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A number of positions at the European Library are being advertised, including General Project Manager, Interoperability Manager, and Junior Technical Site Developer.

NISO has received funding from the Institute for Library and Museum Services to update its Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections. According to the lastest issue of NISO Newsline, the new version will "improve coverage of non-text formats, international initiatives, digital preservation, Web 2.0 concepts, and several other areas of interest".

The Open Archive Initiative's Object Reuse and Exchange working group has released Compound Information Objects: An OAI-ORE Perspective, which describes their "interoperability layer that is a standardized means for publishing [...] repository-specific and application-specific implementations of compound objects to the web." This is the first major technical document from the OAI-ORE group.

The European Library has released its Handbook to the general public. This publication "is a help guide that allows national libraries to input their collections into The European Library portal" but it contains useful information for others who are creating similar guidelines.