National Library of Luxembourg publishes manuscript transcribed with AI technology for the first time

For the first time, the National Library of Luxembourg has used a cutting-edge AI tool to transcribe a handwritten document. Louis Joseph Zelle’s “Myn wedervaren” offers a rare, critical glimpse into 19th-century Luxembourg and the Dutch colonial army. It is now fully digitised and available on eluxemburgensia.lu for all to access.

The International Conference ‘Footprints of the Early Modern Book Trade: Transnational Mobility between the Low Countries and the Baltic Sea Region’, 25-27 November, 2024, National Library of Latvia

The National Library of Latvia invites book historians and library professionals to attend the international book history conference, focusing on the dynamics of social and geographical mobility reflected in Early Modern printers, book trade, printing equipment, printed works, and the cross-border movement of knowledge, skill, and tradition. Registration is now open.

“The European ex libris from the cultural heritage of the National Library of the Republic of Moldova” exhibition

“The European ex libris from the cultural heritage of the National Library of the Republic of Moldova” exhibition highlights some of the old books printed in XVII-XIX centuries which belonged to the European aristocratic families. The ownership of the books was marked by an ex libris label, which beside the informational has as well an artistic value.