Drake University and Cowles Library have selected EBSCO Discovery Service to enhance access to scholarly information
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Advocate General turns downs EU patent
The Advocate General of the European Court of Justice has found flaws in the idea of the Community Patent and a European Patents Court
CRL and law libraries partner for preservation and access
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)
Six librarians chosen for IFLA/OCLC fellowship programme
Six librarians from countries with developing economies have been chosen for the Jay Jordan IFLA/OCLC Early Career Development Fellowship Programme for 2011
WLIC delegates learn of impact of Haiti earthquake on libraries
Security cameras in Haiti's national library captured the moment the country was hit by a massive earthquake in January. Delegates at IFLA's recent conference learned of efforts to rebuild Haiti's library infrastructure
British Library maps sounds across UK
The British Library is launching an interactive survey to map and preserve sounds from across the UK using smartphones
Thieme chooses Ingram platform
Thieme has selected Ingram's CoreSource platform to facilitate the archiving and distribution of e-content to partners worldwide
Library community mourns CILIP chief executive
CILIP chief executive Bob McKee died in Sweden where he was attending the World Library and Information Congress
Open-access physics consortium gets award
CERN/SCOAP3 is awarded the SPARC Europe Award for Outstanding
Achievements in Scholarly Communications
Auraria Library chooses Bibliotheca hybrid RFID system
Three academic institutions in Denver will have hybrid RFID solutions
Google and KB team up on book digitisation
The National Library of the Netherlands has begun a partnership with Google Book Search to digitise more than 160,000 public domain books
Southampton department releases public data in open linked data format
The School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton has become the UK's first university department to release all its public data in open linked data format for public reuse