The Culture, Media and Sport select committee inquiry into library closures will begin hearing... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-02-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Culture minister Ed Vaizey has repeated his assertion that secretary of state Jeremy Hunt will... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
National Geographic will debut its version of the content archive this spring. Positioned as a resource for libraries and researchers, the National Geographic Magazine Archive will includes every issue of the publication from 1888 to 1994 (such as the June 1985 issue, pictured). Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2012-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
A library in Bexley is to introduce a paid membership system once it leaves council control this... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Members of six organisations have announced they will gather to lobby parliament on cuts to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
A series of funding cuts to libraries in Somerset has been halted, after the High Court found... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Liverpool is the latest city to suffer library cuts as the council announced three locations will... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Library campaigners on watch outside Brent's Preston Library cried "Shame on you"... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Google Books and the French online publication ActuaLitté have launched a digital library... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Actor Simon Callow has donated 1,000 of his own books to the Westminster Reference Library. Most... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hertfordshire county council has voted through the closure of its school library service. The... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
The court of appeal has rejected the Brent library campaigners' appeal against the closure of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
In November, when Penguin abruptly announced it was pulling its frontlist ebooks from library lending programs, the move was widely perceived as a response to Amazonand a warning that, whatever the outcome of this latest struggle over ebooks, libraries are poised to become collateral damage. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Three Twin Cities literary presses already renowned for collaborating in unconventional ways to promote books and authors are partnering with a Wisconsin literacy group and a Minneapolis museum to promote literacy, publicize the mission of each of the nonprofit organizations involved, and sell... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-12-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Google is partnering with Bloomsbury's Public Library Online, sponsoring two of the digital... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Somerset County Council has confirmed it is reversing its library cuts programme following the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Letterbox Library, a supplier of multicultural books to schools and early years settings, is... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Even in tense times, there is far more that unites publishers and libraries than divides them. And if one needs proof that librarians and publishers share common goals and can work together to mutual benefit, they need look no further than the career of Marcia Purcell, Random Houses v-p of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin UK is now withholding the supply of its new ebook releases to its library suppliers in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-11-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Benedicte Page Publication Date: Mon, 14/11/2011 - 15:15 The Teeside village of Great Ayton is proposing a tax increase in the parish precept in order to save its library, threatened by North Yorkshire county council (NYCC) funding cuts. read more Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]