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This article reports on the projects of The British Library in London, England as of June 2004 that make material from the library and other collections available to researcher and user around the world. The Turning the Pages project is an exhibit which makes images of some of the world's great treasures available to the public with technology that allows visitors to turn the pages of a digital document on a touch-screen display. Ten manuscripts are featured in the collection. The oldest is the Lindisfarne Gospels, a work that dates to the early eight century. On April 7, 2004, The British Library announced the Endangered Archives Programme, an $18 million project to preserve threatened records around the world. The project hopes to counter threats to historical and cultural records form wars, natural disasters, ignorance and neglect. A new Web site was launched in April 2004 that charts the life and voyages of Captain James Cook. It display material from the British Library, the Captain Cook Birthplace Museum and other archives in England's North East. In May 2004, The British Library announced the Archival Sound Recordings project. This project aims to digitize 12,000 items of sound recordings from The British Library's Sound Archive.

This section offers news briefs on the higher education sector in England. The University of Kent has received almost 80 applications for a three-year doctoral programme in cultural and global criminology. Imperial College London will conduct a research which will examine why some people die within days of a sudden, devastating loss. Britain at Work has made available materials from the Trades Union Congress' library collections at London Metropolitan University.

Focuses on a copy of the First Folio of William Shakespeare's plays available at Dr. Williams's Library in London, England. Key features of the library and its collection; Historical background of the library; Description of the First Folio copy owned by the library.

The author discusses the electronic petition (e-petition) service in support of keeping the British Library free to users. The e-petition obtained 15,077 signatures as of May 11, 2007. The British Library petition was driven by reports of government plans to reduce the library's budget by 7% that would result in shorter opening hours and charges for using the reading rooms. The author mentions the library's French Revolution collection as an example of resources available to the public.

Reports that England-based Oxford University Bodleian Library's historic book collections will be available online through a joint initiative of the university with web search engine Google.

Presents information on the British Library, London, England, focusing on the improvements made to its facilities. How the `New York Times' newspaper described the building; Accomodations of the library; Type of collections available; Background information on the library.

The article presents several international initiatives that are making digital collections from libraries and cultural institutions available to researchers on the Internet. In September 2008, the Organization of American States (OAS) agreed to contribute materials to the U.S. Library of Congress' World Digital Library. The Wellcome Library is partnering with the Bibliotheca Alexandrina to make available its collection of Egyptian and Arabic medical manuscripts. A pilot program, to be finished in late 2009 at the University of Manchester's John Rylands University Library, will digitize medieval texts including early manuscripts of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and John Wyclif's Latin to English translation of the New Testament.