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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

A German library has purchased a 400-year-old album containing illustrations and inscriptions from European emperors, kings, and princes for €2.8m. The album originally belonged to Philipp Hainhofer ...