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Book and library systems must be ready for 13-digit ISBNs by early next year, when ISBNs with a prefix of 979 start to be…

The Royal Library of Denmark has chosen Ex Libris' Primo discovery and delivery product as the interface to all local and remote scholarly information…

The University of Manchester has used Talis Keystone to integrate its library services within its campus uPortal.

Scopus is being made available to 44 of Brazil's leading universities and research institutes.

Medical researchers and doctors in training regularly use online journals, even if they have to do so from their local internet cafe, according to…

The Wayne State University Libraries have achieved real-time acquisition of user statistics from within Innovative Interfaces' electronic resource management system.

Chongqing Library in China has chosen the ALEPH 500 integrated library system from Ex Libris.

Lynne Brindley, chief executive of The British Library, has become the new chair of The European Library Management Board.

The National Library of New Zealand will add some 8 million records and the holdings of 275 libraries to WorldCat.

ProQuest CSA and Oxford University Library Services will digitise more than 65,000 items from the Bodleian Library's John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera.

The ALPSP Learned Journals Collection and Swets have signed the first cross-country consortia agreement with the Southern European Library Link (SELL).

Patrick Sommers is resigning from his position of chief executive officer of library-management system company SirsiDynix.