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During the International Conferences on Digital Libraries, several experts felt the need for a primary research journal in the field of digital libraries which will not only cover the knowledge network of global digital library experts, but also project Indian research on digital libraries, technologies and case studies. Thus, the journal World Digital Libraries (WDL) started in 2008. This paper describes the genesis of the WDL, coverage in terms of themes, contribution of authors, subscription and future projections of WDL. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on a conference on scholarly electronic publishing and digital libraries in the humanities and social sciences, held in Berlin, Germany, from October 8-9, 2013. Several case studies were discussed, including the websites "Acta pacis Westphalicae," available at http://www.pax-westphalica.de, "Deutsches Textarchiv“ (DTA), available at http://www.deutschestextarchiv.de, and "Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien" (TITUS), available at http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/indexd.htm.

The article presents a report from a January 18-19, 2013 conference in Trier, Germany on the reconstruction of libraries of the Middle Ages using digital methods. Topics of presentations given included the reconstruction of the library of the Imperial Abbey of Corvey, the dating of Middle Ages handwriting found in the Herzog August Bibliothek library, and data processing and metadata standards used in the digitization of archival materials.

A report is offered from an October 10-12, 2011 librarians and library science conference in Łódź, Poland on digital libraries in Germany and Poland. Topics of presentations given included German literary creations written in Łódź, the history of the Łódź ghetto in World War II, and the problem of copyright protection in digital libraries.

Information about the topics discussed at the Canadian Association of Music Libraries held October 23, 2009 in Ottawa, Ontario is presented. Participants discussed music library issues. They also tackled the digitization issues and projects including the new digital audio delivery service and the Resource Description and Access (RDA).

A calendar of German events related to library science from July - December 2009 lists such meeting themes as digital libraries, librarian certification, new juvenile books, and blog competencies.

Information about several papers discussed at the forum by the Committee on Chinese Materials on Chinese electronic content is presented. Topics includes access to Chinese Wanfang databases, and services, Chinese dissertations databases, and OCLC's global strategy, and Chinese e-content. The forum features several presenters including Danny Liu of Wanfang Data, Newman Ang of Tsinghua Tongfang, and Jason Han of Superstar Digital Library.

The article offers information on the 9th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries that was held in Kyoto University, Japan in November 27-30, 2006. The conference consisted of presentations of papers on digital libraries, keynote speeches, and panel discussions. The keynote speakers include Makoto Nagao, Jun Adachi, and Daniel Clancy.

The article discusses a meeting on digital libraries that was sponsored by the Asian Library Association and Indian Institute of Management (IIM) that was held in IIM, Indore from April 14-16, 2016.

The article offers information for conferences on digital libraries including the Digital Book World conference to be held at New York City from March 7 to 9, 2016 and the JCDL 2016: Big Libraries, Big Data, Big Innovation conference to be held at Newark, New Jersey from June 19 to 23, 2016.

A calendar of events related to digital libraries in 2014 is presented including the IFLA World Library and Information Congress in Lyon, France from August 16-22, the 10th International Conference on Knowledge Management in Antalya, Turkey from November 24-26, and the International Conference on the Convergence of Libraries, Archives and Museums (ICLAM) in New Delhi, India from November 27-29.

A calendar of events related to digital libraries for 2014 is presented which includes the Digital Book World Conference & Expo, the Third International Conference on E-Learning and E-Technologies in Education, and the 3rd Spanish Conference on Information Retrieval.

The article announces that a digital library conference will be held in Tilburg, the Netherlands, from July 28, 2009 to August 5, 2009.

A calendar of events related to digital library in 2015 is presented including International Library Conference on What’s Next in Libraries? Trends, Space, and Partnerships, 10th International Digital Curation Conference, and 4th International Conference of Asian Special Libraries (ICoASL 2015).

Presents the Global Communications Newsletter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Information about the meeting of the Working Group on the International Association of Music Libraries Toolbox of the association's Public Libraries Branch held in July 2005 in Warsaw, Poland is presented. Instructions on the eGroupWare program was given by Gabriele Gamba, while Christel Rosenborg agreed to act as webmaster.