News

Elsevier launches competition to develop library apps

18 May 2011

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

Library group statement proposes copyright reform

18 May 2011

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

Swets picks new chairman

18 May 2011

Jonathan Newcomb is appointed chairman of the Swets Board

Industry welcomes recommendations on IP in UK

18 May 2011

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

17 May 2011

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

12 May 2011

Tessella will provide part of the technology for the Wellcome Trust's large-scale digitisation programme

Award for HighWire founding director

10 May 2011

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

19 April 2011

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

19 April 2011

OCLC has acquired the assets of German library system provider, BOND GmbH & Co. KG

Corwin and AESA announce partnership

19 April 2011

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

19 April 2011

Cassidy Cataloguing Services has entered into a catalogue sharing agreement with SkyRiver

Swets and Innovative Interfaces strengthen EDI connections

19 April 2011

Swets and Innovative Interfaces have established a range of electronic data interchange connections between the SwetWise and Millennium systems

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