From The Next Web: The Spectator is a weekly magazine with a conservative leaning, and it’s one of the oldest continually-published magazines in the English-speaking world, having first gone to print on 6 July, 1828. It is currently owned by David and Frederick Barclay, who also own another prominent conservative title, The Daily Telegraph newspaper [...]
UK: Magazines: The Spectator Set to Debut Online Archive Containing More Than 180 Years Worth of Content
Filed by on March 15, 2012
Content: Project Barcelona to See BBC Open Archive for Downloads
Filed by on March 14, 2012
From the BBC: BBC director general Mark Thompson has announced proposals allowing viewers to permanently download copies of their favourite shows from the archives. Mr Thompson said the plan – named Project Barcelona – would enable the purchase of programmes to own for a “relatively modest” fee. He added that the digital archive would stay [...]
Video: UK Culture Minister Says Libraries Aren't in Crisis
Filed by on March 14, 2012
From the Oxford Mail: [UK] Culture Minister Ed Vaizey yesterday told MPs there was no libraries crisis. [Clip] He told MPs there was “no crisis” in the library service and said it was vital to be realistic about changes in provision. He said: “If you said we’re not going to have every library as a [...]
UK: How to Get Ahead In … Library Services, Lean About a New Pilot Project
Filed by on March 8, 2012
From The Guardian: A pilot scheme will help connect visitors to digital information that could change their lives – and a new national library service. Local library staff are being trained to show customers how to access potentially life-changing advice and information online in a pilot scheme which could create a new national library service. [...]
British Library Welcomes Public Consultation on Non-Print Legal Deposit
Filed by on February 27, 2012
From the BL: The British Library welcomes the publication of the DCMS [Dept. of Culture, Media, and Sport] consultation, “Consultation on the Draft Legal Deposit Libraries (non-print works) Regulations 2013” and the commitment to deliver regulations for non-print legal deposit. Since the introduction of the 2003 Legal Deposit Libraries Act, the Legal Deposit Libraries have [...]
New Article: "OpenART: Open Metadata for Art Research at the Tate"
Filed by on February 21, 2012
Title OpenART: Open Metadata for Art Research at the Tate Author by Julie Allinson Source Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (February/March 2012; Vol. 38 No. 3) From the Introduction OpenART (http://yorkdl.wordpress.com/category/openart) was a six-month project funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) in the United Kingdom under their Infrastructure [...]
UK: Volume of eBook Purchases Rising But Value of eBook Sales Shrinking
Filed by on February 14, 2012
From a BML/ProQuest News Release: E-book sales are rising to offset a decline in physical book purchases, but only in volume. With the lower price points of e-books versus their print counterparts, the value of book sales is shrinking.” “The Books & Consumers survey shows that in the 48 weeks ending 27th November 2011, compared [...]
UK: Library Closures Inquiry Begins & Full Text of Public Inquiry Responses
Filed by on February 7, 2012
From the BBC: MPs have begun hearing evidence at a Select Committee inquiry on library closures. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has been requesting views on the service since November. [Clip] When MPs questioned whether libraries could compete with the technology of the 21st Century, Ms [Abigail] Barker [a member of Voices [...]
New Rankings: The Top 10 Books Borrowed at UK Libraries 2010-2011
Filed by on February 3, 2012
From Public Lending Right: Thrillers and crime novels by American writers dominate the Top 10 list of the Most Borrowed Titles from UK libraries, according to annual data released today by Public Lending Right (PLR) on the eve of National Libraries Day. The UK’s Most Borrowed Title of 2010/2011 was “The Lost Symbol” by Dan [...]
Government Information: Introducing the Beta of Gov.uk
Filed by on February 1, 2012
From the UK’s Office of Government Digital Services: A few minutes ago we released the first phase of the beta test of GOV.UK – the next step on the journey towards a single domain for central government. As Mike Bracken, HMG Executive Director for Digital said, our aim is to deliver simpler, clearer, faster services for users [...]
