Author Archives: Kerstin Meinel

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.

On 23 May 2023, Judit Gerencsér, Deputy Director General and Zoltán Lewalt-Jezierski, Chief of the Cabinet of the Director General of the National Széchényi Library, participated at the 22nd Professional Seminar on Library Trends 2023 – TLib 2023: seminar for librarians and information specialists in the V4 countries, held in Banská Bystrica, at the Slovak State Scientific Library.

In 2009, the first Museum Night was organised in Estonia. Since then, this magic night has been celebrated every year on a Saturday evening in May when nearly two hundred museums and memory institutions across Estonia open their doors until late night. National Library of Estonia has taken part in this traditional event for many years already.

After a European tour through Brașov, Tirana, Brussels, Leskovac, and Veles, the exhibition “CAN for Balkans” arrives in Bucharest, in a suitable setting – in the Atrium of the National Library of Romania. Here, the initiators’ approach was completed with a representative selection of comic books dedicated to the subject, hold in the collections of our library.