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, ...

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 ...

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 land of Friedrich Nietzsche, Johann Wolfgang Goethe and Michael Ende sees its libraries and their offerings being showcased annually to young and old alike. Though 21st century youngsters may be ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rare manuscripts thought to have been looted from Bonn library by Belgian soldiers Hundreds of priceless manuscripts and documents believed to have been looted by Belgian soldiers from a German ...

WEIMAR, Germany (AP) -- A fire that ripped through one of Germany's most precious historical libraries destroyed or damaged tens of thousands of irreplaceable books, although some 6,000 works, ...