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The article discusses the highlights of the 75th World Library and Information Congress held by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions in Milan, Italy in August 2009. Particular focus is given on creating libraries as cultural heritage. Participants included presenters from Malaysia, New Zealand and Uganda, among others. Other topics discussed included advocacy for open access and digitization efforts to preserve archives. The congress also had poster presentations.

The article offers information related to library and books. Topics include the opinion of Court of Justice of the European Union's (CJEU) advocate general Maciej Szpunar on the case about the lending rights of electronic books, a pilot deal between Bibsam university and publisher Springer Nature to allow researchers with access on research papers based on Open Access (OA), and the library building in Bandung, Indonesia made of recycled plastic ice cream buckets.

This article highlights the 1989 conference of EUSIDIC, the European Association of Information Services, held from October 16-19, 1989 in Italy. Some 175 information producers and users gathered at the conference. The conference carried the theme Towards 1993--Piccolo Mondo. A small world it is indeed, as practically every country in western Europe was represented at the conference, although few of the papers presented actually addressed the small world theme. Marino Saksida, in his talk entitled the Business of Online Information: Relationship Between Pricing Methods, Market Size, and Market Penetration, said that online information has ceased long ago to be an experiment and that market awareness has developed to a point where the pricing methods currently employed are a serious obstacle to further market penetration.

The article discusses various issues related to the information industry as of September 2015. Topics covered include the British Library-hosted event on the theft, retrieval and sale of rare books, maps and manuscripts in London, England, the database of stolen books created by the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB), and the European Union (EU) copyright reform.