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Title:: Carta del Cantino
Date:: 1502
Institution:: Biblioteca Estense Universitaria
Country:: Italy
Copyright:: CC BY-NC-SA

News Created: 26 October 2020 Martina Bagnoli

Bringing the past back to life with the Estense Digital Library

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The ‘Biblioteca Estense’ in Modena has embraced digital solutions to share its collections online, and in this post, Martina Bagnoli, the director of the ‘Gallerie Estensi’, presents the newly launched ‘Estense Digital Library’.

Title:: The Special Collection's rolling shelving in Annexe 1 at the Library Annexe, Sighthill
Date:: 2012
Institution:: University of Edinburgh
Country:: UK
Copyright:: CC BY

Webinar

Europeana Communicators webinar: Culture From Home - Libraries

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Experts from the Bibliothèque nationale de France and National and University Library in Zagreb discuss creative approaches to audience engagement during lockdown.

Title:: Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect.
Creator:: Robert Burns
Date:: 18th Century
Institution:: National Library of Scotland
Country:: United Kingdom
Copyright:: CC BY

News Created: 4 September 2018 Anette Hagan

The Rise of Literacy: contemporary relevance of libraries and literacy

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We spoke to Dr Anette Hagan, Rare Books Curator (for early printed collections to 1700) from the National Library of Scotland about what makes libraries still relevant in a contemporary society, their value for the community, and why literacy is still important today.