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The year 2023 was all about the 111th anniversary of the German National Library. Find out in the digital annual report how we remain in tune with the times despite this anniversary.

Tuesday, May 21st saw the grand opening of the Palace of the Republic. The palace, one of the most beautiful in Warsaw, is now open to the public for the first time in its long history, stretching back to the seventeenth century. The grand opening was marked with a gala concert, which included a specially composed piece of music by Tadeusz Woźniak entitled Słowo (The Word), directed by Krzysztof Materna.

After the meeting of the Committee for the nomination of BH authors for ALMA 2025, the National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina nominated three prominent BH children and youth writers and one illustrator for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award for 2025.

At the beginning of May, the National Library of Estonia presented the collection “Livoniae Descriptio. Estonia and Livonia on old maps”, compiled by Estonian cartographer Tõnu Raid and the National Library’s Map Librarian Tiina Kruup.

Irish Ministers Catherine Martin and Kieran O’Donnell officially opened the new Joly Lecture Theatre at the National Library of Ireland (NLI). This state-of-the-art facility marks a key milestone in the ‘Reimagining the National Library’ initiative, enhancing Dublin’s cultural landscape.

A new display at the National Library of Scotland explores how visual representations of Italy developed over time. Images of Italy 1480-1900 (until 2 November) includes 15th-century woodcuts to 19th-century photography.

To celebrate the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the BnF is presenting an exhibition on the history of women’s sport in France since the end of the 19th century.

More than 4 million pages will be digitised by 2027, doubling BelgicaPress’s current offering and systematically extending it to cover the period from 1951 to 1989. The project, financed from KBR’s own funds, will give the public the opportunity to consult Belgian newspapers from the second half of the 20th century online.

To Write Freely (https://digitalna.nsk.hr/pisatislobodno/) – a portal on the censorship of periodicals at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century in Croatia is a new online portal within the Digital Collections of the National and University Library in Zagreb, created as a result of a joint project by the National and University Library in Zagreb, the Croatian State Archives, and the Zagreb City Libraries. It has been publicly available since May 3, 2024, as a contribution to the celebration of World Press Freedom Day.