The USA-based Consortium for Research Libraries (CRL) will expand the scope of its preservation activities and make new primary source digital collections available to its libraries through a partnership with the Law Library Microform Consortium (LLMC)
The British Library is launching an interactive survey to map and preserve sounds from across the UK using smartphones
CILIP chief executive Bob McKee died in Sweden where he was attending the World Library and Information Congress
The National Library of the Netherlands has begun a partnership with Google Book Search to digitise more than 160,000 public domain books
Three academic institutions in Denver will have hybrid RFID solutions
A gift of £1.5 million has been given to the Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford to support library digitisation initiatives and digital imaging facilities
Center for Research Libraries is working with the British Library to provide web access to dissertations and theses through the EThOS database
Austria's national library has struck a 30-million-euro deal with Google to digitise 400,000 copyright-free books, spanning 400 years of European history
Approximately 100,000 volumes from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library, described as the world's largest oceanography library, have been digitised and are being made publically-accessible
The European IMPACT (Improving Access to Text) project has welcomed 11 new partners from Southern and Eastern Europe
