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.
In partnership with the BnF and with the support of Mellon Foundation Saint-Joseph’s University in Beirut, the Institut français d’études anatoliennes (IFEA) and İstanbul Bilgi University are launching grants for doctoral/postdoctoral research.
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.
On 19 April 2024, the National and University Library in Zagreb hosted an escape room event which it jointly organised with the Fox in a Box company to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić (1874-1938).
The XXXV International Sarajevo Book Fair 2024, under the motto “The Word”, ended with the Award ceremony. The jury of experts decided on the best in 19 categories as well as on the winners of special fair awards.
The manuscript, left by Céline in his Paris flat when he fled to Germany in June 1944 and collected by Yvon Morandat, Compagnon de la Libération, now joined the collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
The Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany has been the foundation of German democracy for 75 years. The foyer presentation “This is us! 75 years of Basic Law. A publication history” is devoted to the basic law of our constitutional state, one key element of which is the protection of freedom of expression from extremist dissension.
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