"Swets has announced that its newly developed eBooks procurement portal has entered into Beta Testing. The portal integrates a comprehensive eBook catalog and procurement options into existing SwetsWise services, most notably SwetsWise Subscriptions. These features will provide customers with a single ...

Sharing European Memories "Sharing European Memories aimes to create a transnational network of organizations engaged in starting a prosess of raising youngsters' awareness towards the historical memory of older generations which experienced the 20th Century conflicts and wars in Europe. Through the ...

Sir Andrew Motion, former Poet Laureate, has been announced as Chair of the judges for the 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Andrew Motion is Professor of Creative Writing at Royal Holloway College, University of London and co-founder of the online Poetry Archive. He was appointed Poet Laureate in ...

From The Guardian: "The Free Our Data campaign has scored a major victory, with the announcement by the government that it intends to make Ordnance Survey maps free for use online by any organisation - including commercial ones - at resolutions more detailed than commercial 1:25,000 Landranger maps ...

The November issue of Biblio Tech Review is now available. This issue includes: * EBSCO Launches Mobile Phone Version of EBSCOhost * VTLS EMEA Office Announces New Customers * TLC Announces LS2 PAC and Google Analytics Integration * Kinokuniya Company to Implement Ringgold Identifier

London Borough of Croydon's library service has begun a scheme to enable residents with disabilities to borrow digital books. People can use their library cards to register and then download books as text or audio files, which can be read on screen or downloaded and listened to on an MP3 player. Once ...

JISC Inform 26 is now available from the Joint Information Systems Committee

The latest collection on Footnote.com is the Native American Collection. Working together with the National Archives and Allen County Library, Footnote.com has created a unique collection that will help people discover new details about Native American history. The Footnote Interactive Native American ...

"A year after its launch by 25 leading U.S. research libraries, HathiTrust Digital Library announces a service that will transform how researchers use the more than 1.6 billion pages (4.6 million volumes) in its collections. The breakthrough allows for full-text searching capabilities across the entire ...

Library Journal Best Books 2009 has been announced