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, ...

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 Cologne Public Library is serving as a social and educational space for the city’s refugees, as counterparts across Germany increasingly become places for community engagement. Could the UK learn ...

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 ...

Books and beer are more than just a great late-night combination; they’re also both integral to Magdeburg, Germany’s new Open Air Library. The pop-up library started with the facade of an old ...

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 ...

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 ...

Construction works on a church community center have revealed the ruins of a Roman library in the city of Cologne, Germany. Believed to be the oldest in the country, the library dates from the second ...

Archeologists in Cologne are sure they have found what looks like the foundations of the oldest verifiable library in Germany. It was built by the Romans about 1,800 years ago. The massive remains of ...

The Harold Grinspoon Foundation is partnering with Jewish groups in Germany, Austria and Switzerland to bring German-language Jewish books to children aged 2 to 8. BERLIN (JTA) — PJ Library, the ...

A psychology professor is facing a fine of €1,000 and a further €1,250 in admin fees for the late return of 50 books, after missing a deadline by 40 days. Her lawyer has told a judge that the fine is ...

The foundations of a Roman building that is probably the oldest library in Germany have been uncovered in central Cologne in archaeological excavations during the construction of a new parish building ...