Helen Cheung - Libraries Research Group at Charles Sturt University

Library Fair (Japan) & “Connect the World via libraries” project

The Library Fair (図書館総合展) is Japan’s biggest exhibition on the theme of libraries, having started in 1999. Before Covid it was held annually in a convention center in Yokohama each November. Due to Covid it has changed to a hybrid style event, with online and small meetings in local venues.

In November 2022, four special online sessions will be conducted, both in English and Japanese, as part of an international project titled “Connect the World via libraries”. This project has been designed by HKSKH Ming Hua Theological College (聖公會明華神學院) with Japanese parties (Library Fair Committee, Rapidswide company) and the Charles Sturt University Libraries Research Group.… Continue reading “Library Fair (Japan) & “Connect the World via libraries” project”

Visible importance of libraries and librarians: Worldwide “live” online tours

What the project has already done

The project started in January 2021. Up to now, various topics of online tours and online talks have been conducted by professionals like librarians, faculty, archivists and with students using IT tools and various learning models.

Outcomes of the project:

Change challenges of new age to new worldwide powers: With these online tours and talks and international connections, we have developed a worldwide “outreach digital library” together by combining library resources, e-services, user education and use of various IT tools e.g.

Developing of digital literacy with libraries and digital technologies from an international perspective

COVID-19 has changed a lot of our lives, study and work ways and made us depend more on IT. At the same time, COVID-19 has exposed digital divide problems. User education and development of digital literacy are important missions of worldwide libraries, no matter if they are academic, special, school or public libraries. As librarians/educators, how can we face these changes and develop digital literacy for library users, by library user education and taking advantage of easy to use IT tools such as VR, drones and digital humanities tools.… Continue reading “Developing of digital literacy with libraries and digital technologies from an international perspective”

About the Libraries Research Group

Our research focuses on key issues affecting the sector, examining the ways in which library and information services can be improved, and library collections enhanced, as well the role of libraries and librarianship in contemporary society.

Building on CSU’s position as the leading and largest provider of library education in Australia, we are ideally placed to be the group librarians turn to when they need an evidence base for their decisions, or new solutions to real-world problems.