Library news

Cardiff University develops a system to help education institutions assess the popularity and use of their electronic resources

Interlibrary loans in academic libraries have increased by 14 per cent over the past three years and libraries spend an average of $3,500 on related shipping charges, according to a survey by Primary Research Group

The Library Copyright Alliance has released a statement describing the key features that it believes copyright reform proposals should include in order to give significant improvements for libraries and their users

Elsevier has launched a competition to encourage librarians and information professionals to come up with solutions to the challenges that they and their patrons face in the search and discovery of information

The winners of the De Gruyter Saur IFLA Research Paper Award 2011 are Erin Thomas, Grace Costantino, Bianca Crowley and Rebecca Morin with their paper entitled 'Heeding the Call: User Feedback Management and the Digital Library'

Tessella will provide part of the technology for the Wellcome Trust's large-scale digitisation programme

Swets and Innovative Interfaces have established a range of electronic data interchange connections between the SwetWise and Millennium systems

Cassidy Cataloguing Services has entered into a catalogue sharing agreement with SkyRiver

OCLC has acquired the assets of German library system provider, BOND GmbH & Co. KG

King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia is one of the latest universities to launch an open-access repository using Open Repository technology