The Public Lending Right (PLR) is to be run by the British Library, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has announced.

The day-to-day running of the scheme is to stay with the existing PLR operation in Stockton-on-Tees, with staff becoming employees of the British Library from 1st October when the changeover takes place...

One-time "The Late Show" editor Roly Keating has been appointed as the new chief executive of the British Library, replacing Dame Lynne Brindley.

Keating is director of archive content at the BBC, and a former controller of BBC Two and BBC Four. He will take up his new role on 12 September 2012.

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Elsevier and Taylor & Francis have both signed agreements with the British Library which aim to improve the speed of delivery of documents to non-commercial readers abroad.

The agreement requires end-users and not-for-profit libraries to monitor whether articles are being used commercially or non-commercially, with the articles...

The British Library says it is "providing users with the choice of an alternative method of obtaining a title if, for some reason, it is not available in the Library's Reading Rooms". But users have always had an alternative method: it is called going to a bookshop.

Are the British Library's directors unaware that...