Author Archives: Kerstin Meinel

The GALEX National Awards Gala was held in Chisinau, Moldova on the occasion of World Book and Copyright Day, and Librarian’s Day, marked on April 23, 2024.

The 19th “Medveščak’s” conference for children’s librarians was held parallel with the IFLA C&YA Section’s Midyear Meeting on March 26th and 27th 2024 at the Zagreb City Libraries – City Library, at the National and University Library in Zagreb, and via the video conferencing platform Zoom.

The cooperation of the Accessible Books Consortium and the National Library of Armenia piloted school textbooks that are formatted according to DAISY standards for digital talking books for people who are blind or have a print disability.

The National Library of Poland together with the Smithsonian Institution and the Kosciuszko Foundation invites you to the charity gala “Cultural Genocide: Ukraine’s Struggle to Preserve History and Identity” which will be held on Saturday June 15 at 18.00 in the National Library of Poland (al. Niepodleglosci 213, Warsaw).

On 17 April, the bilingual exhibition “Catholics in Bulgaria XVII-XX century”, with textual and archival sources from the collections of the National Library of Bulgaria, was officially opened in the central foyer of the library.

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.