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This article presents a paper from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Society) on the goals and development of the program "Cultural Transmission" ("Kulturelle Überlieferung"). The emphasis of the program is the indexing of handwritten notes, literary remains and archive materials, as well as the security and the provision of the historical inventories through digitalization. The creation of a national authentication and retrieval systems are also important.

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This paper presents a scientometric analysis of articles from journals indexed in Web of Science (WoS), subject category 'Information Science & Library Science'. The results confirm the Anglo-American dominance in the library and information science literature (included in WoS) which is even stronger if only information science journals are considered. The two major exceptions are the Scandinavian countries and the field of scientometrics. The visibility of Germany and Austria turned out to be relatively low.

The German Bundestag set up a Study Commission on „Culture in Germany", which presented its final results by December 2007. The areas on which the Commission focused include the tasks and the financing of public libraries. The paper discusses the implementation of the recommendations of the Commission from a political point of view. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the spring convention held in March 2006 by the German Research Society (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft). The position paper "Wissenschaftliche Literaturversorgungs- und Informationssysteme - Schwerpunkte der Förderung bis 2015" was presented in which the topics national literature supply, cultural transmission and electronic publications were discussed.