Library News

Google and KB team up on book digitisation

14 July 2010
The National Library of the Netherlands has begun a partnership with Google Book Search to digitise more than 160,000 public domain books

Auraria Library chooses Bibliotheca hybrid RFID system

14 July 2010
Three academic institutions in Denver will have hybrid RFID solutions

Bodleian Libraries get £1.5 million for digitisation

17 June 2010
A gift of £1.5 million has been given to the Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford to support library digitisation initiatives and digital imaging facilities

CRL works with British Library on thesis access

17 June 2010
Center for Research Libraries is working with the British Library to provide web access to dissertations and theses through the EThOS database

Google will scan Austrian books

16 June 2010
Austria's national library has struck a 30-million-euro deal with Google to digitise 400,000 copyright-free books, spanning 400 years of European history