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The article offers information on the development of Audiobook-on-Ipods program in the U.S. It states that the Research Library at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) established the program using leadership and management audiobooks. It describes audiobooks as digital sound recordings of books that can read aloud and have become widely used over the past few years. It explores the inclusion of audiobooks in the library's collections, and investigates the best way to make the audiobooks available for customers.

Reports that the Old Dominion University (ODU) Library's Special Collections are available to researchers. Types of resource materials available from the library; Components of the manuscript collections; Background information on the library.

The author reports that the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) is starting a new program to allow libraries to combine the cooperative power with other OCLC members. This is possible through the ability to customize the library website www.WorldCat.org. This system will allow libraries to search the website and have the results be presented by what the program believes would be the most accessible by the library patron, such as material available at the home library, collections shared in a consortium and also open access collections.

This article reports that a consortium of libraries at five New York State independent colleges and universities have been awarded a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support development of a resource-sharing system for academic libraries throughout the state. The project, called the ConnectNY, allows the institutions to share library holdings, making the collections of all five readily available to students, faculty and staff.

Focuses on the Council on Library and Information Resources' (CLIR) publication of reports examining challenges involved in building coherent digital library collections that complement other formats. `Selection and Presentation of Commercially Available Electronic Resources Issues and Practices,' by Timothy D. Jewell; `Building and Sustaining Digital Collections: Models for Libraries and Museums'; `Strategies for Building Digitized Collections,' by Abby Smith.

States that the papers of Hermine Dalkowitz Tobolowsky are available at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library at Texas Tech University. Reference to Tobolowsky's death in 1995; Tobolowsky's contribution to the Texas Equal Rights Amendment.

Presents news briefs related to libraries in Europe as of June 2006. Political leaders who supported France's call for the creation of a digital library; Response of French National Library President Jean-Noël Jeanneney to the announcement of Google that it would make books from the collections of major research libraries available online.