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The third scholarly and interdisciplinary symposium „NS-Ioot in libraries" took place in Hanover, on 8th to 9th November 2007, flanked by the expositions „Displaced Books -- NS-Ioot in the university library of Marburg; at the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz Library, as well as „Expropriated, distracted, indemnified -- the art collection Gustav Rüdenberg 1951-1956", at the town archive of Hanover. Investigations were made about the part of the Prussian State Library and the exchange office of the Empire as distributor institution for confiscated literature, the NS loot research, for instance at the State and university library Hamburg, the University and country library Münster, the University library Rostock, as well as the confiscation of church and monastery libraries by the Gestapo. Further subjects amongst others have been the part of the fiscal authorities at the deportation of Jews, whose properties accrued to the state, the topic restitution in old Jewish sources, the private scholar library of Elise and Helene Richter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the 3rd Hannover Symposium held from November 8–9, 2007 in Hannover, Germany. The main focus of the symposium centered on looted materials from the time of national socialism that are found in German libraries. Additionally, an exhibit on displaced books and one on the artwork of Gustav Rüdenberg were displayed at the city archive in Hannover.