Library news

International development charity INASP is to pilot an innovative approach to training librarian trainers in Ghana

Internet Librarian International, the innovation and technology conference for library and information professionals, is inviting submissions for presentation ideas

ProQuest is now accepting applications for its 2015 Roger K. Summit Scholarship, which will award US$5,000 to a promising graduate student in library and information sciences

The ninth Knovel Academic Challenge has launched, giving thousands of students at academic institutions worldwide the chance to win prizes

Booksellers and subscription agent Harrassowitz is to join forces with Ex Libris Group with the aim of providing library staff with a streamlined acquisition process

The full text of more than 25,000 titles from the ProQuest resource Early English Books Online (EEBO) are now openly available on the websites of the University of Michigan Library and the Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford

OCLC has acquired Sustainable Collection Services (SCS), a company dedicated to helping libraries manage their print collections

Bibliotheca Group has acquired Aturis Group, a provider of library solutions in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany

John Wiley and Sons has announced a pilot agreement, brokered by Jisc, for articles published on an open access basis