Library news

Stephen Due has been named the 2007 Information Professional of the Year by the SLA Australia/-New Zealand Chapter.

Thomson Scientific is seeking applicants from Europe, the
Middle East, Asia Pacific, and Africa for its annual Roger K. Summit International Scholarship.

Innovative Interfaces has announced two new customers for its Millennium integrated library management system.

In the first quarter of 2007, 18 Asian institutions chose Scopus as the preferred database for their university library.

The Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) has announced a collective agreement to digitise up to 10 million volumes as part of the Google Book Search project.

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 assigned.

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

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

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

Medical researchers and doctors in training regularly use online journals, even if they have to do so from their local internet cafe, according to new research published in BMC Health Services Research.