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The e-paper collection of the German National Library (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, DNB) contains about 1.200 titles. These digital versions show the original layout of the printed newspapers and are archived as deposit copies. At the same time, the regional libraries are also entitled to receiving copies from the newspaper publishers, based on the laws of their federal states. After several years of preliminary works, a co-operation between the German National Library and, at the moment, eleven regional libraries from seven federal states has started: since January 2018, the collection of the German National Library is accessible from the premises of the participating regional libraries - of course only the e-papers of the respective federal states or areas are available. Thus, handing in and archiving newspapers twice will be avoided, also at federal state level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents information about developments in the digitalization of library resources in the 20th and 21st centuries. Written material is being digitized at a rate of 800 to 1300 pages per hour, so that libraries in Africa, Europe, the Middle East and the U.S. are able to offer scanned images of archived material to Internet users. An academic study by Swiss historian Monika Dommann is referenced, which discusses the use and regulation of copy machines and their social impact.

The article reports on how the Austrian National Library in Vienna, Austria is working on converting historical documents into digital documents, so that they can be published on the internet. The project is focusing on the daily newspapers that were published in the constituent lands of the Austrian Empire during the reign of the House of Habsburg, an Austrian royal ruling family, and is being financed by the ERSTE Stiftung, a foundation of the Erste Bank financial institution.

Austrian Books Online is a mass-digitisation project of the Austrian National Library in co-operation with Google. This paper describes the context of the project within the library and how it is framed as a public-private partnership. In the following parts, this paper discusses exemplary challenges in the area of logistics and metadata and the area of quality assurance. The concluding part provides an outlook on future developments in Austrian Books Online. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since May 2013, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German research community) supports pilot projects dealing with the digitalization of historic newspapers at four libraries in Germany, one of them the Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen (State and university library Bremen). At the same time, the Zeitschriftendatenbank (ZDB, journal data bank) is extended and the DFG viewers for newspapers are adapted. The participating libraries not only enlarge the number of digitalized newspapers significantly, but work out standards of newspaper digitalization which will also be relevant for future digitalization projects. The SuUB Bremen's pilot project aims at digitalizing all German-language newspapers of the 17th century which are more completely availiable here than anywhere else. The newspapers are presented on the digital collections portal of the SuUB Bremen (http://brema.suub.uni-bremen.de/) based on the software Visual Library. This paper represents newspaper digitalization in the context of the DFG's current support policy. Apart from emphasizing the standard and structure forming aims of the pilot projects, the specific orientation and the peculiarities of the Bremen project are the subject of the following report. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents news briefs pertaining to libraries. An online petition at http://www.klassik-stiftung.de/einrichtungen/herzogin-annaamalia-bibliothek/weimarer-appell/ against the conservation and protection of library materials against destruction via fires and flooding is discussed, the publication of an English translation of a Dutch paper on the future of libraries available online at http://www.siob.nl/media/documents/Library_of_ the_Future_12082014_DEF.pdf is announced, and the launch of the "Landesdigitalisierungsprogramm Wissenschaft und Kultur" library material digitization program in Saxony, Germany is also announced.

The IFLA World Library and Information Congress, 79th IFLA General Conference and Assembly, took place 17-23 August 2013 in Singapore. In this paper, colleagues from the German National Library and the Goethe-Institut Jakarta report on the activities of the Preservation and Conservation, Bibliography, Cataloguing, Classification & Indexing, Information Technology and National Libraries Sections as well as the Conference of Directors of National Libraries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

400 lectures and company presentations as well as 150 exhibitors formed the technical framework for the 101st German Librarians’ Day in Hamburg in May 2012. Whether e-books, Discovery Services, Patron Driven Acquisition, or the latest offers of service partner, the rich palette of topics offered something for each of the more than 4,500 information professionals. This paper provides a summary of the professional part and let some of the participants report on what personal benefits they draw from “Librarians’ Day”. Due to the technical orientation, a summary of the rich entertainment program was intentionally left out here. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on the 2012 conference of the Mikrofilmarchiv der deutschsprachigen Presse (Microfilm Archives of the German-Language Press), held at the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (German National Library, DNB) and focused on microfilm preservation and digitization of newspapers. Topics discussed included microfilming or digitization of print newspapers compared to digital preservation of e-papers, selection criteria for digitization, and reader attitudes to different media formats.

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.

The article reports on the conference "Die gesammelte Welt: Wissensformen und Wissenswandel in Zedlers 'Universal-Lexicon,'" held on November 18-19, 2010, in Wolfenbüttel, Germany. Presentations revolved around the editorial history, historical context, and contents of the Enlightenment-era encyclopedia, edited by Johann Heinrich Zedler in the 18th century, including papers on the representation of Buddhism, the human body, and slavery. A digital edition of the encyclopedia was also discussed.

In this paper we analyse and compare the opening hours of 50 randomly selected university libraries in Austria, Germany, Canada and the USA. Thus we want to answer five concrete questions concerning opening hours, such as ''Is there a correlation between opening hours and size of a library?'' The study reveals for example that larger libraries have extended opening hours. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The PLANETS Testbed is one of the major outcomes of the PLANETS Project (). It serves for execution and documentation of experiments in the field of digital longterm preservation. This paper provides an overview on the PLANETS project and the PLANETS testbed as one of the five subprojects of PLANETS followed by a concrete case study in the context of digital longterm preservation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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.

For planning library conservation measures like mass deacidification, microfilming or digitalisation in acidic book collections, it is nessessary to carry out a damage survey first. This survey should, on the one hand, make it possible to assess the extent of the damage and the suitability of the books for certain kinds of preservation, and on the other hand give direct access to the individual damaged book. With the Göttingen State and University Library as an example, it will be examined if and how a damage survey could be carried out in principle. For this a model is outlined as to how such a damage survey could be carried out. It is discussed if an item-by-item survey or a sample is more suitable, and a damage questionnaire is presented. Furthermore, the paper indicates how the questionnaire can be transformed into a database. Finally the possible course of the survey including preparations and evaluations is outlined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]