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The article informs on a project "Provenance research in the 'founding stock' of the library of the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation in July 2020-Identification and documentation of Nazi-looted Well" by the Archive of Social Democracy in the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation and funded by the German Lost Art Foundation. It mentions the basis of the project consists on the one hand of the SPD party library, which was rebuilt after the Second World War, and on the other hand of antiquarian acquisitions.

The article reports that as part of the RISM (Répertoire International des Sources Musicales, Serie A/II) collection of music manuscripts in German libraries after 1600 to around 1850, the music manuscripts in the Mainz City Library from the relevant period were cataloged in 2018 by the RISM Germany working group. Topics include considered that the majority of the manuscripts found there from the Mainz City Library are the music manuscripts within the Peter Cornelius Archive.

The article reports that the diocesan library announce the takeover of a valuable stock as the study and central library of the Franciscans. Topics include considered that it contains several historical books published up to 1850 and has already been described as an independent collection in the handbook of historical book holdings.

The article reports that in 1544 the Order of the Society of Jesus, which had been founded a few years earlier, came to Cologne. Topics include considered that in 1556 the city council allowed the order to set up a school, and the former Kukaner burse became the Tricoronatum grammar school, the Jesuit college as there were three high schools in Cologne, the upper classes of which formed the arts faculty of the university.

The article reports that in 2018, the ULB Bonn received several volumes from Belgian private collections that had been missing since the post-war period, including 11 medieval and modern manuscripts, two medieval documents, two historical maps and 39 incunabula from 16th century to 20th century.