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MP: British Library Must Lead The Charge On DRM
News Derek Wyatt MP has called on the British Library to lead the debate on digital rights management (DRM), and present the results to government. The chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Internet Group (APIG) said on Tuesday that the British...
[March 14, 2006, 16:25]
Managing Our Personal Digital Collections
Forum I am a Research Fellow working at UCL with the British Library and Bristol University on a project to better understand personal information management behaviour and what this might mean for digital archiving by institutions such as the British...
[May 19, 2008, 17:55]
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]
Microsoft Partners With British Library
News Microsoft has signed a deal with the British Library to digitise 100,000 of its books. The software giant will use MSN Book Search to index 25 million pages of British Library content by next year, the pair announced.
[November 4, 2005, 15:25]
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]
London Gets 'largest Ever' Indoor Wi-Fi Site
News The British Library finally launched its wireless network on Tuesday, which it claims is the largest enclosed Wi-Fi hot spot in the UK capital. Broadcom has built a huge Wi-Fi zone outdoors in Central London, but the British Library believes its...
[November 16, 2004, 16:55]
DRM Is Failing, MPs Told
News Appearing at a hearing conducted by the All-Party Parliamentary Internet Group (APIG), senior representatives from the British Library said they were frustrated that DRM is stopping librarians from giving the public long-term access to content.
[February 2, 2006, 16:25]
Campaigners Back Call For DRM Debate
News An MP's suggestion that the British Library moderate the debate over digital rights management (DRM) and copyright law has been welcomed by cyber rights campaigners. Suw Charman, executive director of The Open Rights Group, said on Wednesday that...
[March 15, 2006, 14:25]
Wi-Fi Masterplan Delayed By Reshuffle
News The initiative to wirelessly enable public places and buildings access was due to be launched at the British Library on Tuesday. The event included the launch of 'wireless access for all' at the British Library.
[September 20, 2004, 14:05]
Microsoft Throws Governments A Standardisation Bone
News It's an important step forward for digital preservation and will help us fulfil the British Library's core responsibility of making our digital collections accessible for generations to come," Adam Farquhar, head of e-architecture at the British...
[November 22, 2005, 8:30]
Vista Launches With Help From Da Vinci
News Microsoft chairman Bill Gates chose the historic setting of the British Library to launch Vista, his company's latest incarnation of Windows. Gates was joined on stage by Lynne Brindley, chief executive of the British Library, to discuss how...
[January 30, 2007, 15:58]
British Library Lends Itself To Intellectual-property Wisdom
Leader In the search for sanity in digital rights management, he suggests that the British Library leads the inquiry and report back to government. The British Library itself is built on the 200-year-old Library of the British Museum, with its principle...
[March 15, 2006, 14:35]
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]
Service Level Management Of The German Air Traffic Control: An Integral Part Of The ITIL Process Landscape
White Papers Originally developed by the British government in the late 1980s, ITIL is comprised of a growing series of publications that outline a process-based set of best practices for IT service and systems management.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
IT Service Management: For World-Class Customer Service And Peak Productivity
White Papers Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), developed by the British government in the late 1980s, has become the leading international standard in IT service management processes being adopted in thousands of organizations throughout...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
The Skinny On ITIL
White Papers ITIL (the Information Technology Infrastructure Library) is, after all, a collection of best practices first developed by the British government almost 20 years ago. But ITIL is rapidly gaining ground as an IT governance model in U.S.businesses.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Assyst Enterprise At The British Library Software Solution & Implementation Excellence
White Papers The British Library was established in 1973 by Act of Parliament as the national centre for reference study, bibliographic and other library and information services for science, technology and the humanities.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
ETOM And ITIL: Should You Be Bi-Lingual As An IT Outsourcing Service Provider?
White Papers IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) was developed by the Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency of the British government and adopted by many companies as their internal IT best practice. However, for many of the ICT service providers...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Exploring Partnerships: What Can Producers And Vendors Provide?
White Papers We have evolved from the book style catalogs of a former century that were also made famous in this century by the enormous catalogs such as those of the British Library and our own National Union Catalog-surely the book catalog/union list to end...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Microsoft Partners With British Library
Talkback Oh here we go, great, so half of 'my' British library is going to be accessible by one company and the other for another, and I shouldn't wonder the costs will fluctuate in the same manner - not great.
[November 4, 2005, 15:49]
