Although Google has halted its own newspaper scanning project, the tech giant is still working to make books available freely online. The company announced Monday that it is working to digitize some 250,000 out-of-copyright volumes from the vast holdings of the British Library.

Scanned items, which will be selected by the British Library and handled (as well as paid for) by Google, will be made available for free at books.google.co.uk and the British Librarys website. Users can download and read items through Google Books, as well as conduct full-text searches.

To date, an ever-growing amount of digitised collections including moving images and cinema related material is widely dispersed across Europe. Domain specific research across the various repositories, institutions and countries is still lacking.

Initiated by ACE (Association des Cinémathèques Européennes) and the Europeana Foundation, the EFG project develops an online portal providing direct access to about 700,000 digital objects including photos, posters, film set drawings, newsreels, feature and short films as well as various text documents such as film programmes and censorship cards. Content is mainly provided by 15 European film archives and cinematheques, which are partners in the project. The collections to be made accessible have been selected to serve as a sample representing the actual digitised content held in the film institutions.

Bose Corporation will remain private and independent; dividends will sustain and advance MITs mission

Dr. Amar Bose 51, Bose Corporations Founder, has given to MIT the majority of the stock of Bose Corporation in the form of non-voting shares.

MIT will receive annual cash dividends on those shares when dividends are paid by Bose Corporation; those cash dividends will be used by MIT to sustain and advance MITs education and research mission.

Under the terms of the gift, MIT cannot sell its Bose shares and will not participate in the management or governance of the company. Bose Corporation will remain a private and independent company, and operate as it always has, with no change in strategy or leadership. Dr. Bose will remain Bose Corporations Chairman and Technical Director.

The 3rd MediaCity conference will investigate how new media re-define social settings and urban spaces and how they influence architecture as well as media art & design in urban contexts, thus constituting new social and cultural practices.

Arts Manager, the web platform for Russian arts managers, has made an interview with Marco Mancuso, the creator and director of the «Digicult» project, covering issues of digital culture on the internet and project management.

China Book Publishing: The Official Industry Report is a revised and expanded edition of China Book Publishing: The First Official Industry Report published in 2007. In addition to new chapters analyzing publishers and their products, the book also provides a more detailed investigation of the human resources in Chinas publishing industry. It aims to present a general picture of the industry, covering industrial environment, press-based performance, book exports, copyright trade, and so on. It will definitely serve as a comprehensive and authoritative reference book for media authorities, researchers, publishing professionals, and anyone who is interested in Chinas book publishing industry.

Washington, D.C., January 12, 2009 -- For the first time in more than 25 years, American adults are reading more literature, according to a new study by the National Endowment for the Arts. Reading on the Rise documents a definitive increase in rates and numbers of American adults who read literature, with the biggest increases among young adults, ages 18-24. This new growth reverses two decades of downward trends cited previously in NEA reports such as Reading at Risk and To Read or Not To Read.

The Southern African International Film and Television Market (Sithengi), suspended in 2007 after 11 editions due to serious financial problems, has been revived.

Dirk Heinze, editor-in-chief of Arts Management Network, led an interview with Brian Schottlaender, who is University Librarian at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). This library is famous not only for an impressive architecture of the main building, but also for its digital library, the general strategic management or for its extensive staff training. In the interview, Brian Schottlaender makes obvious, how a strategic plan can be implemented in an organization and how it can be proceeded by the entire management staff.

Author : Robert D. Stueart, Barbara B. Moran

The latest edition of this management classic sports a fresh new look to complement its updated content. It continues to cover all of the important functions involved in library management and development. New chapters on marketing, team building and ethics have been added; thought provoking mini-cases and other activities introduced or expanded; and more international materials referenced than ever before. A perennial favorite in the classroom, an invaluable reference source for information managers everywhere.

Author and radio personality Garrison Keillor, who stated that "libraries are the best counter terrorism tool we have," brought to a close the largest conference in the history of the American Library Association (ALA). More than 28,635 librarians, exhibitors and library supporters attended the 128th ALA Annual Conference at the Washington Convention Center from June 21 to 27. According to the Washington, D.C. Tourism Bureau, the conference generated more than $15.6 million in revenue for the local economy.

Preview on the World Library and Information Congress / 73rd IFLA General Conference and Council in Durban (South Africa), August 19-23, 2007

BLIDA (European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation Associations), EUCLID (the European Association for Library and Information Education and Research) and the BAD (the Portuguese Association of Librarians, Archivists and Documentalists) are proud to announce their first ever joint conference to be held in Lisbon (Auditorium of the Direcção-Geral de Arquivos Alameda da Universidade 1649-010 Lisboa, Portugal) from the 19th to the 21st of September 2007.