Author Archives: Kerstin Meinel

According to the first carbon footprint assessment of the National Library of Finland, most of the Library’s emissions in 2019 were generated by procurement and energy consumption at its facilities. In the coming years, the intention is to investigate the carbon footprint of other operations, including digital services and digitisation.

In May 2023, 64 new items of documentary heritage were inscribed on the Memory of the World International Register, among which The illuminated manuscripts of Charlemagne’s Court School. The application was submitted jointly by the Stadtbibliothek de Trier (Germany) and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, with the support of the institutions that preserve the manuscripts in France and Europe.

The documentary exhibition “Sarajevo Assassination” (Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand), by Valerijan Žuja, was opened at the Bošnjački institut (Bosniak Institute). The exhibition contains multimedia, so in addition to the exhibits, extensive video material is also shown, which also presents materials that could not be seen before.

On 16-17 May the National Library of Estonia had the pleasure of welcoming colleagues from the National Library of the Czech Republic for a joint workshop. The workshop, initiated by Director General Tomáš Foltýn, was held on the occasion of the official visit of the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic and offered a multi-faceted programme, ranging from development strategies to digital activities.

The Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania is pleased to present a new publication—an open-access collection of articles in English “Theatrum libri: Book Printing, Reading and Dissemination in Early Modern Europe” (Vilnius, 2022). The collection is based on the papers presented at the international conference “Theatrum Libri: The Press, Reading and Dissemination in Early Modern Europe”.

Gallica has reached the symbolic milestone of 10 million documents online and in free access. Launched in 1997, the digital library of the BnF and its now 260 partners celebrates its 25th anniversary.

Paintings, books, pieces of music, films, photographs, manuscripts – starting May 2023, there will be even more cultural treasures to be found in the online portal of the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (German Digital Library, DDB).

The Finnish nationwide e-library will become part of the National Library of Finland when an associated project funded by the Ministry of Education and Culture and coordinated by Helsinki City Library concludes at the end of 2023.

After the completed procedure, the applications received and the candidates considered, the Commission for the Nomination of BH authors for ALMA 2024 met, and based on their decision, the National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina nominated two prominent BH writers for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award for 2024 and promoter of reading for children and young people.

The National Library welcomed three representatives of the Ukrainian Library Association who had been participating in the conference New Experience of Libraries in the Context of Environmental Change in Lithuania.