The European Union’s (EU’s) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) takes effect as of May 25, 2018, and is likely to have a significant impact on the way libraries around the globe manage personal data.

This report examines the perspectives of both providers and users of library services from Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and the United Kingdom to decode the value of online library spaces and digital services from the users’ perspective while noting their behaviour and preferences as they interact with their libraries and use their resources.

Ever thought about why it is vital that organisations like APO exist? This article examines digital government information preservation initiatives in the United States.

Although librarians initially hoped institutional repositories (IRs) would grow through researcher self-archiving, practice shows that growth is much more likely through library-directed deposit. Libraries must then find efficient ways to ingest material into their IR to ensure growth and relevance.

This article examines the movement toward sophisticated library services, which requires amending the current practice of subject librarian specialisation, which has for decades been the mainstay of academic librarianship in South Africa and many other countries in both the global south and north.