Aušrinė Žilinskienė takes over as Director General of the National Library of Lithuania

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.

2024 EKN grantees announced

This year’s round of applications for CENL’s Erland Kolding Nielsen Grant closed on 20 March. We are delighted to announce this year’s EKN grantees: National Library of Bulgaria, National Library of Georgia and National Library of Moldova. Find out more about the additional grantees here.

Podcast AugenRausch

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 Lithuania strengthens competences in the country’s cultural sector

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.