On October 26, 2023 at 11:00 AM, the new Digital Library of Latvia website will be launched in the Klīversala Hall of the National Library of Latvia, available at www.digitalabiblioteka.lv.
The ceremonial event will be attended by Agnese Lāce, Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Culture, Silvija Reinberga, Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Education and Science, and Gatis Ozols, Deputy State Secretary of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development. The participants of the event will be introduced to the possibilities of the Digital Library of Latvia, which will be useful for every resident in Latvia and abroad, and a panel discussion will reveal the role of the Digital Library of Latvia in the digital transformation of the state and culture.
The Digital Library of Latvia is an access to images, documents, periodicals, books, maps, museum objects, paintings, sheet music, films, sound and video recordings collected by Latvian archives, museums, libraries, organizations, communities and private individuals. In total, there are currently more than 3.8 million digital items on any topic.
The content of the Digital Library of Latvia is made up of values from more than 500 partner collections and holdings from all over Latvia and the world, and the Digital Library of Latvia brings together cultural heritage, stories and people. The National Library of Latvia brings together digital content in the Digital Library of Latvia and manages the Digital Cultural Heritage Platform. The leading partners of the Digital Library of Latvia are the National Archives of Latvia, the Culture Information Systems Centre, the National Cultural Heritage Board and the National Library of Latvia.
The site was created over seven years and was co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund and the state. In 2015, for the first time in Latvia, a joint "Digital Cultural Heritage Development Strategy" for archives, libraries and museums was developed, which marked much closer cooperation between cultural heritage institutions than before and allowed for application for European Regional Development Fund funding for the creation of a national digital library and a unified digital cultural heritage platform.
From 2017 to 2022, the National Library of Latvia, together with the National Archives of Latvia, the National Cultural Heritage Board and the Cultural Information Systems Centre, implemented the projects "Digitization of Cultural Heritage Content (1st round)" and "Digitization of Cultural Heritage Content (2nd round)", which resulted in the creation of the Digital Library of latvia.
Additional information:
Karīna Bandere
Director of the Digital Development Department
National Library of Latvia
E-mail: karina.bandere@lnb.lv
Tel.: +371 26446600
(Translated with the help of DeepL Translate)
