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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.

With a general release in mid-2009, Serials Solutions Summon is another early contender in the Web scale discovery space for libraries. Serials Solutions Summon was built from the ground up as a library Web scale discovery service. This chapter provides a brief history and overview of the Summon service, describes the local and remote content associated with the Summon index, and highlights some of the features, functionality, and flexibility associated with the Summon interface. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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.

The article reflects on the roles libraries and librarians play in the society. The author notes how the emergence of computing has heavily impacted library service as supported by research from the Information Institute on public libraries and the Internet. She asserts the fact that the Internet is embedded into the daily lives of people with more and more being accustomed to the use of search engines. The only thing neglected by these people is considering the library as an information resource online.

Despite increased interest in digital and electronic content, libraries continue to manage print materials as a core part of their work. While much of the new opportunities lie in digital [...]