AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Close
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
<a href="http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-160808950/cuts-loom-bl-british.html" title="Facts and information about Cuts loom for BL.(The British Library)(Brief article)">Cuts loom for BL.(The British Library)(Brief article)</a>
Close
Set up an RSS feed that alerts you when new articles from Information World Review are available.
Frequently asked questions about RSS feeds
Cuts loom for BL.(The British Library)(Brief article)
Byline: Tracey Caldwell
Tracey Caldwell
The British Library has painted a dire picture of its future if proposed budget cuts of up to 7% go ahead.
According to the BL, cuts of the magnitude planned by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) are likely to lead to charges for access to reading rooms and the closure of galleries as well as leaving the library unable to fulfill its obligation for the legal deposit of electronic material.
DCMS spokesman Toby Sargent said it had asked all the bodies it funds to model the effect of cuts of between 5% and 7% "as this reflects indications from the Treasury as to ...
Related articles from newspapers, magazines, journals, and more
For more facts and information, see all results
- Eduserv reveals low Shibboleth take-up.(British Library will use Web 2.0)(Brief...
- Magazine article from: Information World Review Caldwell, Tracey September 3, 2007 700+ words
Byline: tracey caldwell British Library annual report becomes a video star Laura Smith The British Library has turned to video and animations...latest Annual Report 2006-07, the British Library has used Web 2.0 technologies such...
- Portal preview - Europe stands together. The European Library has now entered...
- Magazine article from: Information World Review May 7, 2005 700+ words
...integrated into the European Library portal. The listing for the British Library, for instance, has external links to some collections...upon the Girl with a Pearl Earring in the Netherlands. The British Library, a prime mover in the setting up of the European Library...
- CONTENT ANXIETIES IN A DIGITAL AGE.(British Library)
- Magazine article from: Information World Review Caldwell, Tracey June 5, 2006 700+ words
Byline: Tracey Caldwell CONTENT ANXIETIES IN A DIGITAL AGE The British Library has a budget to die for. Yet the massive increase in the volume of information being produced, and rapid changes in the way this...
- OpenText in the Office Tracey Caldwell OpenText is to make its enterprise...
- Magazine article from: Information World Review June 5, 2006 700+ words
Byline: Tracey Caldwell OpenText in the Office Tracey Caldwell OpenText is to make its enterprise content management (ECM) tools accessible through the Microsoft Office 2007 application range. OpenText will combine the information lifecycle...
- Brindley a beacon at BL.(British Library, Lynne Brindley)(Brief article)
- Magazine article from: Information World Review Pickering, Bobby June 5, 2006 700+ words
...full-throttle attack on the current management of the British Library by the historian Tristram Hunt is a piece of elitist nonsense...path forward in content strategy in a digital age -- see Tracey Caldwell's feature in this issue. Brindley's modernisation crusade...
- Surrey Uni gets a First in Institutional Repository. ProQuest wins first...
- Magazine article from: Information World Review Caldwell, Tracey July 25, 2005 700+ words
The University of Surrey has bypassed freeware solutions and signed ProQuest to host its institutional repository. This is the first installation of Digital Commons @ in the UK - a new initiative from database publisher ProQuest. The success of the repository is likely to depend on cultural factors
- Government set to transform info. Major re-think of how government bodies...
- Magazine article from: Information World Review Caldwell, Tracey December 6, 2005 700+ words
The government has launched a new information strategy focussing on increased digitisation and data sharing between departments. Public sector information professionals will be trained to hone their supplier skills, basing information management around the needs of citizens and businesses, not the
- Resources - Getting inside outsourcing. With outsourcing firmly part of the...
- Magazine article from: Information World Review Caldwell, Tracey April 8, 2005 700+ words
Library and information workers must realise that managing the outsourcing of parts of their department is a legitimate part of their job description. According to the authors of Managing Outsourcing in library and information services, outsourcing is not a new phenomenon and information