awesome! If you think you know libraries think again! Even as society undergoes continuous change, the public library continues to be considered by so many as a much-loved and respected institution – even those who have never used it can still see its acknowledged trust and its wider democratic and civic value. With some investment the potential is indeed awesome!

The public library is still widely and globally recognised as a catalyst for change, facilitating social, economic and cultural development and supporting communities to take advantage of the opportunities afforded them by a modern society.

We know libraries build better, fairer stronger communities. Working more, and more in partnership they make huge differences to health and wellbeing, to early learning, to digital access and skills and to an informed citizenry.

Tomorrow’s libraries need leaders who understand new technologies, the changing and future job market and the future skills citizens will need for that. Undoubtedly, these new leaders must find a united, big, loud voice to sell the vision. Let's transform public perception of our role and relevance and become the thought leaders to support, protect and empower people in a digital age.

We can enable the learning required to create new jobs and a new skilled, entrepreneurial, adaptable workforce. Importantly we need to create the fantastic spaces in which people feel they can just ‘be’; places they own, want, need and can develop.

Rapid pace of change is now our only constant, but we are an untapped goldmine with an opportunity to reinvent our role as the ‘digital powerhouse’ and to develop as real catalysts for equality and societal change. We can find new ways of working that ensure no one is left behind.

With thoughtful investment our network of public libraries is ideally situated to create the conditions for harnessing the benefits of economic growth. To ensure everyone knows it, so WE NEED TO FIND A BIG LOUD VOICE!

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Source: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/libraries-catalysts-change-daniela-hislop-oukwe/?trackingId=PRsdL0wEz4OQJRCIPFyytw%3D%3D

 

Libraries as a Crime Fighter

Libraries as a crime fighter

The Star 15/7/2024 pg. 12

"Libraries and museums should be used as community spaces that can help bring down the crime rate by giving youths space for healthy activities"

#Libraries

Number of Public Libraries in Southeast Asia

Source: OCLC, via mapsofworld.com 

Lose Yourself in Books

Lose yourself in books

By Rajen Devadason

NST 25 March 2024, pg. 23

"Knowledge is power, and libraries are the fortresses where that power is stored"

"The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of the past centuries"

#libraries #Books