Library news

The chief executive of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Bruno Racine, has been elected to chair the board of the Europeana Foundation

WorldCat Local, OCLC's discovery service, will serve as a single point of access and delivery of electronic, print and digital resources to the National Library of South Africa and 15 academic institutions

The Digital Public Library of America will design its technical structure to promote interoperability with Europeana

Content services provider Planman Technologies has established a new Digital Library Services division

The National Library Board Singapore has selected Coutts to provide content and materials to its network of 24 Public Libraries and the National Library Singapore

UNESCO has recognised The British Library's Historic Ethnographic Recordings as a collection of global significance and outstanding universal value

Thomson Reuters has announced a three-year national agreement with the Republic of Kazakhstan's National Center for Scientific and Technical Information

The Conference of European National Librarians (CENL), which represents Europe's 46 national libraries, has voted overwhelmingly to support the open licensing of its libraries' data

A digital library project for Haiti is being supported by 23 international publishing partners

Innovative Interfaces has announced that 75 library organisations are now partners in or early implementers of the Sierra Services Platform