Elsevier has launched a competition to encourage librarians and information professionals to come up with solutions to the challenges that they and their patrons face in the search and discovery of information
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Library group statement proposes copyright reform
The Library Copyright Alliance has released a statement describing the key features that it believes copyright reform proposals should include in order to give significant improvements for libraries and their users
Industry welcomes recommendations on IP in UK
The European Publishers Council, the British Library and JISC are among the organisations that have welcomed the recommendations made to the UK Government by the Hargreaves Review into intellectual property
Paper about user feedback in digital libraries wins award
The winners of the De Gruyter Saur IFLA Research Paper Award 2011 are Erin Thomas, Grace Costantino, Bianca Crowley and Rebecca Morin with their paper entitled 'Heeding the Call: User Feedback Management and the Digital Library'
Wellcome Trust's digitisation programme picks Tessella
Tessella will provide part of the technology for the Wellcome Trust's large-scale digitisation programme
Award for HighWire founding director
HighWire's founding director, John Sack, has been awarded the 2011 CSE Award for Meritorious Achievement from the Council of Science Editors
Dawson France gets new MD
Dawson France has a new managing director. Ludovic Lautussier takes over from Josee Willoquet who has retired after 20 years
OCLC acquisition expands services in Germany
OCLC has acquired the assets of German library system provider, BOND GmbH & Co. KG
Corwin and AESA announce partnership
Corwin and the Association of Educational Service Agencies (AESA) will work together on a comprehensive joint marketing programme
SkyRiver and Cassidy Cataloguing strike sharing agreement
Cassidy Cataloguing Services has entered into a catalogue sharing agreement with SkyRiver
Swets and Innovative Interfaces strengthen EDI connections
Swets and Innovative Interfaces have established a range of electronic data interchange connections between the SwetWise and Millennium systems