Chongqing Library selects Ex Libris system
Chongqing Library in China has chosen the ALEPH 500 integrated library system from Ex Libris.
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The European Library board elects Lynne Brindley as chair
Lynne Brindley, chief executive of The British Library, has become the new chair of The European Library Management Board.
National Library of New Zealand partners with OCLC
The National Library of New Zealand will add some 8 million records and the holdings of 275 libraries to WorldCat.
Digitisation helps preserve printing history
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.
ALPSP Learned Journals Collection signs Southern European deal
The ALPSP Learned Journals Collection and Swets have signed the first cross-country consortia agreement with the Southern European Library Link (SELL).
SirsiDynix CEO resigns
Patrick Sommers is resigning from his position of chief executive officer of library-management system company SirsiDynix.
Pharmaceutical companies plan increasing e-journals emphasis
A survey of major pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies has revealed that electronic journals play a key role in communicating the research results of such…
Public library signs up for Wiley’s STM resources
The New York Public Library's Science, Industry and Business Library has licensed Wiley's peer-reviewed journals.
Germany’s researchers gain more archive information
Ovid and Elsevier are providing researchers across Germany with access to scientific journal and database archives.
Princeton University joins Google’s library project
Princeton University, USA, has joined the Google Library Project and will digitise approximately one million public-domain books from its collections.
First French partner joins LOCKSS Alliance
The Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (INIST) of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) has become the first French member of…
Partners join Innovative’s Encore development
Innovative Interfaces has signed up four new development partners for its Encore platform.