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The article provides a summary of a September 2009 meeting on provenance research projects as reported at the 30th Austrian Librarian Conference in Graz, Austria. Among the undertakings reviewed was the attempt to inventory and recover missing medical manuscripts of the University of Vienna, Austria, lost during the National Socialist (Nazi) era. Similar book restitution efforts were reported at the universities of Graz, Innsbruck, Klagenfurt, and Salzburg.

The article presents the summaries of the special events organized by the Vereinigung Österreichischer Bibliothekarinnen und Bibliothekare (VÖB), an Austrian association for librarians, in 2009. Events included a visit to an exhibit on the Jewish collector Raoul Korty at the Austrian National Library in Vienna, Austria, a viewing of the film "The Hollywood Librarian: a Look at Librarians through Film" at the U.S. Embassy in Vienna, and a visit to the music collection of the Vienna Library.