{
  "id": 19647267,
  "title": "Malaysia’s FRIM puts century-old library collection online, opening 77,600 digital files to public",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/12/malaysias-frim-puts-century-old-library-collection-online-opening-77",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-12T12:05:36.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Malay Mail",
    "slug": "malay-mail",
    "url": "https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2026/11/12/malaysias-frim-puts-century-old-library-collection-online-opening-77600-digital-files-to-public/243026"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM) has digitised its century-old library collection, making 77,600 digital files from its archives accessible to the public online through the FRIM Research Depository (FRED) portal. The FRED portal, operational since last year, has seen an average of 2,885 user accesses annually, offering free registration for 160,244 metadata records and 77,600 digital files. These resources include scientific articles, books, theses, journals, forest maps, and newspaper clippings, catering to researchers, policymakers, industry players, students, and the public. The library's digitalisation initiative aims to preserve heritage manuscripts and ensure authoritative, systematically organised scientific references, contributing to FRIM’s recognition as a Unesco World Heritage Site.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}