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, ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LET’S GO PLACES. LIBRARY BOOKS CAN TAKE YOU TO OTHER WORLDS SOMETIMES, BUT THEN OTHER TIMES THEY’RE THE ONES ACTUALLY DOING THE TRAVELING. YEAH, THE HOPKINTON TOWN LIBRARY HAS PROOF IT RECEIVED ...