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The article presents the discussion on Onleihe experiencing a historic one with 1.3 million users and around 46 million loans leading e-lending service in public libraries in German-speaking countries.

The article presents the discussion on communication sites, meeting points, places of exchange, centers of urban society. Topics include projects for the cooperative further development of public libraries and other cultural and educational institutions to so-called third places; and urban society often being the only one in rural areas cultural place in the community.

The article delves into the question of whether the Brothers Grimm fabricated their fairy tales, debunking the myth through the research findings of Professor Holger Ehrhardt from Kassel University, who discovered previously unknown original manuscripts among the Grimm Brothers' papers in Germany.

The article focuses on Open Access that is well on the way from utopia to reality. Topics incldue exmaines the criticism of the paper-based system for the publication of scientific publications, which has been established for centuries and has been transferred to the electronic world, is not only being met with open ears by an increasing number of those involved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports that the Onleihe has been working with Adobe's Digital Rights Management (DRM) for reading media. It mentions that DRM Care is intended to simplify the digital lending and use of e-books, e-papers and e-magazines on a large number of end devices, and lending of electronic reading media with close cooperation with the e-racer provider tolino gives hope for a problem-free implementation of much-used device with weicereo providers of end devices.

The article presents the discussion on written cultural assets of the 19th and 20th centuries. Topics include newspapers and other fast-moving media such as those in abundance keeping in libraries and archives containing printed works predating the invention of wood; and taking action for conserving the valuable assets taking before the deterioration of the paper progresses further.