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The article offers world news briefs related to digital information as of October 2016. Topics include plan of the European Union to introduce value-added tax on electronic books to harmonize print and ebook rates; the National Library of Israel's plan to acquire papers of author Franz Kafka after the country's Supreme Court ruling that manuscripts are the property of the Library; and digitization of author William Shakespeare's Globe archive in London, England by publisher Adam Matthew.

The article offers product news brief as of September 2017. ShareLaTeX and Overleaf that are bringing their teams and services together to develop tools for collaborative writing, OCLC launched Digby and a mobile app for student library workers that will be part of WorldShare Management Services.

The article discusses about the methods like overdue fines, e-mail reminders, freezing the library membership applied in Sydney, Australia to encourage borrowers to return the overdue library books. Topics discussed include increase in library fines in the country, reminding borrowers through electronic mail and increase in print book sales in Great Britain.

The article offers information on European Parliament decisions to end geo-blocking might impact ebook businesses of European booksellers. Topics discussed include e-books carries high value-added tax rate than hard-copy books; the views of Raegan MacDonald, Mozilla's senior policy manager, on digital market; and digital camera technology.

The article evaluates several products that can be used by digital libraries including the Liebert Open Access from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.; Dimensions for Publishers, a global grants database from ÜberResearch; and the free contentsharing initiative SharedIt from Springer Nature.

The article presents the negotiations taken place between consortium of German universities, research institutes named Project DEAL and academic libraries and publishing institution Elsevier and also between LIBER (Association of European Research Libraries) and publishers. Project DEAL wants open access to all journals on a fair pricing and Elsevier is negotiating the terms. Liber has offered five points for OA (Open Access) which includes license, no price increase, and transparency.

The article offers news briefs related to global information technology industry including launch of a website RightsStatements.org by Digital Public Library of America; work of Thomson Reuters with the New Partnership for Africa' Development; and a Pew Research Center's report on librarians.