Library news

Kate Arnold has been confirmed as vice president of the Chartered Institute of Library & Information Professionals in 2016, and will become president in 2017

The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals has launched a call for papers ahead of the CILIP Conference 2016

A initiative aimed at giving public library users free access to 10 million academic articles will be continued following its early success

Emerald Group Publishing has signed a four-year agreement to provide Egyptian citizens with access to Emerald content via the Egyptian Knowledge Bank (EKB) project, thereby creating what the two protagonists are describing as the largest digital library in the world

The University of Sheffield has become the first institution in the UK to select OCLC Sustainable Collection Services, the analysis tools and services aimed at helping university libraries make more informed decisions about managing print resources

Two courses at the University of Hong Kong have received CILIP accreditation, recognising that they provide solid preparation for professional practice and a suitable base for anybody entering the library, information and knowledge management profession

The British Library chief librarian Caroline Brazier will join the trustee board of the Chartered Institute of Library & Information Professionals

An agreement between the international development charity INASP and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics will provide access to SIAM journals in 16 African and Asian countries at no charge

Something of a twitterstorm has erupted following a tweet from CILIP (Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) that appears to show support for government policies on libraries