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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.

A new exhibition in the Literature museum of the Austrian National Library is dedicated to the great poet Friederike Mayröcker (1924-2021). The exhibition is on show until 16 February 2025.

Visual arts for listeners: “AugenRausch”, the new podcast by the German Museum of Books and Writing at the German National Library. The podcast focuses on images as a source of knowledge: comics, manga, picture stories, illustrations, infographics, icons – the world is full of image-based knowledge.

The National Library of Latvia (NLL) has embarked on a new stage of its development by approving its strategic vision for the next five years.

The National Library of Lithuania is implementing a national competence development project “Improvement of general, managerial and professional competences in the cultural sector”. The project aims to ensure systematic, targeted and long-lasting competence development of cultural sector employees, directly contributing to qualitative changes in cultural services.

On the occasion of the Independence Day of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina prepared an exhibition entitled “History and Identity”.

On Sunday, March 10, the National Library hosted a discussion entitled “Herbert and the World”. Held in the Library’s new reading rooms, the event marked the start of the celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Polish playwright and essayist Zbigniew Herbert.

A significant resource for cartography and the history of science is now freely available to all interested in history and old maps, regardless of time and place.