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The e-paper collection of the German National Library (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, DNB) contains about 1.200 titles. These digital versions show the original layout of the printed newspapers and are archived as deposit copies. At the same time, the regional libraries are also entitled to receiving copies from the newspaper publishers, based on the laws of their federal states. After several years of preliminary works, a co-operation between the German National Library and, at the moment, eleven regional libraries from seven federal states has started: since January 2018, the collection of the German National Library is accessible from the premises of the participating regional libraries - of course only the e-papers of the respective federal states or areas are available. Thus, handing in and archiving newspapers twice will be avoided, also at federal state level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since May 2013, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German research community) supports pilot projects dealing with the digitalization of historic newspapers at four libraries in Germany, one of them the Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen (State and university library Bremen). At the same time, the Zeitschriftendatenbank (ZDB, journal data bank) is extended and the DFG viewers for newspapers are adapted. The participating libraries not only enlarge the number of digitalized newspapers significantly, but work out standards of newspaper digitalization which will also be relevant for future digitalization projects. The SuUB Bremen's pilot project aims at digitalizing all German-language newspapers of the 17th century which are more completely availiable here than anywhere else. The newspapers are presented on the digital collections portal of the SuUB Bremen (http://brema.suub.uni-bremen.de/) based on the software Visual Library. This paper represents newspaper digitalization in the context of the DFG's current support policy. Apart from emphasizing the standard and structure forming aims of the pilot projects, the specific orientation and the peculiarities of the Bremen project are the subject of the following report. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents news briefs pertaining to libraries. An online petition at http://www.klassik-stiftung.de/einrichtungen/herzogin-annaamalia-bibliothek/weimarer-appell/ against the conservation and protection of library materials against destruction via fires and flooding is discussed, the publication of an English translation of a Dutch paper on the future of libraries available online at http://www.siob.nl/media/documents/Library_of_ the_Future_12082014_DEF.pdf is announced, and the launch of the "Landesdigitalisierungsprogramm Wissenschaft und Kultur" library material digitization program in Saxony, Germany is also announced.

The IFLA World Library and Information Congress, 79th IFLA General Conference and Assembly, took place 17-23 August 2013 in Singapore. In this paper, colleagues from the German National Library and the Goethe-Institut Jakarta report on the activities of the Preservation and Conservation, Bibliography, Cataloguing, Classification & Indexing, Information Technology and National Libraries Sections as well as the Conference of Directors of National Libraries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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 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 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.