Library news

OCLC research report identifies factors that drive public library funding support in the USA.

New report and consultation investigates how academic libraries can adapt to the 21st century learner.

30 academic libraries in Italy are now participating in the Portico archive.

EBSCO's Oliver Pesch will chair NISO for the 2008-2009 term.

UC Berkeley Library will install Innovative's full Millennium integrated library system with the Electronic Resource Management module.

ICTP arranges free access to the SPIE Digital Library to researchers and students in more than 90 countries.

The National Library for Health (NLH) implements an OpenURL link resolver service for NHS library holdings using OCLC’s WorldCat Link Manager.

Medical librarian, Jan Weaver, is named the 2008 Information Professional of the Year by the SLA Australia and New Zealand Chapter.

The Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic has released a beta-version of The Czech Digital Mathematics Library.

Microsoft is stopping its Live Search Books and Live Search Academic projects and winding down its book-digitisation initiatives.

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published statistics about preservation efforts in 2005-06.

OCLC and Google sign agreement to exchange data that will facilitate the discovery of library collections through Google search services.