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)
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Six librarians chosen for IFLA/OCLC fellowship programme
21 August 2010
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
21 August 2010
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
20 August 2010
The British Library is launching an interactive survey to map and preserve sounds from across the UK using smartphones
Thieme chooses Ingram platform
19 August 2010
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
19 August 2010
CILIP chief executive Bob McKee died in Sweden where he was attending the World Library and Information Congress
Open-access physics consortium gets award
14 July 2010
CERN/SCOAP3 is awarded the SPARC Europe Award for Outstanding
Achievements in Scholarly Communications
Auraria Library chooses Bibliotheca hybrid RFID system
14 July 2010
Three academic institutions in Denver will have hybrid RFID solutions
Google and KB team up on book digitisation
14 July 2010
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
14 July 2010
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
Elsevier tests new peer-review approach
24 June 2010
Elsevier is piloting a new peer-review programme for Chemical Physics Letters where reviewers can choose which articles they would like to review
NISO launches new standards projects
24 June 2010
The National Information Standards Organization has launched six new standard or recommended practice development projects in the past six months
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