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Most recent updates on the London riots on Monday 8th August 2011 at 10pm in Croydon a historic Victorian building is ablaze still and being raised to the ground. A well established Furniture Warehouse store located in a building that was built originally in the 1800’s has been looted and set on fire. The fire brigade appear to be having no affect on the massive blaze in this Victorian building and the fire seems to be raging unchecked. There seems ...

With the Summon service, Ingram Digital will provide metadata for all the titles in its MyiLibrary e-Book platform. MyiLibrary includes more than 185,000 titles with an additional 5,000 titles being added each month. Ingram Digital is part of a burgeoning movement of publishers and aggregators who are choosing to make their content more discoverable to students and faculty via this service. The Summon service launched worldwide beta testing in January with key content providers ProQuest and Gale, plus other contributors ...

SirsiDynix announced today that Stephen Abram, its Vice President for Innovation, will leave the company to join Gale Cengage as its new Vice President for Strategic Partnerships and Markets. Abram has taken a highly visible role for the company, especially on the speaking circuit. He has also overseen the SirsiDynix Institute, an educational program of the company that provides free Webinars, delivered primarily by individuals outside the company, on a variety of topics related to current library issues. Abram joined ...