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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.

The National Széchényi Library, located in the Buda Castle, is an institution that preserves and transmits Hungarian cultural heritage. Its latest exhibition, The Forms of Time, presents the perception of time in ancient and Christian culture in an innovative and family-friendly way: alongside calendars, chronicles, postcards and photographs, visitors may also find handheld and digital curiosities.

The exhibition “Divine and eaten. The ambivalent relationship between humans and animals in the land on the Nile” in the Papyrus Museum of the Austrian National Library tells of divine beings, feared creatures and the everyday coexistence of humans and animals using documents on papyrus, paper and parchment dating back hundreds or even thousands of years.

From May 3rd to 10th, the German National Library is taking part in the Freedom of Expression Week. During the campaign week organised by the German Publishers and Booksellers Association, short announcements will be made in the reading rooms.