ProQuest has partnered with the National Library of Scotland to create the first digitised collection of 19th Century House of Lords Parliamentary Papers, providing online access to previously unseen and valuable historical documents
Student Julian Wood tells of his experience of the part-time distance Masters in Librarianship course at the University of Aberystwyth, in Wales
Delegates visiting the CILIP 2015 conference in July are being encouraged to book this week, to take advantage of an 'earlybird' discount
Facet Publishing has released Library Analytics and Metrics: Using Data to Drive Decisions and Services
International development charity INASP is to sponsor four delegates representing two African library consortia to visit the UKSG conference in Glasgow next week
A new analysis of impact case studies from the 2014 Research Excellence Framework shows that research carried out by UK universities has wide and varied benefits to the economy, society, culture, policy, health, the environment and quality of life
SPARC, an international alliance of academic and research libraries, has welcomed the introduction of the Fair Access to Science and Technology Research (FASTR) Act in the USA, which would ensure that public access to research articles becomes law
OpenAthens, provider of software that helps libraries connect their users to online subscription content, has shared key findings from its recent research into librarians' experience and perceptions of identity and access management
David Weinberger is senior researcher at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and has been instrumental in the development of ideas about the impact of the web. Shortly before his recent keynote presentation at the OCLC EMEA Regional Council Meeting in Florence, he spoke with Sarah Bartlett about the library-sized hole in the Internet and how a library graph might help to fill it
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has announced an investment in library workflow with the acquisition of YBP Library Services (YBP) from Baker &Taylor
