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.
For all countries, regardless of anniversaries, there is a year that stands as a landmark in their recent historical journey. In the 20th century, for the countries of Western Europe, that year was 1945, the end of World War II, the Liberation. It could be the same for Greece, if it hadn’t been followed by the Civil War.
The German National Library’s German Exile Archive mourns the loss of Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer. The famous US-American sex therapist died on 12 July 2024 in New York City. She was 96 years old.
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.
An anniversary exhibition of publications with the generic “The Constitution of the Republic of Moldova, 30 years since its adoption” is organized at the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova
The British Library is delighted to announced that Hisham Matar, Jane Winters and Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún will be presenting keynotes at the conference marking 20 years of our Endangered Archives Programme.
“The European ex libris from the cultural heritage of the National Library of the Republic of Moldova” exhibition highlights some of the old books printed in XVII-XIX centuries which belonged to the European aristocratic families. The ownership of the books was marked by an ex libris label, which beside the informational has as well an artistic value.
The National Library of Scotland has published an official statement on its approach to the responsible adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI). It will guide our decision-making on how we apply AI tools, communicate about our use of AI, collect AI-generated material, and allow our data to be used by others.
“The Train of Pain” exhibition was opened on the Grand National Assembly Square, Chisinau with the occasion of the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the largest mass deportation of population from the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic (July 6-9, 1949); the exhibition is available to the public from July 6, 2024, between 9:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m.
The National Library of Romania in collaboration with the “G. Oprescu” Institute of Art History of the Romanian Academy organized, on 3rd of July 2024, the second edition of the International Conference “Romanian Photography. Local Perspectives and European Trends”.
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