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The focus of the current issue 3/2013 of GMS Medizin - Bibliothek - Information is the annual conference 2013 of the German Medical Libraries Association in Berlin. The motto of the conference was "Medical librariesbeta - Change is the constant". The authors in this issue are Michaele Adam (Open access publishing in medicine - in the focus of bibliometrics at the SLUB Dresden), Bruno Bauer, Helmut Dollfuβ & Daniel Formanek (The university library at the Medical University Vienna goes e-only. Change in the provision of literature from p+e to e-only on January 1st, 2013), Henriette Senst & Jens Erling (The teaching services of the Robert Koch-Institute's library) and Martina Semmler-Schmetz & Jutta Matrisciano (Medical Librariesbeta - Change is the Constant. Annual meeting 2013 of the German MLA (AGMB), September 16th to 18th in Berlin). Furthermore this focus issue features articles from Oliver Obst & Verena Salewsky (How do today's students learn? An e-book study of the branch library of medicine, University of Münster) and from Oliver Obst, Christiane Hofmann, Helge Knüttel & Petra Zöller ("Ask a question, get an answer, continue your work!" - Survey on the use of UpToDate at the universities of Freiburg, Leipzig, Münster and Regensburg). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on a conference of German librarians in Leipzig, Germany, from March 11-14, 2013, which focused on the effect of technological innovations on library and information services and knowledge management. The authors present summaries of several conference panels, including on library collection and personnel management, library science education and information literacy education, and legal and political aspects of libraries in Germany.

The article discusses the 100th German librarians' retreat that took place in Berlin, Germany from June 7 to 10, 2011, titled "Bibliotheken für die Zukunft - Zukunft für die Bibliothek" ("Libraries for the Future - a Future for the Libraries"). Talks were given by speakers such as Bruno Bauer, Christian Beiler, and Wolfram Seidler on topics including the future of cataloging, innovation management, and open source software in libraries.

The article reports on satellite conferences between the Hochschulbibliothekszentrum des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen (hbz - College Library Center of North-Rhine Westphalia) ) and the Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Medizin (ZB MED - German Central Library for Medicine) in Düsseldorf, Germany in November 2008. The Open Access Conference addressed the theme "Changing Scholary Communication in the Knowledge Society."