On October 15, 2024, during the Italian Language Week in the World (Settimana della Lingua Italiana nel Mondo), the National Library of the Republic of Moldova in collaboration with the Italian Embassy in Moldova organized a cultural event for public interested Italian history, culture and language.
The German National Library’s German Exile Archive 1933-1945 and the Arolsen Archives are announcing a new #everynamecounts challenge. Volunteers can take part in the crowdsourcing initiative from 4 to 17 November 2024. The aim of the challenge is to digitize the so-called expatriation card file (Ausbürgerungskartei) – and raise awareness of the names and stories of people who were stripped of their German citizenship.
Directors of national libraries from around the world elected Dr Tomasz Makowski, Director General of the National Library of Poland, to the position of Vice-Chair of the Conference of Directors of National Libraries (CDNL).
The Central National Library of Rome is pleased to provide a small exhibition presenting some rare and valuable works such as nautical charts and manuscripts atlases on the occasion of the conference CERL’s International Conference 2024 taking place in the library in October focusing on European printing in non-Latin scripts.
Marking the Media Literacy Week, the National Library of Estonia organised the Media Literacy Annual Conference on 24 October, themed “How to Navigate the Information Overload?”
The National Library of Türkiye is a pioneering institution that attaches great importance to cooperation and information sharing in the field of librarianship on a global scale and strengthens its international relations by signing agreements with 42 different countries from Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania.
The National Library of Ireland (NLI) is pleased to announce the acquisition of the archive of A Little Lifetime Foundation, an organisation that has played a vital role in supporting bereaved families in Ireland since its founding in 1983.
The 11th Annual General Meeting of the South-East European National Library Directors (SEENL) was held in Ankara from October 16 to 18, 2024, hosted by the National Library of Türkiye, under the General Directorate of Libraries and Publications of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Türkiye.
