Library news

A research study is investigating the value of libraries value across the developing world

OCLC is working with several members of Research Libraries UK to pilot a service that brings improvements to the way libraries manage electronic resources and to users' access of these collections

The American Psychological Association is seeking nominations for its 2013 Excellence in Librarianship Award

Five Inmagic customers have moved to Soutron

The International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) has launched a set of resources relating to ebooks and libraries

Access Innovations, a specialist in semantic enrichment, has teamed up with the American Institute of Physics and IOP Publishing to create a new astronomy thesaurus

The Vatican Library has made its first digitised manuscripts available online

WALDO (the Westchester Academic Library Directors Organization) has signed an agreement enabling its member libraries to participate in the JSTOR digital library project

The UK has contributed more than 6,500 digitised museum objects to provide a boost for online learning

The British Library is calling on members of the public to help in a digital quest to reveal the hidden context of historic maps