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Information Today
August 29, 2013 |
Researchers Granted Access to Digitized Malay Manuscripts The British Library recently signed an agreement with the National Library Board Singapore so researchers can access the BL's Malay manuscript collection for free online.   |
Information Today
December 19, 2013 |
National Library to Digitize Norway's Books The entire digital collection is available for researchers working on-site at the National Library. The library estimates that it will spend 20-30 years digitizing all titles. |
Information Today
June 27, 2011
Barbara Quint |
The British Library Joins Google Books Google Books continues its march through the national libraries of Europe with the announcement of a deal with the British Library. |
Information Today
August 13, 2013 |
The British Library and the Qatar National Library Digitize Collections The project will convert maps, photographs, manuscripts, and letters into freely available digital formats in English and Arabic to trace the history of Great Britain's involvement in the Middle East. |
Information Today
August 13, 2015 |
Innovative's SkyRiver Gains British Library Metadata SkyRiver, a cataloging utility product from Innovative, is making more than 3.5 million records from the British Library's British National Bibliography available to library customers. |
InternetNews
November 7, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Microsoft to Scan Brit Books Scanning the collection of the prestigious British Library is a big job - and Microsoft wants to do it. |
Information Today
November 2007
Jim Ashling |
Progress Report: The British Library and Microsoft Digitization Partnership Microsoft and The British Library (BL) plan to digitize 100,000 out of copyright titles and make them accessible via Microsoft's Live Search Books site. |
Information Today
July 16, 2015 |
British Library Document Supply Service Content Is Now Available via ingentaconnect The British Library and Publishing Technology, PLC teamed up to make 5,400 new journals and books available on Publishing Technology's ingentaconnect platform. |
Information Today
February 25, 2010
Barbara Quint |
19th-Century Books From The British Library on Kindle for Free Last year, Microsoft completed its digitization obligations to The British Library and handed over 25 million pages in 65,000 19th-century books. |
Information Today
January 5, 2016 |
British Library Makes Digitization Progress on Historic Maps The British Library is a quarter of the way through its project to re-catalog, digitize, and conserve King George III's collection of 50,000 maps dating from around 1500 to 1824. |
Information Today
August 26, 2010 |
The British Library to Offer Free Access to Bibliographic Records The U.K. national library has around 14 million catalogue records comprising a wealth of bibliographic data. The initiative will help expose this vast dataset to users worldwide. |
Information Today
June 10, 2010 |
Bowker Enhances Its Suite of Library Resources Enhancements include Books In Print, Syndetic Solutions, and Library Thing For Libraries products. The efforts are designed to enhance the bibliographic content found in library online catalogues. |
Search Engine Watch
December 14, 2004
Gary Price |
Google Partners with Oxford, Harvard & Others to Digitize Libraries Google is working closely with five new content partners on a massive scanning project that will bring millions of volumes of printed books into the Google Print database. |
Information Today
May 23, 2011 |
National Library of France Embarks on Huge Digitization Project The BnF, the National Library of France, has signed a new deal with the Jouve-Safig-Diadeis partnership for the digitization of its print collections. |
Information Today
June 25, 2012 |
Penguin Group Launches Library Lending Pilot Program Penguin Group, The New York Public Library, and 3M Library Systems announced a pilot project that will make Penguin eBooks available to patrons of both The New York Public Library and the Brooklyn Public Library. |
Information Today
August 5, 2014 |
Wellcome Library and Jisc Will Digitize Historic Medical Books The Wellcome Library, part of the Wellcome Trust, and Jisc partnered with nine institutions, including six universities, for a 2-year digitization project encompassing 19th-century medical books and pamphlets. |
Search Engine Watch
November 22, 2005
Sullivan & Price |
World Digital Library Project Announced, Backed by Library of Congress & Google The United States Library of Congress has announced the creation of the World Digital Library, a project that's also received its first $3 million in funding from Google. |
D-Lib
August 2007
Bonita Wilson |
Book Digitization Options for Libraries Online bookseller Amazon plans to digitize thousands of books through agreements with university and public libraries. Amazon plans to sell hard copies of the digitized books on a print-on-demand basis. |
Information Today
November 22, 2010 |
The British Library Adds 12 Million Records to WorldCat As a result of the cooperative effort, OCLC and the British Library have enhanced the process to add these valuable records to WorldCat for the benefit of researchers worldwide. |
Information Today
June 2, 2015 |
ProQuest Rolls Out Genealogy Resource ProQuest added Ancestry.com's Fold3 Library Edition to its line of family history products. |
D-Lib
September 2006
Bonita Wilson |
Preserving Information, Not Formats Dealing with materials that have existed solely in digital format is easier than contemplating what to do with print materials for which there is no longer space or budget available for maintenance. |
Information Today
August 15, 2005
Barbara Quint |
Google slows library project to accommodate publishers Publishers complain about copyright issues with Google's Print for Libraries program. |
Information Today
March 13, 2006
Barbara Quint |
Google Scholar Adds Pay-Per-View Delivery from The British Library Google Scholar continues to enhance its ability to not only find scholarly content but also to fetch it. |
Information Today
February 5, 2009 |
Cornell University Library Expands POD on Amazon Expanding an ongoing partnership with Amazon.com, Cornell University Library is increasing its print-on-demand (POD) offerings to more than 80,000 titles. |
Information Today
October 28, 2014 |
Manuscripts From the Vatican Library Are Free Online The Vatican Library is working on a digitization project that will make its archive of 82,000 ancient manuscripts available to the public for free. |
Information Today
September 8, 2015 |
ProQuest Makes More Early European Books Available ProQuest launched Collection 7, the newest part of its Early European Books database, with 7,450 titles. |
Information Today
November 8, 2010 |
JSTOR and Serials Solutions Partner to Enhance Discoverability of Resources A pilot project will allow students and researchers at institutions subscribing to the Summon web-scale discovery service to automatically find their library's Summon service search box when they use JSTOR. |
D-Lib
September 2005
Lavoie et al. |
Anatomy of Aggregate Collections: The Example of Google Print for Libraries As mass digitization programs become more common, many are likely to originate within the library community itself, rather than through external organizations like Google. |
Information Today
March 17, 2015 |
DPLA Moves Forward With Public Library Partnership Project The Minnesota Digital Library received a grant -- as one of the Digital Public Library of America's four service hubs to get an award -- to work on the Public Library Partnership Project |
InternetNews
November 3, 2005
Tim Gray |
Google Opens Library Doors to the World The first large scale collection of public domain books went live online today as part of search giant Google's plan to amass the world of letters on the Internet. |
Information Today
November 28, 2013 |
OverDrive Launches Streaming Video Service Pilot Patrons of the Los Angeles Public Library can borrow videos from the library's website and view them on any computer, tablet, or mobile device with an internet connection. |
Information Today
January 3, 2013 |
OverDrive Announces Record Ebook Traffic and Next Gen Services Public libraries using OverDrive's Next Generation digital lending platform served a record number of ebook, audiobook, music, and video titles to patrons on Christmas Day. |
Information Today
March 20, 2006 |
Weekly News Digest OCLC PICA Expands Open WorldCat for Europe... New Social Services Directory Available Online... etc. |
Information Today
September 10, 2009 |
Rare Sound Recordings Now Available Free Online The British Library has made nearly 28,000 rare music and sound recordings from its massive collection, reputed to be one of the largest sound archives in the world, available for free online |
Information Today
June 11, 2015 |
Ratings and Reviews Come to Boopsie Mobile App Boopsie for Libraries will add rating and reviewing capabilities to its mobile platform. |
Information Today
September 15, 2015 |
Innovative Lays Out Strategic Goals Innovative released a set of strategic goals for the following areas: library success, employee success, product leadership, and library partnership. |
Information Today
March 17, 2015 |
TLC Displays Reading Levels in Its ILS Products The Library Corp. added Reading Level Integration to its Library*Solution and Library*Solution for Schools. |
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Better Late Than Never Staff at a British library say they were surprised and puzzled when they received a book that was 45 years overdue through their mailbox. |
Information Today
December 16, 2002 |
NewsBreaks Weekly News Digest Lycos Launches New Version of HotBot... The British Library Teams up with Adobe for Secure EDD... Classical.com Offers Library Subscription Service |
Information Today
October 1, 2015 |
hoopla Opens to University Libraries hoopla signed California State University-San Bernardino as the first library in its pilot program for academic libraries. |
Information Today
October 2, 2006
Robin Peek |
The British Library Releases Intellectual Property Manifesto The British Library released a document called "Intellectual Property: A Balance - The British Library Manifesto," which tackles increasingly unforgiving intellectual property laws. |
Information Today
November 4, 2010 |
University of Pittsburgh Library System Joins HathiTrust This library is the newest member of HathiTrust, a partnership of major academic and research libraries collaborating in a digital library initiative to preserve and provide access to the published record in digital form. |
Information Today
November 19, 2013 |
OverDrive Media Station Debuts Patrons have a new way to browse a library's ebook, audiobook, music, and video collections: The OverDrive Media Station is available as a browsing and checkout terminal for all OverDrive member library systems. |
Chemistry World
January 10, 2012
Rajesh Parishwad |
Indian science needs to raise its game Despite a three-fold increase in public R&D in the last five years, Indian science and research is yet to make a significant impact on the global scene according to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. |
Information Today
August 29, 2005
Barbara Quint |
CORRECTIONS: Google Print Not All I Said It Was Google does not supply publishers with e-books as part of the Google Print program, contrary to earlier reporting. Other errors in the Google Print reporting were also discovered. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2009
Brian Lavoie |
Beyond 1923 Characteristics of potentially in-copyright print books in library collections. |
Information Today
June 13, 2011 |
The New Physical Archive of the Internet Archive Internet Archive announced it is building a physical archive for the long-term preservation of one copy of every book, record, and movie it is able to attract or acquire. |
Information Today
December 20, 2004
Barbara Quint |
Google and Research Libraries Launch Massive Digitization Project Google has launched a program with a number of research libraries which aims at ultimately scanning all the books in their collections. Could this mark the beginning of the end of brick-and-mortar libraries? |
Searcher
April 2007
Grogg & Ashmore |
Google Book Search Libraries and Their Digital Copies Few things in the past decade have brought libraries and subsequent controversy into the mainstream media as much as the google book search library project. |
Information Today
July 28, 2011 |
Wellcome Library Partners With ProQuest to Digitize Early European Books The collection will be made available through ProQuest's new Early European Books database, a sister project to the Early English Books Online. |
