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The article discusses Czech- and German-language popular Christian literature published in Bohemia, Czech Republic, during the 18th and 19th centuries in order to chart the history of popular religious beliefs and practice by both Catholics and Protestants. The authors reflect on the value of such manuscripts and pamphlets as sources for religious history and describe the collections available in libraries in the Czech Republic. Topics discussed include the role of prayerbooks, for example by Capuchin monk Martin von Cochem, Bavarian government official Karl Eckart von Eckartshausen, and the anonymous book "Obět' před Bohem," for the development of personal Catholic religious identities, methods of copying the texts, and differences between Catholic and Protestant texts.

This article contains information about the Stanford University library in California and the Hoover Institution. The author presents biographical data about U.S. President Herbert Hoover and the formation of a library collection with materials from World War I. Information is presented about the history of the Stanford library and the Hoover Institution. The author discusses details about the library collection available at the Hoover Institution, including financial aspects.

The article discusses acquisitions and collection development at French university libraries from 1988 to 2003. Statistics on the collections of books, journals, and databases available at French universities are offered, the finance of French academic libraries is examined, and regional differences in the collections of French academic libraries inside and outside of Paris, France are compared.

The article discusses a European Union (EU) project to integrate the digitalized cultural assets of the EU countries and to simplify access to those resources. Each participating country supplies its own portal to its digitized objects and collections in archives, libraries, and museums. Those portals in turn will be available through a common, multilingual portal in the summer of 2008 under the project MICHAEL Plus (Multilingual Inventory of Cultural Heritage in Europe).

The article announces that the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, the Austrian national library, published its complete book collection online available for all its users.