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, ...

The award-winning international exhibition “Transcending Tradition: Jewish Mathematicians in German-Speaking Academic Culture,” will be on display at the John Crerar Library from Oct. 4 to Dec. 18.

The explosion of online content and digital media poses a challenge for librarians, who are used to dealing with archives of physical material. Still, most libraries are learning to adapt; the US ...

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 ...

Philipp Hainhofer’s Das Große Stammbuch, signed by influential 17th-century Europeans, acquired by Herzog August Bibliothek Almost 400 years after Augustus the Younger tried and failed to buy the ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A small but shared significant shared space was celebrated with a grand opening on Sunday. Louisville's German Little Free Library sits off Baxter Avenue in front of ...

They came fleeing persecution. In 1731, a small group of religious refugees left everything they knew in Silesia, then part ...

FOND DU LAC - Most Wisconsinites know that German culture has deep roots throughout the state. At the 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 18, History at Home programs at the Fond du Lac Public Library, ...

The first instalment of books for the new German library, to be known as the "Villard Library," in honor of its founder, has arrived and the books are now on the shelves in Sever 4. Dr. Francke while ...

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, including a 1543 Martin Luther ...