American Library Association (ALA) President Courtney Young and Barbara Lison, a representative of the German library association Bibliothek & Information Deutschland (BID), signed an agreement on ...

The Bavarian State Library, one of the biggest libraries in the German-speaking world, has agreed to participate in Google Inc.'s project to scan books from the world's great collections. By Reuters, ...

For someone writing under the name Robert Basic, it seemed too good to be true. “My parents are never going to believe I’m going to be catalogued by the German national library,” the blogger wrote ...

WEIMAR, GERMANY — The restoration of Germany’s famed Anna Amalia Library, gutted by fire three years ago, has been completed, and the building will reopen next week, officials said Thursday. The $18.2 ...

Philipp Hainhofer’s Das Große Stammbuch, signed by influential 17th-century Europeans, acquired by Herzog August Bibliothek Almost 400 years after Augustus the Younger tried and failed to buy the ...

The three-year partnership between the American Library Association (ALA) and Bibliothek und Information Deutschland (BID) kicked off at the 6th Library Congress in Leipzig, Germany, March 14–17. Then ...

The first instalment of books for the new German library, to be known as the "Villard Library," in honor of its founder, has arrived and the books are now on the shelves in Sever 4. Dr. Francke while ...

In Germany, information is considered a significant factor in economic and social progress. Information-sharing establishments, which include libraries, play one of the central roles in this context.

PARIS, MAY 10. Today, the anniversary of the Nazis' ceremonial burning of books outside the Opera House in Berlin, the "German Library of Burnt Books" was opened at 65, Boulevard Arago, Paris. The ...

A German library has purchased a 400-year-old album containing illustrations and inscriptions from European emperors, kings, and princes for €2.8m. The album originally belonged to Philipp Hainhofer ...