Swedish Royal Library funds best practices guide
Swedish Royal Library awards Co-Action Publishing and Lund University Library with substantial funding to create new best practices guide.
Library news
New virtual directory for NIH
Collexis to develop virtual knowledge directory for NIH.
SMU creates integrated Digital Library
Singapore Management University (SMU) selects Innovative to create an integrated Digital Library for the University's Li Ka Shing Library.
APA goes digital with University of Akron
APA announces digitisation agreement with University of Akron.
Project tackles metadata mess
Nadya Anscombe reports on a pilot project that hopes to unite the different metadata systems used by publishers and libraries
Access agreement for SAGE content
SAGE signs major nationwide licensing agreement for German academic sector.
DFG funds German licence for Nature archive
Universities and institutions in Germany now have access to the complete Nature archive from 1869-2007 following a national licence agreement
Librarian acknowledged for innovation, inspiration and leadership
Thomson Scientific awards the 2008 Quantum2 InfoStar Award to Ohio librarian Brian Gray
Digital library moves to National Center for Atmospheric Research
Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) moves to National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado.
Access to SAGE material in Asia
SAGE announces several new consortia agreements across Asia for 2008.
Columbia University joins GoogleBook Search
Columbia University has become the 27th library to join with Google Book Search to digitise works from its collections.
OCLC plans cataloguing and metadata pilot
OCLC will explore the viability and efficiency of capturing metadata from publishers and vendors upstream and enhancing that metadata in WorldCat.