2010 Press Releases
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Major competition launched to find UK's best management writers
March 04
A nationwide search began today to find the UK's best management books with the launch of the inaugural Management Book of the Year competition.
British Library Joins Campaign to Get British Business Online
February 25
Initiative designed to help London's SMEs create their first websites easily and for free.
Digital afterlife for UK websites...
February 25
British Library's officially launches the UK Web Archive, offering access in perpetuity to thousands of UK websites for generations of researchers...
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Chopin: The Romantic Refugee
February 23
British Library sheds new light on the life of Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin from Poland to Britain in a new exhibition to mark the 200th anniversary of his birth.
Re-Kindle your love of forgotten 19th century classics
February 23
Historic new deal by the British Library and Amazon to make 65,000 largely out-of-print 19th Century titles available on Amazon via CreateSpace's Print on-Demand...
An Oral History of British Science
February 23
The voices, memories and experiences of hundreds of British scientists are being captured by a major new initiative at the British Library.
British Library Business & IP Centre helps enterprising Londoners increase turnover by £32 million
February 18
Launched today, a new report – 'Supporting Economic Growth 2007 - 2009' – reveals the British Library Business & IP Centre's outstanding success in providing the capital's aspiring entrepreneurs with both the inspiration and confidence to take on the economic downturn.
Find Alice in British Library Wonderland
February 12
The British Library, home to the original manuscript of Alice's Adventures Under Ground, and Disney team up to host a very special evening for the public.
Poetry Pamphlets: The Staple Diet You Can Devour Between Meals
February 04
The British Library presents the second year of The Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets, in partnership with the Poetry Book Society and with the generous support of the Michael Marks Charitable Trust.
National institutions call for removal of major barrier to mass digitisation
February 03
Proposed amendments to the Orphan Works Clause 42 (works with no known owner) of the Digital Economy Bill will pose one of the greatest barriers to mass digitisation of content by the UK’s leading national institutions.
Digital Exploration from Pole to pixel
February 03
Digital versions of legendary British polar explorer Captain Scott’s last three diaries launched online by the British Library...
First virtual history timeline opens up new world for students and teachers
January 28
New interactive history timeline developed by British Library allows students and teachers to explore collection items chronologically for the first time.
Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda and Art
January 26
100 greatest maps in the world to go on display in the British Library's major summer exhibition...
Preserving our digital heritage
January 22
Digital Preservation Coalition and British Library Preservation Advisory Centre join forces to build digital preservation skills
Secretary of State's behind-the-scenes look at the Library
January 22
Ben Bradshaw MP, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, tours state-of-the-art digitisation facility at the British Library at Boston Spa
A vision for the academic library and information services of the future
January 22
Exploring the challenges faced by higher education, libraries and information services to facilitate strategic planning.
Growth in UK's postgraduate sector driven by overseas students
January 20
Major study of UK postgraduate landscape focuses on the dominant shifts in trends of postgraduate education since 2004.
A call for joined-up services to help businesses out of recession
January 19
Sharing business information more effectively, particularly through colleges, universities and major reference libraries, could help recession-hit companies out of crisis and stimulate innovation, according to a JISC report undertaken by the British Library Research Service.
British Library investigates world's hunger for science
January 15
'GM Crops and Food Security: Curing the World's Growing Pains'
21 January 2010, 18:00 – 20:30 – British Library, 96 Euston Road, London.
Cambridge Imaging Systems help build British Library Moving Image Archive
January 15
A highly prestigious contract to supply the British Library with an advanced digital archive management system, known as Box of Broadcasts or simply ‘BoB', has been secured by Cambridge Imaging Systems.
Full speed ahead for UKRR as membership doubles
January 12
The UK Research Reserve (UKRR – www.ukrr.ac.uk) is pleased to welcome 14 new Higher Education Institutions as members, taking its final membership to 29.
Innovative new web interface improves access to UK's largest free online life sciences resource http://beta.ukpmc.ac.uk
January 11
Helping researchers access and exploit over 1.7 million full-text, peer reviewed biomedical research articles and over 19 million other life science research papers, on 12 January the British Library will showcase a whole range of new search and data mining tools designed to unlock the scientific knowledge held by UK PubMed Central.
'Lost in translation' - Tracing the impact of cancer research from discovery to public policy
January 08
The British Library and the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) host half day conference for stakeholders from across the research spectrum to assess the challenges in translating research findings into clinical practice.