Bibliotheca Baltica
Bibliotheca Baltica is the name of an international association of libraries and the series of books it instigated , which make important works of the cultural heritage of the Baltic countries accessible again in high-quality book editions.
history
In the summer of 1992 at the initiative of Jörg Fligge and Robert Schweitzer from the library of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck under the initiative Ars Baltica in Lübeck a symposium held that establishing the working group Bibliotheca Baltica led.
In the meantime, 41 libraries from all ten countries of the Baltic Sea region ( Norway , Sweden , Finland , Russia , Estonia , Latvia , Lithuania , Poland , Germany and Denmark ) are represented in the working group to meet the historical and current requirements arising from the historical and the new Neighborhood on the Baltic Sea surrendered to meet.
Since 1994 the working group has published the newsletter Bibliotheca Baltica: Information on librarianship in the Baltic Sea region . The intention is for all libraries in the countries bordering the Baltic Sea to work together in the storage, consolidation and cataloging of the cultural assets of these countries. This also includes cultural assets that are documented as looted art or looted art in the database for lost art and cultural assets. Realistically, however, such extensive cooperation is not yet possible due to financial and political restrictions.
Meetings
The working group holds a symposium every two years. The previous meetings have taken place as listed below:
- June 15 - June 17, 1992: Lübeck
- May 11 - May 15, 1994: Tartu (Estonia) with a focus on the history of literature
- May 15 - May 19, 1996: Riga (Latvia) on the peculiarities of the music libraries of the Baltic countries
- September 17 - September 20, 1998: Stockholm (Sweden) on library management
- September 19 - September 24, 2000: Stettin (Poland) on the possibilities of cooperation between libraries
- September 18 - September 21, 2002: Copenhagen, Denmark on Libraries in Denmark and Sweden
- April 21 - April 24, 2004: Greifswald for the 400th anniversary of the Greifswald University Library
- November 16 - November 17, 2006: Vilnius (Lithuania) on the Baltic cultural heritage in the digital age in Europe
- October 23 - October 24, 2008: Saint Petersburg (Russia) on the cartographic history of the Baltic Sea and the neighboring countries
- October 21 - October 22, 2010: Helsinki (Finland) for the digitization of book holdings and collections
- October 25 - October 26, 2012: Tallinn (Estonia) on the offer of libraries as research service providers
- October 9 - October 10, 2014: Stockholm (Sweden) on the topic of Digital Humanities
- October 20 - October 21, 2016: Riga (Latvia) on future knowledge and skills required in libraries
- October 4 - October 5, 2018: Rostock (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania) on "Sharing the Sources - New Technologies for Libraries, Archives and Research Communities"
Web links
- Bibliotheca Baltica on the website of the National Library of Latvia (English)