According to the United Nations report The World’s Cities in 2018, 55% of the world’s population lives in urban areas, a proportion that is expected to increase to 68% by 2050. In the 2019 World ...

Two trends we've been closely tracking in this column are the emergence of smart cities and the rise of the knowledge librarian. This month we'll take a look at how those two concepts can be combined ...

On her way home from work, Lim Kyung-nan, a mother of two living in Anyang, occasionally borrows books from a smart library, an unmanned “book-rental” machine, usually installed in subway stations. "I ...

Smart library systems represent a transformative convergence of traditional librarianship with cutting-edge information technologies. By embedding sensors, wireless networks and mobile interfaces ...

NEW DELHI: For Kago Pulo, Ansh Jaiswal and their friends, reading has never been more fun, as children and young adults throng a new smart library in Arunachal Pradesh’s Miao, which boasts of a ...

Debashis Sen shows minister Sujit Bose how to read a digital book on Kindle as artist and BH Block resident Shuvaprasanna too checks out one on the inaugural day of the New Town Library. Picture by ...

Ho Chi Minh City’s first smart library, spanning a total area of 1,000 square metres, recently opened to students at Tran Dai Nghia high school in the southern city for the 2019- 2020 academic year.