Category Archives: Featured

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.

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”.