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Libraries are in the mix in a European Union (EU) action plan. The initiative will be part of the EU's Work Plan for Culture, which will be developed over the [...]

After the trials and tribulations of COVID-related lockdowns and restrictions, the European book market appears to be fairly tickety-boo. Recent figures from the Federation of European Publishers (FEP)--based on information [...]

There is seldom a dull moment in the ever-evolving world of OA. Cambridge University Press has put its foot on the OA gas pedal, announcing that it will waive OA [...]

Public libraries in the Republic of Ireland recently faced demonstrations by protesters who want certain books removed from the shelves. The protests and book removal attempts are backed by the [...]

Liberia is set to have its first modern public library. Work has begun on the Liberian Learning Center, a complex of three facilities in Paynesville, which is close to Liberian [...]

Thanks to a drop of serendipity and a big dollop of AI (plus human effort by university researchers), a previously anonymous work housed in the archives of the National Library [...]

Will anyone offer a home to a library of Esperanto books? The Icelandic Esperanto Association recently sold its premises and is looking for a new location for its collection of [...]

Wiley may have retreated from its plan to pull more than 1,300 ebooks from higher education libraries, but the president of the Library Association of Ireland (LAI), Cathal McCauley, says [...]

Scholars at German universities and research institutes are lapping up the OA publishing made possible by a 2019 agreement between Springer Nature and university consortium Projekt DEAL. In a recent [...]

There can't be many parents who haven't put a bare foot on a seemingly indestructible plastic brick. Despite my children growing up years ago, those bricks still lurk in my [...]

Extending the term of copyrighted works in New Zealand is causing something of a kerfuffle. The extensions are included in free trade deals that have been agreed upon between New [...]

It's an ill wind that blows no good. Pacific island nation Tonga got its first public library in October 2019. Two years and 3 months later, trouble arrived in the [...]

When it comes to digitizing cultural collections, Sweden is bringing up the rear. At least that's the view of some librarians at Sweden's five largest universities, plus the national library, [...]

Archivists and curators in Poland are combing through a large archive of Masonic records that were amassed by the Germans before World War II. The 80,000-plus documents and files are [...]

After almost 10 years of renovation, the former French royal library building is due to reopen to the public later this year. Known as the Richelieu site, it is part [...]

Prince Charles has thrown his royal weight behind a fundraising campaign to keep a treasure trove of literary manuscripts in the U.K. He is patron of the Friends of the [...]

Glasses of sauvignon blanc all around! A report has found that the European Commission's OA policy, funded by the European Union (EU), is succeeding, although improvements need to be made. [...]

The National Library of New Zealand's big book giveaway is being slammed by opponents who think the move is little short of cultural vandalism. The library plans to donate 600,000 [...]

Given the mountains of material hosted on third-party platforms, it's little surprise that copyright issues continue to make waves. The latest ones washing up at the Court of Justice of [...]

After the fire comes the rebuild. And so that is the case with the University of Cape Town's (UCT) Jagger Library, which recently caught fire. The blaze, which spread from [...]

On the face of it, doom and gloom are the order of the day for Europe's COVID-hit book market--and yet, a recent report provides some straws for bibliophiles to clutch [...]

If readers yearn to buy a first edition of a volume of Marcel Proust's novel In Search of Lost Time, they had better be prepared to sell their house. The [...]

Old video games that ran on ropy 1980s-era devices are the sort of thing most people want to get rid of. Not the National Library of Spain. It wants those [...]

Many weeks after two very valuable Charles Darwin notebooks were reported stolen by Cambridge University Library, there is not a sniff as to their whereabouts. That's hardly surprising, as they [...]

The years take their toll on most things, and the Old Library at Trinity College Dublin is no exception. It faces major redevelopment after planning permission for the work was [...]

One of the U.K.'s best-known historians recently ruffled the British Library's feathers following comments related to the Black Lives Matter movement. David Starkey gave an interview at the end of [...]