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Bringing the Tucson-Pima Public Library into the 21st Century
White Papers Like many community libraries, Arizona’s Tucson-Pima Public Library doesn’t have room to accommodate traditional desktop computers. Download this short but informative case study to learn why the Gateway Profile PCs are so popular among the library...
[December 20, 2005, 14:17]
Calgary Public Library Turns a New Page With Cisco IP Communications
White Papers With over 31 million customer interactions each year, the Calgary Public Library is one of the largest library systems in North America. Over the past several years, the Calgary library system has grown exponentially.
[June 2, 2006, 0:00]
Tucson Pima Public Library: Stepping Up Efficiency
White Papers Serving the City of Tucson and Pima County, Arizona, the Tucson- Pima Public Library is a 22-branch library system with approximately two million books and other items. The library's primary interest in installing an RFID system was to have self...
[January 24, 2006, 23:00]
Providence Public Library Chooses Siemens HiPath IP Solutions for a Cost-Effective Centrex Alternative and to Improve Patron Service
White Papers Public Library system feared a big boost in its monthly telephone cost - but without adding any new features or services. Instead, the Library chose a Siemens HiPath Real-Time IP System for its calling, call-handling and messaging needs.
[August 3, 2006, 0:00]
Google to digitise books from University of California
News Google has been working since last year to scan, digitise and make searchable public domain and copyright-protected books from the university collections of the Library of Congress; Oxford, Harvard and Stanford universities; the University of...
[August 9, 2006, 10:05]
Google to unlock libraries
News On Tuesday, the Mountain View, California-based company is expected to announce relationships with five major libraries, including the Oxford University and the New York Public Library, to create digital copies of some books so that they may be...
[December 14, 2004, 8:50]
Google Print faces further delays
News Tyler declined to be more specific about the timing, but did say that scanners will start with older parts of the participating library collections, which tend to include more public domain and out-of-print books than books still under copyright...
[November 4, 2005, 8:40]
Institutions team for online knowledge resource
News The current partners behind the site include Columbia University, the London School of Economics, Cambridge University Press, the British Library, the Smithsonian Institution's Natural Museum of Natural History , and the New York Public Library.
[April 4, 2000, 13:48]
US Congress ignites Net filter fight
News Two years ago, in Loudoun County, Virginia, a judge ruled that a plan to install filtering software in the county's public library violated free speech. It's a violation by censoring what adults can view in a library," said Ann Beeson, an ACLU...
[December 19, 2000, 15:10]
Gates donates £2.6m to provide UK libraries with Net access
News Each library benefiting from the grant will be able to install between two and 12 additional terminals with free Internet connection for local residents. More than 350 libraries in some of the most socially excluded areas will benefit [from the...
[July 25, 2001, 12:38]
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]
Amazon ups the ante for digitisation
News York Public Library. Is it any coincidence it's on the same day Google says it's added thousands of scanned library books to its search database? The Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers are suing Google over its Google Print...
[November 10, 2005, 17:15]
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]
US Army apologises for threats
News Reproducing a secret publication on a public Web site is a serious issue with federal criminal implications," Thomas Harman, chief of the Army's electronic library branch, had written in an email message to FAS.
[February 6, 2004, 9:55]
Google offers free PDFs of books
News Partners in Google's project to digitise library books in the US and the UK include the University of California, Harvard University, University of Michigan, The New York Public Library, Oxford University and Stanford University.
[August 31, 2006, 9:55]
No need to burn books you can't read - DRM and public libraries
Blog British Library, are you listening? One of the sources is - or was - the British Library Document Supply Services, who deliver scans of documents over email. The British Library, Microsoft and Adobe can go shove their DRM up their document delivery...
[October 14, 2008, 16:13]
Birmingham begins major open source pilot
News Public terminals in libraries will be shifted to Linux, as well as office systems in the library service. The council - the largest in Europe - will move 1,500 desktops and all the associated back-end servers in its library service to Linux and...
[May 16, 2005, 17:55]
Libraries not actually a failure
Talkback Apart from the ridiculous 1500 desktops quote "plucked from the air", 200 desktops out of 400 is probably not far off the mark, my maths are as follows:- district libraries and 1 central library.public access computers in the central library (10...
[November 28, 2006, 16:03]
Libraries not actually a failure
Talkback Apart from the ridiculous 1500 desktops quote "plucked from the air", 200 desktops out of 400 is probably not far off the mark, my maths are as follows:- district libraries and 1 central library.public access computers in the central library (10...
[November 28, 2006, 14:32]
BBC touts free archive
News The BBC probably has the best television library in the world," Dyke said while speaking at the Edinburgh International Television Festival. A student using a broadband connection from home or the library, for example, could access BBC material to...
[August 26, 2003, 9:20]
