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The article "How are liturgical books created?" deals with the process of creating liturgical books for an entire language area. Various occasions and objectives for the publication of such books are discussed, with the liturgy interacting with other areas and aspects. The article also sheds light on the development of liturgical books after the Reformation and the Council of Trent in the 16th century, as well as the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council. It is emphasized that since then, the liturgy can be celebrated in the vernacular languages, resulting in new conditions and challenges. The article describes the process of creating liturgical books in the Catholic Church, with the responsibility for publication being transferred to the bishops' conferences. The need for revisions of liturgical books is pointed out, and questions regarding the plausibility of the liturgy in a secularized society and a damaged church are raised. [Extracted from the article]

Compared to the Habsburg era, when Yiddish writings were hardly printed in Bukovina - due to the centralized policy of Vienna and the openness towards integration and assimilation on the part of numerous Bukovinian Jews, as well as because of the status of Yiddish as the language of uneducated Jews - the Yiddish printing industry, as well as the Yiddish libraries didn't develop until the early 1920s, simultaneously with the emergence of national identity concepts. This paper is based on descriptive research and discusses the importance of these institutions in shaping trajectories of cultural, national and linguistic identities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the regular elections for the new DEGAM presidency, Prof. Dr. med. Martin Scherer was reconfirmed as president, Prof. Dr. med. Eva Hummers as vice president, and Prof. Dr. med. Jean-François Chenot as another vice president. New sections such as "Digitalization" and "Climate Change and Health" were also introduced. The new executive presidency also includes Edmund Fröhlich as treasurer and Prof. Dr. med. Erika Baum as an assessor and past president. New spokespersons for the various sections were also elected. The term of office for all members of the presidency is three years. [Extracted from the article]

The spectrum of subjects the IFLA Newspapers Section (in future: News Media Section) has to deal with has broadened considerably due to retrodigitization and the development of new digital news media. Conferences in 2014 treated - among others - the following subjects: digital deposit copy collections and new tasks of libraries concerning news media, digitization of newspapers, especially the Europeana Newspapers Project, use outlines and activities of libraries for attractive, user-friendly access to historic newspapers. OCR improvement, Named Entity Recognition and automated linking procedures as ways to optimize research in newspapers were also discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on the conference "Die nationalsozialistische Okkupationspresse in den besetzten Gebieten der Sowjetunion, 1941-1944" (The National Socialist Press in the Occupied Territories of the Soviet Union), held at the University of Heidelberg from November 5-8, 2010. Papers discussed various aspects of press politics and propaganda in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe, including their institutional organization, content, reception, and audience, as well as biographical questions.