British Library plans to archive whole UK Web
News The consortium, led by the British Library, includes the Wellcome Trust, the National Archives and the Scottish and Welsh national libraries. Richard Boulderstone, director of e-strategy at the British Library, said that all types of material will...
[June 24, 2004, 15:00]
British Library lists rare books on Amazon
News In October, legal changes allowed the library to add archives of Web sites and emails to its legal deposit of printed materials. The British Library has opened up its extensive bibliographic records to the Internet, adding millions of records to...
[November 24, 2003, 17:00]
Gates recruits British Library to push Vista...
Blog To add some gravitas and historical perspective to the launch of Vista, Gates was joined on stage by the chief executive of the British Library Lynne Brindley, who was on hand to discuss how the library is using Vista to digitise its archives.
[January 30, 2007, 10:37]
The British Library needs you
Blog The conference is the first event of its kind undertaken by the British Library which itself is responsible for the safekeeping of the biggest single slice of that history in its archives around the country.
[February 10, 2009, 20:02]
Government intellectual property under scrutiny
News It is funded by the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency, the British Library, the Department for Education and Skills, JISC (the Joint Information Systems Committee) and MLA (the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council) on...
[June 30, 2005, 16:05]
Report backs PDF variant for long-term archiving
News On Thursday the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC), a UK-based not-for-profit organisation with the National Archives and the British Library among the membership, issued a report in which it called for PDF/A to be employed by organisations...
[April 24, 2008, 17:22]
EC to rival Google with massive digital library
News The Commission acknowledged that making the resources in Europe's libraries and archives available on the Internet "is not straightforward" and sets out three key areas for action; digitisation, online accessibility and digital preservation.
[October 3, 2005, 12:35]
Raiders of the lost archive
Leader The UK's National Archives (NA) is in the process of finding out how true that statement is. The British Library, an organisation facing many of the same challenges as the NA, has admitted that the only thing organisations really know about digital...
[July 5, 2007, 17:41]
Gates donates £2.6m to provide UK libraries with Net access
News More than 350 libraries in some of the most socially excluded areas will benefit [from the gift], which will be to the enormous value of both libraries and library users," said Lord Evans, chairman of Resource -- the council for British museums...
[July 25, 2001, 12:38]
