"New in 2008, the Mass Digitization Collaborative offers PALINET members the capability to contribute important historical and archival materials for digitization as part of our regional digital collection. Participation in the Collaborative makes digitization affordable and easy for PALINET members. PALINET staff facilitate the process by developing a collaborative collection development policy, procedures, standards, and workflows and by providing support services to project participants."

"NISO's Shared E-Resource Understanding (SERU) Working Group has posted its first public draft best practices document on its Web site. This document, "The SERU Approach to E-Resource Subscriptions: Framework for Development and Use of SERU," presents a shared set of understandings to which publishers and libraries can point when negotiating the sale of electronic content. The framework offers publishers and libraries a solution to the often-burdensome process of bilateral negotiation of a formal license agreement by allowing the sale of e-resources without licenses if both parties feel their perception of risk has been adequately addressed by current law and developing norms of behavior."

Verde, the Ex Libris electronic management system

SFX, the link server from Ex Libris, delivers powerful linking services in the scholarly information environment. SFX is also a key component in the management of electronic resources in a library.