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The ZLB Topic Room is considered as a response to the changing information and library world. In order to adapt current subjects in a modern and appropriate way, analogue and digital offers are connected, as by now the rule in communicating information is: no topicality without digital contents. One result is the Topic Room app. At the same time, the Topic Room serves as experimental space for library formats, a lively place in the library and starting-point of numerous cultural co-operations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses development of TAXsim, a public domain program, that can be freely copied and distributed, but not changed or sold, as a tool of the digitization. Topics also mentioned include application software, German politics concerning digitization and the internet, and copyright issues with digital media.