Connected Histories: Sources for Building British History, 1500-1900
"Connected Histories will create a federated search facility for a wide range of distributed electronic resources relating to early modern and nineteenth-century British History. Through a combination of web crawling and the application of Natural Language Processing methodology the project will create a non-intrusive, distanced tagging of the data within those distributed sources to facilitate more sophisticated and structured searching"

BETT Awards 2010
"The BETT Awards is an annual scheme that highlights exemplar digital products intended for the education marketplace. The BETT Awards is produced by Emap Connect, the organisers of the largest educational technology show in the world - BETT. The BETT Awards is made possible by working in association with Becta, the Government's lead agency for ICT in education, and BESA, the trade association representing the educational supply industry" - January 13, London, UK

The British Library improves electronic access with new DRM platform from FileOpen Systems
"Responding to customer demand, the British Library, supplying over 1.6m articles every year to researchers all over the world, has added FileOpen to its choice of delivery options via its Document Supply Service. FileOpen's DRM technology will improve accessibility and extend the reach of the British Library's vast resources"

Jamaica joins the Campaign for the World's Libraries
"The Library and Information Association of Jamaica recently became the newest member of the Campaign for the World’s Libraries. The Campaign for the World's Libraries was developed by the America Library Association's Campaign for America's Libraries and the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) to showcase the unique and vital roles played by public, school, academic and special libraries worldwide. It is based on The Campaign for America's Libraries and utilizes the @ your library® brand"

Bibliographie du Québec, 1821-1967
"Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ) has announced the publication of the new online version of the Bibliographie du Québec, 1821-1967. This is a retrospective national bibliography whose scope includes print monographs published or printed in Québec between 1821 and 1967, that is, prior to the effective date of the regulation on legal deposit (Règlement sur le dépôt légal) in 1968. With this tool, BAnQ aims to constitute a complete inventory of publications issued prior to 1968 within Québec's boundaries"