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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.