Author Archives: Kerstin Meinel

National and University Library St. Clement of Ohrid – Skopje traditionally celebrates the 23rd of April World Book and Copyright day. World Book and Copyright Day celebrates the power of books and their creators, promoting literacy and protecting intellectual property rights globally.

Timeless Archives, Timely Connections: Preserving Endangered Documentary Heritage and Inspiring Collaboration is a conference to be held on 31 October – 1 November 2024, organised by the Endangered Archives Programme (EAP) and the British Library’s International Office. This will be a hybrid conference to be held at the British Library, London and online. 

For more than 800 years, coats of arms have been an expression of personal, family and social identity. The new Ars Heraldica exhibition at the National Library of Luxembourg helps visitors decode the mysterious and obscure world of coats of arms and provides an insight into this very specialised form of self-representation.

On April 15, Aušrinė Žilinskienė became Director General of the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania. Mrs. Žilinskienė was selected to lead the National Library after winning a Ministry of Culture competition in November of last year. She is the first female director general in the National Library’s 105-year history.

To  aligh  to  the international event Open Education Week, coordinated by the Open Education Global forum, the National Library of the Republic of Moldova organized during 4-7 March 2024 a series of events. 

New special exhibit in the State Hall of the Austrian National Library: In 2024, the world of music will celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Anton Bruckner, one of the most important composers of the 19th century.

Last week, the first truck of books from the collections of the Royal Library of Belgium (KBR) left for the European digitization site of Google Books as part of a partnership announced in 2022.

On the occasion of March 8, in National and University Library of North Macedonia was shown the digital exhibition Women in rare periodicals. The newspaper Makedonka i.e. is the first women’s magazine published in Macedonia.