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RSS british libraryTapping Into the Power of ITIL to Improve the Quality of IT Service
White Paper The ignition of this development, which rapidly gained approval in Europe and has since reached the United States, was the publication of the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) by the British government agency now known as the Office of Government... [03 Jul 2008]
New president takes the reins at Socitm
News Newham Borough Council's CIO was confirmed in the role at the society's AGM held at the British Library. Richard Steel has been named president of the Society of Information Technology Management (Socitm), the professional association for public... [29 Apr 2008]
Profile: Nottingham Building Society head of IT Jack Cutts
Comment He began his career as an analyst and programmer almost 20 years ago at British Steel. We put in blade servers, we put in SANs, we put in a virtual tape library (VTL). Jack Cutts is a name to conjure with. [11 Mar 2008]
Tech pros up in arms over tax change
News The director general of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has also raised concerns. A Facebook group against the tax change, which was started by Doug Richard of business information company Library House, has grown to more than 200 members. [15 Oct 2007]
Photos of the month - September 2007
Photo This is one of the 100,000 books the British Library is planning to digitise over the next two years being scanned in the digitisation studio. The Library is working with imaging company Content Conversion Specialists and Microsoft on a mass... [27 Sep 2007]
Photos: Inside the British Library's digital books project
Photo The British Library is working with Microsoft and imaging company Content Conversion Specialists (CCS) on a massive book digitisation project. Over a period of two years, around 100,000 books from the British Library's nineteenth century literature... [27 Sep 2007]
assyst Enterprise at the British Library Software Solution & Implementation Excellence
White Paper The British Library was established in 1973 by Act of Parliament as the national centre for reference study, bibliographic and other library and information services for science, technology and the humanities. [03 Aug 2007]
The Skinny on ITIL
White Paper ITIL (the Information Technology Infrastructure Library) is, after all, a collection of best practices first developed by the British government almost 20 years ago. But ITIL is rapidly gaining ground as an IT governance model in U.S.businesses. [04 Jul 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 02.02.07
Round-Up Also attending the launch were indie-pop band The Feeling who played a few tunes for the thronging crowd within the British Library. Where to begin this week? How about with the biggest launch from Microsoft in five years? [02 Feb 2007]
Photos of the month - January 2007
Photo Microsoft's long-awaited Vista operating system finally got its consumer launch in London with Bill Gates there for the unveiling, in an event at the British Library. With Vista's commercial launch fast approaching, Microsoft unveiled the first new... [31 Jan 2007]
Photos: Bill Gates unveils Vista
Photo The company's chairman Bill Gates (above) was at hand for the unveiling, in an event at the British Library. Pop band The Feeling added a bit of glamour to the launch, playing to the journalists and Microsoft partners inside the British Library... [31 Jan 2007]
Vista unravels the Da Vinci codex
News Speaking at the launch, which was held at the British Library in London, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said: "This is a special occasion, we've worked hard to build a new software platform and we are so excited to see what people will do with it. [30 Jan 2007]
Leader: The CIO Agenda for 2007
Leader Thanks to those who gave their time to take part in this year's CIO Agenda survey, including: Russell Altendorff, IT director, London Business School; Mark Beattie, head of IT, LondonWaste; Nicholas Bellenberg, IT director, Hachette Filipacchi UK... [17 Jan 2007]
"Digital black hole" threatens your documents
News The UK organisations taking part are the British Library and Cambridge-based Microsoft Research Limited. Adam Farquhar, head of e-architecture at the British Library, said that as past and current computer hardware and software become obsolete... [15 Dec 2006]
Microsoft launches book search beta
News Microsoft has restricted the beta release of Live Search Books to only include non-copyright books scanned from the collections of the British Library, the University of California and the University of Toronto. [06 Dec 2006]
