Library news

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.

WorldCat.org users can now view digitised books in the Google Book Search collection, on the WorldCat.org website.

The James G. Gee Library at Texas A&M University-Commerce has chosen the Millennium integrated library system from Innovative Interfaces.

Murdoch University joins Australian resource-sharing consortium BONUS+

The library of UCLA in the USA has received a $750,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to catalogue more than 55,000 rare books.