Wednesday, 16 May 2012
The UK Government has announced plans to make all taxpayer-funded academic research in Britain available online for free in two years, reports the Guardian. The plans, which were announced by...

Wednesday, 16 May 2012
The Lillian Goldman Library at Yale Law School has gone live with the Sierra Services Platform created by Innovative. Sierra is built on an open-systems architecture that provides a library with...

Wednesday, 16 May 2012
The Harvard Crimson reports that 65 Harvard University Library employees have accepted early retirement packages as part of the Library’s Voluntary Early Retirement Incentive Program. As previously reported by Bookseller+Publisher,...

Tuesday, 15 May 2012
Libraries in the US states of Georgia, Florida and Wisconsin have chosen not to stock Fifty Shades of Grey, the trilogy of erotic novels by EL James, due to its...

Tuesday, 15 May 2012
Composer Burt Bacharach and lyricist Hal David have been awarded the ‘Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song’, which celebrates artists whose career reflects lifetime achievement in promoting song as...

Tuesday, 15 May 2012
The city of Norwich, in Norfolk in England, has been named a City of Literature by the United Nation’s cultural arm UNESCO. Norwich joins five other UNESCO Cities of Literature,...

Tuesday, 15 May 2012
In France, Hachette Livre has dropped the retail prices for ebooks to the level of the paperback editions of approximately 2000 literary titles published in hardback, reports the Bookseller. According...

Wednesday, 9 May 2012
Carolyn Anthony, director of the Skokie Public Library in Illinois, has been elected the 2013-2014 president of the Public Library Association (PLA) in America.  Anthony will become PLA president-elect at...