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 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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a humble church building in the leafy suburb of Beaumaris in Melbourne, the latest project of a handful of German parents has finally culminated into Bücherwald (book forest), a library that ...

The Munich-based library, which contains around 9 million volumes in total, is to make about 1 million books available to the Google Book Search, ranging from classics by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe to ...