Johannes Neuer took office of the German National Library in Leipzig on 1 August 2023. The media and communication scientist succeeds Michael Fernau, who took up the post in 2008 and has now retired.
Warfront papers were newspapers for soldiers on the front, published both by official communication companies and by the soldiers themselves. The National Library of Finland has, together with the library of the Finnish National Defence University, digitised a total of 144 Finnish warfront papers from 1939–1945.
If you want to read more about the History of the Greek Revolution, you should visit the Digital Collections Platform of the National Library of Greece. You could even zoom in the Rigas Velestinlis’ Charta of Greece down to the smallest detail and see what the late18th century map, which consists of twelve colored parts, looks like.
Finding information e.g. about special items in the collections, booking tickets for one of the six museums or trainings for getting better research results is now even easier and more user friendly.
Applications are currently openned for two programmes, coordinated by the French Ministry of Culture, that allow professionals working in cultural institutions to spend from one to three month at the BnF and work on a specific theme or collection in relation with the Library.
From 20 to 30 August 2023, the National Library of Latvia was organizing the summer school “Library as a Cultural Space for Community” within the framework of the European Commission’s “EU4Dialogue” project “EU4Dialogue: Improving exchanges across the divide through education and culture”.
This autumn, we are celebrating the 225th anniversary of the National Library of Luxembourg together. Join the Discovery Days and dive into the heart of an institution that has been preserving and sharing Luxembourg’s intellectual heritage for more than two centuries.
Gardens are bounded spaces of flourishing and decay, of relaxation and work, of design and discipline. They provide pleasure, shelter and utility and are as diverse in their forms and determinations as their users. The BnL’s exhibition “Vu Gäert a Bicher” takes you on a stroll through the social, scientific and cultural history of Luxembourg.
The National Library of Serbia has undertaken a significant project of publishing the collected works of Vladan Desnica, as part of its robust publishing efforts.
Vladan Desnica (17 September 1905 – 4 March 1967) was born into a Serbian Christian Orthodox family in Zadar. He pursued studies in law and philosophy in Zagreb and Paris, eventually graduating from the Faculty of Law in Zagreb in 1930. He worked as a lawyer before transitioning to the civil service. Additionally, he was a skilled translator, proficient in Italian, French and Russian. In 1934, he founded the literary and historical yearbook titled Magazin sjeverne Dalmacije.
On 9 and 10 November 2023, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) will be hosting Let’s Go Green! 2023, its second international green libraries conference.
The preliminary program for the Conference has been officially released.
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