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The article discusses a November 2008 further education conference at the Carl von Ossietzky Provincial and University Library in Hamburg, Germany on the theme "So That Paper Persists... Experiences With Mass Deacidification." The rationale, methodology, scope, and evaluated results of paper deacidification projects in various German libraries were reviewed.

The article offers information on the Conference of the Jülich Central Library's Research Center to be held in Jülich, Germany on November 5-7, 2012.

The article discusses a European Commission position paper published in February 2007 on scientific information in the digital age. The paper calls for better access to online scientific information in digital form and preservation of research results for future generations. The European Union supports the Open Access initiative and has budgeted € 25 million for research into the maintenance of digital contents.

Information about the symposium "Fragment und Makulatur. Vom Einbandfund zur Internetpräsentation", a symposium on the question whether to restore manuscript fragments and to consider them as missing links, or if they are considered waste paper, held July 2, 2012 in Duisburg, Germany is presented. Other topics mentioned are the conservation of manuscripts, a special treatment of Jewish manuscript fragments, and an overview of recent studies is provided.

The article discusses a May 2007 ruling of the appellate court in Munich, Germany which held that sending copies of scientific journal articles via email violates copyright laws in effect. The alternatives explored are to send paper copies by post or to obtain licensing of the technical articles prior to their electronic transmission.

The article reports on a public relations campaign, started in August 2010, to advertise the book preservation and mass deacidification program at the library of the University of Heidelberg, Germany, which has been funded by the state of Baden-Württemberg since 2005. It describes strategic planning, target audience analysis, marketing concept development, and execution of the campaign, with special emphasis on its Internet-based components.

The article announces that a position paper on library legislation was developed during the membership meeting of the Borromäusverein e.V. on September 13, 2007. In particular, the paper addresses issues pertaining to library standards and legislation. Additionally, the topic of church and library work in Germany is addressed in the paper.

The article discusses the finance of church libraries' conservation of pre-1850 books. Guidelines for the collection and preservation of old books are offered including recommendations for acid-free paper boxes, climate control, and the design of shelves for church archives of old books. Rules for the accession, lending, and circulation of old books are offered.

The article reports on the 2012 conference of the Mikrofilmarchiv der deutschsprachigen Presse (Microfilm Archives of the German-Language Press), held at the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (German National Library, DNB) and focused on microfilm preservation and digitization of newspapers. Topics discussed included microfilming or digitization of print newspapers compared to digital preservation of e-papers, selection criteria for digitization, and reader attitudes to different media formats.

Information about several papers presented at a symposium held from September 28-30, 2011 at the Bremen City Library, in Germany, sponsored by book distributor Missing Link, on the subject of electronic books (e-books) is presented . Topics include e-books in the city library, strategic library planning relating to e-books, and publishing practices related to e-books.

Information is presented about several papers presented at the Digital Preservation Summit 2011, held on October 19-20, 2011, in Hamburg, Germany. Topics include predictions regarding the digitization of scientific publications by the year 2020, methods of employing digitization to secure long-term archiving, and the exchange of professional experiences about digital archiving.

The article reports on the annual meeting of the Internationale Buchwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft (International Society for Book Studies, IBG), held at the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel, Germany, on October 26-27, 2010. Papers presented revolved around the future of books and libraries in an age of increasing reliance on digital and electronic information resources distributed over the Internet.

The article discusses a paper entitled "Creative Content in a European Digital Single Market" that proposes a number of solutions toward a unified European policy on copyrights and digital reproduction rights for libraries. The German Library Association e.V., however, expressed regret on the report's strong focus on the economic interests of several market participants rather than on the consuming public readership.

This article contains a call for papers and a pre-meeting announcement for the 32nd annual conference of the labor association of special libraries, the Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Spezialbibliotheken (ASpB), which will take place in Karlsruhe, Germany.

An academic paper is presented which discusses a study of information-search behavior in high school and university students. Information overload and its effects on students with poor information literacy was one topic addressed in the study. The empirical study's results show that few students make an effort to broaden research methods or to reflect critically on their own searching procedures and findings.

The article reports on a May 2007 Swedish National Library conference, or Think Tank as it was called, on the role of the book as artifact and the value of the printed versus digital material. A report on the Google digitalization project at the University of Michigan was presented. Other talks addressed paper book preservation and warehousing, the growth of illiteracy, and the anarchy of the Internet.

The article discusses the library processing of 12 cubic meters of German newspapers returned in February 2003 from the the Russian state library archives to Berlin, Germany. The contents are being stored in Allegro and SQL databases and the papers returned to those publishers still in existence. The effort is known as "Project Newspaper Portal."

The article presents a call for papers for a September 19-23, 2006 library law and economics conference in Bregenz, Austria, a preview of an April 4-5, 2006 library conference on academic publishing is offered, and a preview of an April 25, 2006 conference in Hannover, Germany on master's degree programs in information and knowledge management.

The article discusses the history of the Bibliographie Nationale Française (BNF), the French National Library, from its foundation in 1811 under Napoleon, its expansion to other subjects beside bibliography after the World War II, and to its modern online databases. The library is the oldest national bibliography in the world. Other topics mentioned are new cooperation with other libraries, the use of microfiche to reduce paper costs, and the goal to preserve books as cultural heritage.

The article reviews the summary contents of the library website www.worldcat.org, which contains articles, papers, and announcements from 1995-2008 issues of "Bibliothekswesen" on librarianship. The database presents article titles, contents, and evaluations of the periodical articles which are said by the author to be somewhat uneven.

The article discusses a new paper by the Corporate Cooperative Composite Applications Work Group on faster handling of E-book metadata and improved homogeneity in the network and local catalogs. The Work Group's findings are the result of an analysis of the experiences of German National Library in the mechanized handling of E-book metadata.

The article focuses on a conference held by the working group "BID AG Bibliothek 2012" on October 5, 2007 in Bremen, Germany in which the social and political role of libraries was discussed. Additionally, standards and laws for libraries in Germany were considered. The working group resolved to draft a strategy paper that will focus on "Bibliothek 2007."