Library news

JANET, the UK's education and research network, has increased its capacity from 10Gbit/s to 40Gbit/s

OCLC will implement a 'Library 2.0' meta-catalogue of Swiss university libraries and the Swiss National Library.

CILIP has given an honorary fellowship to Saad Eskander, the director-general of the Iraq National Library and Archive.

Libraries in Nova Scotia and the University of New Brunswick will use OCLC's WorldCat Local service

Three-quarters of academic libraries and half of public libraries in the UK intend to increase their collections of e-books over the next year, according to a NetLibrary survey.

A new guidance booklet for vice-chancellors and senior institutional managers should help to ensure that libraries keep pace with researchers' needs.

Europeana is now online and open to the public.

Innovative Interfaces recently installed its Encore discovery services platform at Associated Topeka Libraries Automated System (ATLAS) in the USA.

Chinese, Japanese and Korean texts can all be searched and displayed in their original scripts, thanks to a project by SirsiDynix and Stanford University in the USA.

OCLC's eContent division, NetLibrary is looking for participants in a short survey into usage and perceptions of e-books and e-audiobooks.