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DRM and Standards
White Paper Well, at the front of the list of who are organizations such as the British Library (and there aren't many organizations with their responsibility for the preservation of literature and cultural heritage). [01 Apr 2009]
Jet packs, army tech and Victorian gadgets
Photo The British Library in London is playing host to an exhibition of gadgets and technology from the Victorian era and early 20th century. Sci-fi staple - the jet pack - finally made its way into reality as... [02 Sep 2008]
Photos: What gadgets were the Victorians using?
Photo The British Library in London is playing host to an exhibition of gadgets and technology from the Victorian era and early 20th century. One of the British Library team... [14 Aug 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... [29 Apr 2008]
Profile: Nottingham Building Society head of IT Jack Cutts
Comment We put in blade servers, we put in SANs, we put in a virtual tape library (VTL). He began his career as an analyst and programmer almost 20 years ago at British Steel. Jack Cutts is a name to conjure with. [11 Mar 2008]
Tech pros up in arms over tax change
News 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. The director general of the Confederation of... [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... [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... [27 Sep 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... [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... [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... [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... [30 Jan 2007]
Leader: The CIO Agenda for 2007
Leader New tech priorities this year include IT infrastructure library for better project management and governance and service-oriented architecture (SOA). Thanks to those who gave their time to take part in this year's CIO... [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,... [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... [06 Dec 2006]