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Information Today June 27, 2011 Barbara Quint |
The British Library Joins Google Books Google Books continues its march through the national libraries of Europe with the announcement of a deal with the British Library.  |
Information Today May 27, 2010 |
New York Public Library Partners With HathiTrust NYPL is the 27th library to join the partnership, which was formed in 2008.  |
Information Today November 4, 2010 |
University of Pittsburgh Library System Joins HathiTrust This library is the newest member of HathiTrust, a partnership of major academic and research libraries collaborating in a digital library initiative to preserve and provide access to the published record in digital form.  |
InternetNews November 7, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Microsoft to Scan Brit Books Scanning the collection of the prestigious British Library is a big job - and Microsoft wants to do it.  |
Information Today January 13, 2015 |
OCLC and the British Library Team Up for Document Delivery OCLC's WorldShare Interlibrary Loan is now fully integrated with the British Library Document Supply Service to give libraries a new option for document delivery.  |
Information Today July 23, 2015 |
Innovative Publishes Report on Libraries and the Web Innovative released a survey report of 4,000-plus academic library users in the U.K.  |
D-Lib August 2007 Bonita Wilson |
Book Digitization Options for Libraries Online bookseller Amazon plans to digitize thousands of books through agreements with university and public libraries. Amazon plans to sell hard copies of the digitized books on a print-on-demand basis.  |
Information Today May 24, 2010 |
World's Largest Oceanography Library Goes Digital Approximately 100,000 volumes from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library, the world's largest oceanography library, have been digitized and are being made publicly accessible as part of a partnership between Google, the University of California and the UC San Diego Libraries.  |
Information Today August 13, 2015 |
Innovative's SkyRiver Gains British Library Metadata SkyRiver, a cataloging utility product from Innovative, is making more than 3.5 million records from the British Library's British National Bibliography available to library customers.  |
Information Today May 12, 2015 |
Open Library of Humanities Gains Participants Three universities joined the Open Library of Humanities' Library Partnership Subsidy system: Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Exeter, and the University of Sussex.  |
Information Today January 26, 2012 |
Gale Outlines First Archives for Nineteenth Century Collections Online Gale announced the source libraries, collections, and plans for the first four modules of Nineteenth Century Collections Online, its global digitization and publishing program that brings together rare 19th-century primary source content.  |
Information Today March 17, 2015 |
DPLA Moves Forward With Public Library Partnership Project The Minnesota Digital Library received a grant -- as one of the Digital Public Library of America's four service hubs to get an award -- to work on the Public Library Partnership Project  |
Information Today April 16, 2015 |
3M Cloud Library Expands Into the U.K. and Australia To support its entry into the new markets, 3M will supply dedicated sales and support resources across the U.K. and Australia.  |
Information Today June 23, 2003 Marydee Ojala |
Changes in Document Delivery at Infotrieve and the British Library Two major document delivery sources announced changes to their delivery systems during the Special Libraries Association annual conference -- Infotrieve and the British Library. Not surprisingly, given the tight-knit world of document delivery, there are similarities in the two.  |
Information Today September 19, 2011 Barbara Quint |
The British Library to Change Licensing for Noncommercial, Non-U.K. Document Delivery The new service stems from a new framework license agreement supported by the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers and the Publishers Association.  |
Information Today September 15, 2015 |
Innovative Lays Out Strategic Goals Innovative released a set of strategic goals for the following areas: library success, employee success, product leadership, and library partnership.  |
Information Today February 25, 2010 Barbara Quint |
19th-Century Books From The British Library on Kindle for Free Last year, Microsoft completed its digitization obligations to The British Library and handed over 25 million pages in 65,000 19th-century books.  |
D-Lib November 2000 Lynne Brindley |
Taking the British Library Forward in the Twenty-first Century It is at this very time of success that the British Library needs to turn to, and accelerate its engagement with, the critical and transformational issues associated with the digital world and the new demands being made by our wide range of users and stakeholders...  |
Information Today June 28, 2012 Katherine Allen |
New European Library Portal Launched The European Library is a new discovery service that provides access to the collections of the national libraries of 46 European countries, plus a growing number of research libraries.  |
Information Today March 13, 2006 Barbara Quint |
Google Scholar Adds Pay-Per-View Delivery from The British Library Google Scholar continues to enhance its ability to not only find scholarly content but also to fetch it.  |
Information Today August 8, 2011 |
ProQuest Acquires U.K.'s Expert Information ProQuest has acquired U.K.-based Expert Information, publishers of Index to Theses and Theses.com, premier sources of hundreds of thousands of citations and abstracts for British and Irish dissertations and master's theses.  |
Information Today August 5, 2014 |
Wellcome Library and Jisc Will Digitize Historic Medical Books The Wellcome Library, part of the Wellcome Trust, and Jisc partnered with nine institutions, including six universities, for a 2-year digitization project encompassing 19th-century medical books and pamphlets.  |
Information Today August 26, 2010 |
The British Library to Offer Free Access to Bibliographic Records The U.K. national library has around 14 million catalogue records comprising a wealth of bibliographic data. The initiative will help expose this vast dataset to users worldwide.  |
Information Today August 29, 2005 Barbara Quint |
CORRECTIONS: Google Print Not All I Said It Was Google does not supply publishers with e-books as part of the Google Print program, contrary to earlier reporting. Other errors in the Google Print reporting were also discovered.  |
Information Today October 2, 2006 Robin Peek |
The British Library Releases Intellectual Property Manifesto The British Library released a document called "Intellectual Property: A Balance - The British Library Manifesto," which tackles increasingly unforgiving intellectual property laws.  |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2000 |
Editorial Last month I attended two digital library meetings, the all-projects meeting of the National Science Foundation's (NSF's) Digital Libraries Initiative and a conference of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) -- in Europe, surprisingly enough....  |
D-Lib June 2008 |
A New Website Devoted to Envisioning the Future of Libraries In an information world in which Google apparently offers us everything, what place is there for the traditional, and even the digital, library?  |
Information Today November 8, 2010 Barbie E. Keiser |
Some Progress But Not Enough: GAO Issues Update on the EPA Library Network When reading the GAO report released on Nov. 1, it's important to distinguish between indictments of the Agency and the work it was supposed to do from the progress that the library network has made.  |
Searcher April 2007 Grogg & Ashmore |
Google Book Search Libraries and Their Digital Copies Few things in the past decade have brought libraries and subsequent controversy into the mainstream media as much as the google book search library project.  |
Information Today May 22, 2008 Barbara Quint |
OCLC Tightens Links to Google Book Search This week, OCLC signed an agreement confirming and increasing the links between OCLC's WorldCat.org free web service and Google Book Search.  |
D-Lib May/Jun 2010 Xihui Zhen |
Overview of Digital Library Development in China The greatest challenges for Chinese national digital library projects are digital resource construction and a design of services provision.  |
Information Today May 21, 2015 |
The British Library Plans to Digitize Historic Sounds Collection The Heritage Lottery Fund endorsed the British Library with earmarked funding to help the library digitize its archive of 500,000 sound recordings and other collections from the U.K. and provide them online.  |
Information Today October 9, 2006 Susanne Bjorner |
Google Library Project Expands to Spain The Universidad Complutense Madrid has become the first library in continental Europe and in a non-English speaking country to join the 2-year-old Google Book Search program.  |
Information Today December 27, 2004 Barbara Quint |
Google's Library Project: Questions, Questions, Questions Librarians, academicians, journalists, information industry pundits, and real people continue to ring in with comments, concerns, quarrels, and commendations for Google's new library program. Here are some answers, too.  |
Information Today June 25, 2012 |
Penguin Group Launches Library Lending Pilot Program Penguin Group, The New York Public Library, and 3M Library Systems announced a pilot project that will make Penguin eBooks available to patrons of both The New York Public Library and the Brooklyn Public Library.  |
Information Today June 27, 2011 Barbie E. Keiser |
EPA Releases Its National Library Network Strategic Plan FY2012-2014 This is a 3-year strategic plan which addresses four key areas -- EPA library network governance, services, collections (electronic and physical), and communications outreach and training.  |
Information Today August 20, 2013 |
EBSCO Acquires the British Education Index EBSCO Information Services acquired the article records of the British Education Index, a database featuring more than 180,000 education journal records from the U.K.  |
Information Today August 15, 2005 Barbara Quint |
Google slows library project to accommodate publishers Publishers complain about copyright issues with Google's Print for Libraries program.  |
Searcher January 2008 Ashmore & Grogg |
The Race to the Shelf Continues Internet giants are in the middle of a modern-day space race: Who can scan the most and the best books in alliance with the biggest and brightest libraries in the U.S.  |
Information Today July 29, 2014 |
ALA Survey Reveals Statistics on Technology in Libraries The survey found that almost 100% of U.S. public libraries provide workforce development training programs, online resources for finding jobs, and other technology skills training.  |
Information Today July 7, 2015 |
Jisc Sets Up ORCID Consortium for U.K. Universities A national consortium arrangement negotiated by Jisc Collections now allows ORCID to be available to higher education institutions in the U.K. at reduced membership costs and with enhanced technical support.  |
InternetNews November 22, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Google Gift to Help Digitize World The search giant donates $3 million to the Library of Congress to jumpstart the World Digital Library. Google would not be an exclusive vendor for that scanning project, and the resulting database would be open to indexing by other search engines.  |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2015 Schopfel et al. |
A French-German Survey of Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Access and Restrictions As a French-German research team we conducted a survey with a sample of academic libraries and graduate schools in France and Germany to determine the current situation and trends in the publishing of electronic PhD theses and dissertations under Open Access  |
Information Today December 20, 2012 |
The Open University Launches Futurelearn to Offer Free Online Courses Students from the U.K. and around the world will have free access to some of the country's top universities thanks to Futurelearn Ltd, an entirely new company being launched by The Open University.  |
Information Today June 5, 2008 Barbara Quint |
`It Ain't Over Till It's Over': Impact of the Microsoft Shutdown Although the announcement of Microsoft's decision to shut down its Live Search Books and Live Search Academic projects seemed to indicate that the program would cease digitizing immediately, conversations with participating libraries indicated otherwise.  |
Information Today February 7, 2008 |
Columbia University Collaborates With Microsoft on Digitization Project Columbia University and Microsoft are collaborating on an initiative to digitize a large number of books from Columbia University Libraries and to make them available to internet users.  |
D-Lib April 2006 Arthur Sale |
The Impact of Mandatory Policies on ETD Acquisition This paper analyzes the data now available in Australia's coordinated Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) gateway to show the impact of high-level institutional policy decisions on population of the individual repositories.  |
Information Today December 11, 2014 |
LIBLICENSE Model License Agreement Gets a Makeover This updated license incorporates library best practices as well as advice from legal and publishing professionals.  |
D-Lib October 2009 R.S.R. Varalakshmi |
Curriculum for Digital Libraries: An Analytical Study of Indian LIS Curricula To make digital information management a reality, Library and Information Science education programs in India now include digital library courses in their syllabi.  |
Information Today November 29, 2010 |
The Biodiversity Heritage Library Adds Records to WorldCat The Biodiversity Heritage Library is a consortium of major natural history museum libraries, botanical libraries, and research institutions organized to digitize, serve, and preserve the legacy literature of biodiversity.  |