National Library of France: 2025 Call for applications for international professionals

Applications are currently opened for the Courants du monde (individual long format) programme, coordinated by the French Ministry of Culture. During their stays, visiting professionals carry out a concrete cooperation project, focus on the study of a specific topic or collection, or on a project related to the holdings or current activities of the BnF.

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.