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The article discusses a November 2008 further education conference at the Carl von Ossietzky Provincial and University Library in Hamburg, Germany on the theme "So That Paper Persists... Experiences With Mass Deacidification." The rationale, methodology, scope, and evaluated results of paper deacidification projects in various German libraries were reviewed.

The article offers information on the Conference of the Jülich Central Library's Research Center to be held in Jülich, Germany on November 5-7, 2012.

Information about the symposium "Fragment und Makulatur. Vom Einbandfund zur Internetpräsentation", a symposium on the question whether to restore manuscript fragments and to consider them as missing links, or if they are considered waste paper, held July 2, 2012 in Duisburg, Germany is presented. Other topics mentioned are the conservation of manuscripts, a special treatment of Jewish manuscript fragments, and an overview of recent studies is provided.

This paper contains the most important information concerning the work of the consortium of regional libraries (AG Regionalbibliotheken) within section 4 of the German Library Association (dbv) for the years 2011 and 2012. It includes an overview about the history, structures and organization of the consortium and reports its major activities, such as publications, meetings, conferences and participation at national library congresses. The paper also informs about the consortium's role and position in the current discussions about strategy and concepts of research libraries in Germany. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Information is presented about several papers presented at the Digital Preservation Summit 2011, held on October 19-20, 2011, in Hamburg, Germany. Topics include predictions regarding the digitization of scientific publications by the year 2020, methods of employing digitization to secure long-term archiving, and the exchange of professional experiences about digital archiving.

Information about several papers presented at a symposium held from September 28-30, 2011 at the Bremen City Library, in Germany, sponsored by book distributor Missing Link, on the subject of electronic books (e-books) is presented . Topics include e-books in the city library, strategic library planning relating to e-books, and publishing practices related to e-books.

The article reports on the annual meeting of the Internationale Buchwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft (International Society for Book Studies, IBG), held at the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel, Germany, on October 26-27, 2010. Papers presented revolved around the future of books and libraries in an age of increasing reliance on digital and electronic information resources distributed over the Internet.

This article contains a call for papers and a pre-meeting announcement for the 32nd annual conference of the labor association of special libraries, the Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Spezialbibliotheken (ASpB), which will take place in Karlsruhe, Germany.

The article reports on a May 2007 Swedish National Library conference, or Think Tank as it was called, on the role of the book as artifact and the value of the printed versus digital material. A report on the Google digitalization project at the University of Michigan was presented. Other talks addressed paper book preservation and warehousing, the growth of illiteracy, and the anarchy of the Internet.

The article presents a call for papers for a September 19-23, 2006 library law and economics conference in Bregenz, Austria, a preview of an April 4-5, 2006 library conference on academic publishing is offered, and a preview of an April 25, 2006 conference in Hannover, Germany on master's degree programs in information and knowledge management.

This report informs about the activities of the consortium of regional libraries (AG Regionalbibliotheken) within section 4 of the German Library Association (dbv) in the years 2013 and 2014. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A call for papers is presented for the 6th Congress of the Berufsverbands Information Bibliothek commission to be held in Leipzig, Germany from March 14-17, 2016.

The article focuses on a conference held by the working group "BID AG Bibliothek 2012" on October 5, 2007 in Bremen, Germany in which the social and political role of libraries was discussed. Additionally, standards and laws for libraries in Germany were considered. The working group resolved to draft a strategy paper that will focus on "Bibliothek 2007."