Last week, the first truck of books from the collections of the Royal Library of Belgium (KBR) left for the European digitization site of Google Books as part of a partnership announced in 2022.
On the occasion of March 8, in National and University Library of North Macedonia was shown the digital exhibition Women in rare periodicals. The newspaper Makedonka i.e. is the first women’s magazine published in Macedonia.
This year´s exhibition of Gutenberg’s library will take you back in time to the period when the first printed books were created. And on this journey, you will be accompanied by Johann Gutenberg himself, who will reveal how his printing press changed civilization. In addition, you will see some interesting and rare books. Exhibition is prepared by the Slovak National Library in the Apponyi Library in Oponice.
Organized by the National Library of Romania, the exhibition Books about pandemic published in Romania in 2020-2023, opened to the public on 16 February 2024, presents the results of the bibliographic research undertaken on the production of books published in Romania between 2020 and 2023, on the subject of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The German National Library supports academic research in the field of Digital Humanities >(DH) and is therefore advertising a call for proposals for this year‘s DH Call and DH Fellowships. The DH Call is aimed at researchers who need access to our collections for their projects. Our DH Fellowships offer the opportunity to address and work on research questions relating to our catalog data for a period of three to six months.
The map collection of the National Library of Estonia contains about 33,300 maps covering a period of five centuries. The library invites the wide public to check their homes or offices for any maps that are no longer needed, and to donate them to the library to help reduce the blank spots in history.
“United in Diversity”, № BGCULTURE-3.001-0044-C01, is a project that encourages a Bulgarian-Icelandic partnership between the National Library of Bulgaria and the Vigdís International Center for Multilingual and Intercultural Understanding at the University of Iceland. The joint efforts of the project participants aim to stimulate a dialogue between minority communities in Bulgaria. This project is financed with funds from the Financial Mechanism of the European Economic Area 2014–2021 under Programme PA14, “Cultural entrepreneurship, heritage, and cooperation,” Result 3, “Improved awareness of arts and culture of ethnic and cultural minorities (focus on Roma)”.
Everyone talks about sustainability. And everyone has a different understanding of it. However, this divergence in understanding does not imply a right or wrong perspective. Rather, sustainability is a multifaceted concept, encompassing various dimensions.
On February 14, the Republic of Moldova marks the National Reading Day; the celebration was launched in 2022, in the context of the International Day of Reading Together and of the anniversary of the Moldavian poet Grigore Vieru.
The call for applications for the Erland Kolding Nielsen Grant 2024 is still open. Applications will be accepted until 20 March 2024. The successful applications will expectedly be announced by the end of April 2024.
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