New Digital Partners: Google and the British Library

Per the agreement, 250 000 out-of-copyright titles representing 40 million pages from 1700-1870, from the French Revolution to the end of slavery will be digitized.

Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, The Natural History of the Hippopotamusor River horse. 1775 (2), British Library Board

"Once digitised, these unique items will be available for full text search, download and reading through Google Books, as well as being searchable through the Library’s website and stored in perpetuity within the Library’s digital archive."[Click for full press release]

Amazon announces Kindle Library Lending Program

Press relase from Amazon and from Overdrive, digital distributor of eBooks for many libraries, and Amazon's partner in this program.

The release is planned for later this year in the US.

Milestone: more people get their news online than in print

The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism has released its latest report on the "State of the Media." 

The study finds that, "When it came to any kind of news, 46% of people now say they get news online at least three times a week, surpassing newspapers (40%) for the first time."

Source: Nielsen Media Research, Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, Audit Bureau of Circulation

Higher Education Emerging Technologies for 2011

Per Educause press release:

Each year, the Horizon Report describes six areas of emerging technology that will have significant impact on higher education and creative expression over the next one to five years. The areas of emerging technology cited for 2011 are:

Time to adoption: One Year or Less

• Electronic Books
• Mobiles

Time to adoption: Two to Three Years

• Augmented Reality
• Game-based Learning

Time to adoption: Four to Five Years

• Gesture-based Computing
• Learning Analytics

Yale's School of Management gets $10m to build new library

FT article: Business school news - Wilbur Ross gives Yale $10m to build new library

Article from Yale's School of Management site: Investor Wilbur Ross Makes Major Gift to Support New Yale SOM Campus

Picture from Yale's website."An illustration of a proposed design for library space in the new Yale SOM campus."

A Library Without Walls

New York Review of Books article by Robert Darnton, Harvard Libraries Director on creating a worldwide and digital equivalent of the Library of Congress.

Follow up interview from the Chronicle with Mr. Darnton: One Step Closer to a National Digital Library