This volume is an exception to this generalisation. It looks at various ways in which an African 'presence' was felt in the German city of Leipzig before 1950. Among the topics covered are: - the collection of 'curiosities', ethnographic artefacts, books and travellers' records - the publication of books - missionary work - teaching and research at the university (languages, 'racial science', ethnology etc.) - the display of Africans at trade fairs and exhibitions. Short biographies of 17 men who studied or taught at the University of Leipzig and made a contribution to the study of Africa are also included.

Ist die Mikrobe im Buch – entgegen der Idee von der zerstörerischen Kontamination – auch als Teil des Kulturgutes verstehbar? Hilft sie uns ähnlich einer Sonde, frühere Orte des Buches zu lokalisieren oder Hinweise auf Nutzer zu geben? Wie hat sich die Mikrobengemeinschaft dabei selbst verändert, durch Bucheinbände, Papiere und Tinten, aber auch Lesegewohnheiten und menschliche Hygiene? Diesen Fragen widmet sich das interdisziplinäre Forschungsprojekt MIKROBIB, woraus dieser Katalog zu einer Ausstellung entstand, die digital hier zu sehen ist: https://ausstellungen.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/kontaminierte-bibliothek/ In drei Teilen wird der Zusammenhang von Mikroben- und Buchkultur thematisiert: philosophisch, sammlungshistorisch und mikrobiologisch. Der Katalog enthält über einhundert Abbildungen.

Bevor das Buchmuseum der Sächsischen Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden (SLUB) an seinem alten Standort im Frühjahr 2002 geschlossen wurde und seit 15. Januar 2003 im Bibliotheksneubau wieder der Öffentlichkeit zugänglich ist, fand im November des vergangenen Jahres die letzte Eröffnung einer Sonderausstellung in den alten Räumen statt. Dem Zensieren, Verbieten und Verfolgen des gedruckten Wortes im 20. Jahrhundert nachzugehen und dies an prägnanten Beispielen vorzuführen, galt die Auswahl der Exponate. Dabei spannte sich der Bogen von staatlicher Reglementierung bis zur Selbstzensur der Autoren und Verlage. Auch die Bibliotheken blieben davon nicht unberührt, sondern beteiligten sich beispielsweise mit Ausleihbeschränkungen. Um diese Aspekte zu verdeutlichen, wurde eine chronologische Gliederung gewählt, die Unterschiede und Gemeinsamkeiten an markanten Beispielen beleuchten sollte. / Before the book museum of the Saxon State and University Library Dresden (SLUB) closed at its original location in spring 2002 , ready to move into a newly built library centre, a last spezial exhibition was opened in the former rooms in November of last year. The selected exhibits offered striking examples to illustrate the censoring, prohibition and persecution of the printed word during the 20th century, whether attributable to state regimentation or self-censorship on the part of authors and publishers. Libraries were equally involved, for example with restrictions on lending. A chronological structure was chosen to elucidate these perspectives and to present the distinguishing an common aspects revealed in prominent examples.

An increasing demand for providing accessible content to widely differentiated target groups calls for a universal eBook standard combined with a flexible user interface. For this purpose, we enhanced the current DAISY standard to serve the blind and visually handicapped as well as deaf, hearing impaired, dyslexic and elderly users. In addition to supporting sign language videos and alternatives in simplified language, we introduced videos with media enrichments as a primary source. Additionally a personalizable web player, based on the Adobe Flex Framework, allows real-time streaming and local playback of original and newly developed multimedia DAISY books. Furthermore, the player supports multimodal input such as gesture and speech recognition to facilitate use by physically handicapped people.

The ONCE provides its membership with a cost-free online library service, through which they can obtain books in both print and DAISY format. The present paper contains a brief description of the structure and growing popularity of this service.

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Making market stands more accessible by using DAISY-technology, vendors can easily catalogue their products each week and use our services to fully automatically generate a DAISY book that contains the product-list that can be downloaded thereafter by interested users as a podcast. Additionally, a market stand can use RFID-technology to make the available products easily identifiable.

An increasing demand for providing accessible content to widely differentiated target groups calls for a universal eBook standard combined with a flexible user interface. For this purpose, we enhanced the current DAISY standard to serve the blind and visually handicapped as well as deaf, hearing impaired, dyslexic and elderly users. In addition to supporting sign language videos and alternatives in simplified language, we introduced videos with media enrichments as a primary source. Additionally a personalizable web player, based on the Adobe Flex Framework, allows real-time streaming and local playback of original and newly developed multimedia DAISY books. Furthermore, the player supports multimodal input such as gesture and speech recognition to facilitate use by physically handicapped people.

The ONCE provides its membership with a cost-free online library service, through which they can obtain books in both print and DAISY format. The present paper contains a brief description of the structure and growing popularity of this service.