Culture minister Ed Vaizey will be interviewed by the culture, media and sport select committee... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin drops over-the-air downloads; now only Random House gives libraries unrestricted access to purchase and loan ebooks. Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2012-02-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
David Pugh, council leader at the Isle of Wight, will be among those giving evidence at the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-02-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Public policy consultant Sue Charteris has told the media, culture and sport parliamentary select... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Former children's laureate Anne Fine has condemned plans to cut Durham library services,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]