Library news

The Royal Library of Denmark has chosen Ex Libris' Primo discovery and delivery product as the interface to all local and remote scholarly information resources.

Medical researchers and doctors in training regularly use online journals, even if they have to do so from their local internet cafe, according to new research published in BMC Health Services Research.

The Wayne State University Libraries have achieved real-time acquisition of user statistics from within Innovative Interfaces' electronic resource management system.

Chongqing Library in China has chosen the ALEPH 500 integrated library system from Ex Libris.

Lynne Brindley, chief executive of The British Library, has become the new chair of The European Library Management Board.

ProQuest CSA and Oxford University Library Services will digitise more than 65,000 items from the Bodleian Library's John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera.

The National Library of New Zealand will add some 8 million records and the holdings of 275 libraries to WorldCat.

The ALPSP Learned Journals Collection and Swets have signed the first cross-country consortia agreement with the Southern European Library Link (SELL).

A survey of major pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies has revealed that electronic journals play a key role in communicating the research results of such companies.

Patrick Sommers is resigning from his position of chief executive officer of library-management system company SirsiDynix.