Author Archives: Kerstin Meinel

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.

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.

To  aligh  to  the international event Open Education Week, coordinated by the Open Education Global forum, the National Library of the Republic of Moldova organized during 4-7 March 2024 a series of events. 

New special exhibit in the State Hall of the Austrian National Library: In 2024, the world of music will celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Anton Bruckner, one of the most important composers of the 19th century.

Last week, the first truck of books from the collections of the Royal Library of Belgium (KBR) left for the European digitization site of Google Books as part of a partnership announced in 2022.

On the occasion of March 8, in National and University Library of North Macedonia was shown the digital exhibition Women in rare periodicals. The newspaper Makedonka i.e. is the first women’s magazine published in Macedonia.