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The library of the future is a digital one, says Toby Bainton, and digitisation is at the forefront of ensuring that important scholarly resources are made more widely available and at the same time of presenting a vision for academic libraries in a digital age.

A new report, commissioned by Jisc and The British Library, counters the common assumption that the 'Google Generation' - young people born or brought up in the internet age - is the most adept at using the web.

The 'Mobiles Enhancing Learning and Support' e-Learning project has been being run from The University of Wolverhampton by John Traxler, who recently spoke about the potential and possibilities of mobile learning at the recent Online Educa conference in Berlin.

In November 2007 Jisc and their international partnership company SURF had a large promotional stand at the Online Educa conference in Berlin.

Listening to what learners themselves have to say about their learning is becoming more and more important to ensuring that they have access to the services and the technologies they need for their studies, their work and social lives.

The Jisc e-Leaning team have held two online conferences which have brought together a selection of key innovators within e-Learning to discuss the current and future impact of using technology to support learning and teaching.

A recent European digitisation conference explored some important challenges facing national and university libraries across the continent as they attempt to join together to deliver a 'European Digital Library'.

Procuring and developing IT systems which can meet the needs of colleges and universities requires a full consideration of open source software.

Go-Geo! is a portal which brings together a number of key geographically related resources. Robin Smith, an analyst at the University of Sheffield and a regular user of the service, talks to Philip Pothen for Inform Plus about how important changes to Go-Geo!

Alice Gugan talks to Roy Kalawsky, Director of the Advanced VR Research Centre at Loughborough University, about the role visualisation plays in displaying today’s research information, and specifically about the work of the UK National Visualisation network Viz