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David Shumaker, associate professor at the Catholic University of America (CUA), has received the 2009 Rose Vormelker Award for excellence in guiding and mentoring future information professionals and librarians awarded by the Special Libraries Association (SLA)

For the third year in a row, average salaries for information professionals in the US and Canada have increased, according to the results of annual salary survey released by the Special Libraries Association (SLA)

The British Library has introduced a host of innovative search and data mining tools designed to help researchers access and exploit millions of research articles and papers held by UK PubMed Central (UKPMC)

In a bid to ensure that the findings of scientific research are effectively translated from the lab to public policies, the British Library and the National Cancer Research Institution (NCRI) are hosting a conference - Cancer Research: Lost in Translation - on January 19.

The British Library’s Additional Storage Building (ASB) – world’s most advanced library storage facility worth £26m was unveiled at its Boston Spa site in West Yorkshire by Minister Rosie Winterton

Dr Hazel Hall, director of the Centre for Social Informatics, Edinburgh Napier University and the executive secretary, Library and Information Science Coalition was named the IWR Information of the Year today (Tuesday) at the Online Information Conference 2009 in London.

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The British Library has added the 500,000th item to its long-term digital library programme, now aiming to prepare the system for more challenging and complicated digital formats of information in the future

Credo Reference, the online reference library, is making 70 reference titles from international publisher Sage available through its platform. The Publisher Collection will offer Sage resources either as a complete collection or as individual titles.