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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 the German writer Thomas Mann collection at the Düsseldorf university and provincial library. The contents of the collection are summarized, and efforts to make the material available on the Internet are described. The online catalogue address is provided and search possibilities described.

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