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The article discusses that the Irish Education Alliance seeking to remove teen LGBTQ+ books from public libraries. It further discusses that the Local Government Management Agency's (LGMA) Libraries Development unit advises central and local government on library matters; the United Nations sustainable development goals (SDGs); and also mentions that Bloomsbury Publishing has launched a pilot scheme to help authors publish works on an open access (OA) basis.

The article highlights the author's favorite open search tools for finding open arts and humanities content. Topics discussed include the JURN search tool, which discovers the full text of open journals in the arts and humanities; the sister tool of JURN called GRAFT, which searches the world's academic repositories, and the extremely poor semantic interpretation of queries resulting in subsequent slowing down of Paperity, a multidisciplinary aggregator of OA journals and papers.

The article reports that the European Commission's Open Access (OA) policy, funded by the European Union (EU), is improvements "Monitoring the Open Access Policy of Horizon 2020" examines the OA progress of the Horizon 2020 program for scientific research and innovation. Topics include the European Commission's leadership in the Open Science policy has paid off Compliance has steadily increased; and European Commission collaborating closely with funding agencies across Europe.

The article focuses on the Overview of 2020," from the Federation of European Publishers (FEP) paints a mixed picture. Topics discussed include academic libraries may also be paying the cost of COVID-19, according to some Grate Britain librarians who are angry at steep rises in the prices of academic ebook; and the views of Sabine Verheyen, chairwoman of the European Parliament's culture and education committee, on it.

The article discusses about Addressing the Gender Pay Gap at the British Library. Topics include the British library said in a press release that it remains committed to eliminating its gender pay gap; when female employees earned an average of 96 percent for every pound paid to men; and CEO Roly Keating who issued his own statement on the gender pay gap reporting, asserts that the library is taking various step to make gender pay equality a reality by 2023.

The article offers information on the Research Applications in Information and Library Studies (RAILS) conference held from December 6-8, 2016 in Wellington, New Zealand. The conference featured several presentation on topics including diversity pertains to librarianship and the information industry, majority liberal librarian perspectives which promote tolerance and librarian has an opportunity perhaps even an obligation.

The article focuses on the implication of the Brexit also known as the withdrawal of Great Britain from its membership with the European Union (EU), on the country's political system. Topics include the resignation of the country's Prime Minister David Cameron which resulted to the changes in the government, the appointment of the new prime minister Theresa May who are in action of negotiating the position of Brexit with the EU, and the economic contribution of science in the country.

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 global news briefs related to libraries, as of January 2017. Natalya Sharina, director of the Library of Ukrainian Literature in Moscow, has been charged with incitement of hatred, based on allegations of stocking anti-Russian literature. European Space Agency (ESA) has partnered with Vatican Apostolic Library digitizing and managing some of the library's archive. British Library's (BL) program to digitize its collection of early Bengali texts has been expanded.

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 information related to online copyright around the world. Topics include a proposed bill in Ukraine which aims to address online copyright violations, collaboration between archive and library systems specialist ProQuest and St. Andrews University in Scotland, and celebration of the life and works of Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes.

This section offers international news briefs on the information services sector as of March 2016. It informs about the copyright lawsuit facing French academic Olivier Ertzscheid and French parliamentarian Isabelle Attard relating to their publication of the diary of German-born diarist and writer Ann Frank online. It reports the house arrest of librarian Natalia Sharina, and the British Library's celebration of the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare.

The article reports on the Weston Library where digitization is at the center of scholarship, research and preservation. The Weston Library is part of the Bodlleian Libraries at the University of Oxford where archivists will discover new ways to preserve digital materials. Lucie Burgess, the Bodleian's associate director for digital libraries, says the digital archivists face challenges daily with respect to the preservation of digital materials such as old floppy disks which are deteriorating.

The article discusses the harmonization of copyright in the European Union (EU). It is said that copyright law in the EU has remained national law and that the organization European Copyright Society (ECS) wants to adopt one copyright law for all instead of just harmonizing. Topics include challenges to developing and implementing a unified copyright law, the differences between copyrights, patents and registered trade marks, and digitization of the British Library's sound archive.