E-library, provided by the National Library of Finland in cooperation with public libraries, celebrates its first anniversary on 29 April 2025. In the first year of operations, millions of loans have been placed, and the availability of material has improved compared with previous years.
On 13 April, the British Library released Knowledge Without Borders, its first report exploring the impact of its international collaborations with partners around the world.
In 2024, the National Library of Spain expanded its collection with 3,364 valuable items worth €1.4 million. An additional 82,628 items were received through donations, valued at €461,275, enriching Spain’s bibliographic and documentary heritage.
Read and evaluate! The National Library of Latvia invites to register for the readers’ favourite programme “Children, Youth and Parents Jury 2025”
One of the central events of the public engagement movement “Restart for Reading” is the reading promotion programme “Children, Youth and Parents Jury 2025” which has been organised by the NLL for 25 years. Libraries, schools, diaspora centres and also individuals can apply for participation in the largest and longstanding State-funded reading promotion initiative.
To mark the bicentenary of diplomatic relations between France and Brazil, the France-Brazil 2025 Season successively showcases Brazil in France (from April to September) and France in Brazil (from August to December), highlighting the excellence of bilateral relations between the two countries.
The UNESCO Executive Board in Paris has endorsed the inscription of the estates of Swiss women writers Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908–1942) and Ella Maillart (1903–1997) on the Memory of the World Register. A homage to two pioneering figures in travel writing and socially engaged literature.
Four institutions are giving Germany’s written memory a helping hand by launching a new joint project involving the digitisation and provision of open access to the country’s typographic cultural heritage.
Manuscripts and old printed books, significant not only for their historical value but also as remarkable works of art fascinated a group of Fulbright scholars and alumni at the National Library of Bulgaria.
To mark 130 years since the 1895 Ljubljana earthquake, Slovenia’s National and University Library launched a multimedia event using AI to animate archival photos. It also introduced a digital assistant trained on historical sources to deepen public engagement and explore AI’s role in culture.
A delegation from the National Library of Bulgaria visited key cultural institutions in Iceland and explored 4 award winning interactive exhibitions within a bilateral cooperation for socialisation of literary and documentary heritage via digital technologies.
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