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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.

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.

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A call for papers is presented for the 6th Congress of the Berufsverbands Information Bibliothek commission to be held in Leipzig, Germany from March 14-17, 2016.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 previews a January 30, 2019 library conference in Erfurt, Germany for continuing education of specialists in public libraries.

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The article presents a preview of a June 8-12, 2015 conference in Bochum, Germany on Arabic for librarians, a June 17-19, 2015 continuing education conference for librarians in Hofgeismar, Germany, and a September 8 and 9, 2015 conference in Wildau, Germany on the use of radio frequency identification systems in libraries.

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The article presents a report on a meeting of representatives of German library consortia, held in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, from November 19-20, 2013, under the auspices of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (German National Library). Topics of discussion included the use of cloud-based library information networks in data processing and exchange, the introduction of the RDA (Resource Description and Access) standard in German-speaking Europe, and the "Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative“ (BIBFRAME), an initiative spearheaded by the U.S. Library of Congress to move bibliographic control into the Semantic Web.

Information on the 64th annual meeting of the German library network held in Konstanz, Germany from April 16-17, 2013 is presented. Several topics including the use of resource description and access (RDA) in German libraries, library information networks, and electronic books are discussed. Other topics mentioned in this article include data networking, library catalog management, and the German digital library Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (DDB).

The article discusses several further training seminars for German librarians and library employees including a seminar on mold control in German libraries to be held in Göttingen, Germany from October 21-22, 2013, a seminar on the use of online social networks in German public libraries to be held in Lüneburg, Germany on October 21, 2013, and a seminar on catalog management in German libraries to be held in Lüneburg, Germany on November 13, 2013.

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."