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The ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics is taking over the project management for the establishment of a digital repository called "Repository for Policy Documents" (REPOD). The goal is to create an information and consulting infrastructure for politics and society by the end of 2023, which enables targeted research of consulting documents. The REPOD will be used by various political and social actors and ensure consistent quality assurance. The ZBW is building a digital information infrastructure and developing a unified metadata schema for easy discoverability and reusability of policy papers. The ZBW has prepared a unique data collection and moved it to the ZBW Journal Data Archive to make it accessible for research in accordance with FAIR Open Data principles. The data is now FAIR-compliant, meaning it has a DOI, extensive metadata, and is linked to the corresponding publication. The Journal of Applied Econometrics, its publisher Wiley, and the ZBW have started a cooperation to integrate data archives of economic scientific journals. The Badische State Library has opened a new learning workshop that offers a flexibly furnished learning landscape with interactive technology and events on various topics. [Extracted from the article]

Besides printed books, libraries also have e-books, e-papers and digital services such as e-learning courseware and audio books on offer. Last year's cooperation agreement between two important e-media providers, the digital reader circle sharemagazines and divibib GmbH, operator of the widely used online lending portals Onleihe, makes it much easier to complement the existing library portfolios with those digital services. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Different suppliers offer libraries the possibility of e-lending: Library users can 'borrow' e-books, e-music or e-papers. Similarly to the traditional borrowing of print media the users can now download a book for a certain loan period, place a hold on an e-book etc. The following article illustrates the problems of e-lending regarding minor users. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Changes taking place in the modern world related to the digital revolution also affect the library. Libraries should exist in the virtual space in order to promote their services in social networks. Responding to the needs of modern users, the Voivodeship Public Library in Opole continually expands and enhances the range of internet services and web 2.0 activities. The paper presents library web portals and online services in Poland using the example of the Voidvodeship Public Library in Opole. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The following paper presents a Moodle study space for the introduction to the specialized scientific literature research, developed at the university Duisburg-Essen. The Blended-Learning project was developed and given practical application by the expert of the university library, in co-operation with specialists of the faculty for Anglophone studies. Apart from the co-operative execution, the curricular integration of the library competence certificate into the English studies is a special feature of the online course. Concept, contents und organizational structure are explained below. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Against the backdrop of the digital change the following article sums up prominent papers and discussions of the 1980s related to library policy. It shows how structures and mentalities criticized back then still present problems and how they influence the role of libraries in digital information environments up to this day. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]