News - Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

The exhibition of students (from Vilnius Academy of Arts) works of stained glass in Palanga Summer Reading Room

2012-07-04

The exhibition of students works of lecturer Ieva Paltanavičiūtė and professor Algirdas Dovydėnas (of Department of Monumental Arts and Scenography of Vilnius Academy of Arts) “Miracle of Stained Glass” will be displayed in Palanga Summer Reading Room until 28 August.

Summer opening times

2012-07-02

From July 1 the National Library changes to summer opening times.

The new European Library portal was presented at LIBER conference

2012-06-28

The new European Library portal (www.theeuropeanlibrary.org ) was presented at the annual conference of LIBER Association of European Research Libraries inTartuUniversity on June 27-30. This is a joint catalogue of European national and research libraries, consisting of over 10 million digital documents and 200 million bibliographic records of documents.

The conference, dedicated for discussion of project (Development of Virtual Electronic Heritage System) results

2012-06-28

Implementation of the investment project “Development of Virtual Electronic Heritage System” ends in July 31, 2012. This important project forLithuaniaand world is continuation of already conducted project in the period 2005-2008 (author and project leader Dr. Regina Varnienė-Janssen).

Europeana Plenary Conference in Belgium

2012-06-25

Europeana Plenary Conference took place in Belgium (Leuven) on June 13-15. More than twenty Europeana project participants, representing European cultural and scientific institutions, information technology companies gathered in old Catholic University of Leuven. Works and their results (of 2011) as well as events for dissemination of Europeana content and services were overviewed during the conference. Great attention was paid to providing for Europeana future; various scenarios of development, including opportunities of creation of innovative network of Europeana Culture Commons, were discussed.

Director General of the National Library participated the pre-conference Rio +20 forum, organized by The United Nations Global Compact in Rio de Janeiro

2012-06-22

Director General of the National Library and expert of European Science Foundation for knowledge economy Prof. Dr. Renaldas Gudauskas participated the pre-conference Rio +20 forum, organized by The United Nations Global Compact in Rio de Janeiro on 15-18 June 2012.

The new exhibition, prepared by Library stuff “Creation after creation…”

2012-06-22

The new exhibition of bookbinder Olga Amulevičienė and head of Acquisitions Department Vytautas A. Gocentas “Creation after creation…” is prepared in the National Library.

Gift from Prof. Dr. Udo Arnold to the National Library

2012-06-22

Prof. Dr. Udo Arnold gave the National Library six books in the series of conference reports of Historical Commission for East and West Prussian History (Tagungsberichte Historischen Kommission der Ost-und für westpreussische Landesforschung).

Final meetings of the project “Building strong Library Associations”, carried out by Lithuanian Librarians 'Association

2012-06-20

Conference and final meetings of the IFLA project “Building strong Library Associations”, carried out by Lithuanian Librarians 'Association took place on June 14-15.

Palanga Summer Reading Room of the National Library

Opening of the summer season in Palanga Summer Reading Room

2012-06-18

Palanga Summer Reading Room (already 46^th season) invites everyone – from the youngest to the oldest – to spend great time meaningfully.
Palanga Summer Reading Room offers an attractive book, magazine and newspaper collection, wireless internet.