The three-year partnership between the American Library Association (ALA) and Bibliothek und Information Deutschland (BID) kicked off at the 6th Library Congress in Leipzig, Germany, March 14–17. Then ...

American Library Association (ALA) President Courtney Young and Barbara Lison, a representative of the German library association Bibliothek & Information Deutschland (BID), signed an agreement on ...

For someone writing under the name Robert Basic, it seemed too good to be true. “My parents are never going to believe I’m going to be catalogued by the German national library,” the blogger wrote ...

The Bavarian State Library, one of the biggest libraries in the German-speaking world, has agreed to participate in Google Inc.'s project to scan books from the world's great collections. By Reuters, ...

WEIMAR, Germany (AP) -- A fire that ripped through one of Germany's most precious historical libraries destroyed or damaged tens of thousands of irreplaceable books, although some 6,000 works, ...

Archaeologists identified the library based on a series of wall niches that once housed ancient scrolls Hi-flyFoto/Roman-Germanic Museum of Cologne When archaeologists uncovered the walls of a ...

Rare manuscripts thought to have been looted from Bonn library by Belgian soldiers Hundreds of priceless manuscripts and documents believed to have been looted by Belgian soldiers from a German ...

The library was built from the ground up with the support and interaction of the surrounding community – first as a 1:1 model made from beer cartons and later as a finished project with the help of ...

In 1648, Augustus the Younger, duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, attempted to purchase Das Große Stammbuch, a “friendship book” from the collection of the recently deceased Philipp Hainhofer, a wealthy, ...