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The article presents images of disability from books, texts and stories for children and adolescents from the German Empire to the present, classifies them in terms of social history and shows continuities and discontinuities. The examples show how disability was brought to the attention of children and young people and how it influenced their thoughts and actions. Literary classics, finds from antiquarian bookshops and collections as well as books representing the age of inclusion are presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the course of a joint handover ceremony, the university libraries of the University of Vienna and of the Vienna University of Economics and Business restituted six books to the descendants of the Viennese bookshop "Brothers Suschitzky" on 30 April 2019. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents previews of multiple library conferences including a February 5, 2015 conference for bookstore managers in Neustadt an der Weinstraße, Germany, February 5 and March 11, 2015 conferences on school library administration in Neustadt an der Weinstraße, and a December 6, 2014 conference in Stuttgart, Germany on library and information management.

The article presents the summary of the strategy seminar of the Vereinigung Österreichischer Bibliothekarinnen und Bibliothekare (VÖB), an Austrian library association, that focused on the future of the association. It was held from May 17-18, 2011 in Anthering bei Salzburg, Austria. Topics under discussion at the conference included the integration of younger members into the VÖB, the public book stores in Austria, and the development of internet publishing platforms.

12 million pages in more than 110 000 EU publications have been digitized by the EU Publications Office and are now hosted free of charge downloads in the EU Bookshop Website (<>). Launched at the Frankfurt Book Fair on 16 October 2009, it offers all publications edited by the Publications Office on behalf of the EU institutions, agencies and other bodies since 1952. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents information about automated book acquisition programs for libraries. The University and State libraries of Cologne, Germany practice monograph acquisition through standing order procedure, which automatically requests and receives deliveries of monographs with specific content. The online book dealership Missing Link supplies virtual shopping baskets for literature selection in the natural sciences department of Cologne's University and State libraries.

The article offers information about automatic acquisition systems, integrated transactions and electronic media for libraries. The contributions of various organizations relating to the topic are presented, including the University and Central Library in Cologne, Germany, which has developed an automatic delivery system for monographs. Approval-plans and standing order agreements with the Bremen, Germany academic book shipping company Missing Link are also described.

The article discusses the use of book covers in German online library catalogs. Several online book stores including Amazon, buchhandel.de, and Libreka! are mentioned. Other topics mentioned in this article include the management of German library catalogs, the German publishing and book industry, as well as the German library society Deutsche Bibliotheksverband.