Sponsorship: Goethe-Institut, New York; U.S. Diplomatic Mission to Germany; Bibliothek & Information International. Ten WESS members were selected to participate in a study tour of eastern Germany sponsored by the Goethe-Institut, New York; the U.S. Diplomatic Mission to Germany, Public Affairs Section; and Bibliothek & Information International, in cooperation with WESS. Titled "Leipzig, Dresden, Weimar: Exploring a Library Landscape" the tour was intended to acquaint German Studies specialists from US academic and research libraries with developments in librarianship and publishing in eastern Germany since unification. The tour, which ran March 16-23, 2006, was book-ended, start and finish, by the Leipzig Book Fair and Germany's national professional meeting of librarians, the Bibliothekartag, held this year in Dresden.
(c) ACRL, a division of the American Library Association. Hacken, Richard and Kizer Walker, ""The WESS East German Study Tour: A Report"" WESS Newsletter 30.1, (Fall 2006).;