Library news

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

Researchers in 60 Italian universities get access to Elsevier's abstract and citation database in new deal

Journal of Clinical Oncology legacy content is now available to universities, libraries and research institutions in Germany