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A calendar of events related to libraries in Germany in 2016 is presented which includes meeting entitled "Communication: Professional Worlds Meet," the conference "The Future in Art and Museum Libraries: Digital knowledge spaces extended," and symposium "Handschriften and Old Prints."

The innovative project of the Sitterwerk Art Library in St. Gallen (Switzerland) is integrated within an environment of art and production. The Art Library is part of a foundation of the same name along with the Material Archive, the Studio House, and the Kesselhaus Josephsohn. By means of a novel application of RFID technology, the library has been developed spatially and supplemented with an intelligent table. The ongoing inventory using reading devices facilitates a flexible arrangement of the books that also adapts itself to users. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article describes the library of the ERSTE Foundation in Vienna, Austria. Information is provided about the library's collections, which focus thematically on social and cultural policy, European integration, and democratization and geographically on Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. Additional information on archival holdings and special collections on contemporary Austrian and Eastern European art and on the history of credit unions in Austria is also presented.

The article reports the experiences of three libraries using various quality management systems. Discussed are the Stadtbücherei Frechen city library in Frechen, Germany, using an International Organization for Standardization 9001, the German state library for art (KAH) using the standards of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Kunst-und Museumsbibliotheken (AKMB), and the library of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, using the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) Model of Excellence.

The article announces the presentation of Duke Franz von Bayern's library to the art history institute Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich, Germany. Von Bayern's library collection includes approximately 15,000 titles of monographs, catalogs of works and of exhibitions relating to art created after 1945. Historical details about the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte are given.

The article discusses a joint effort of the Labor Association of Art and Museum Libraries (AKMB) and the Institute for Library and Information Science to create an ISO standards compliant certification program for art and museum libraries. Their first certification audit is to occur the at the library of the Institute for Modern Art in Nuremberg, Germany.

The article announces that the publication titled "Standards in Kunst- und Museumsbibliotheken," which outlines standards for art libraries and museum libraries in Germany, has been revised. The editor of this publication is the Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Kunst- und Museumsbibliotheken (AKMB; Working Group for Art and Museum Libraries) and has developed standards for quality management through the implementation of this document.