The autumn edition of the Baltic Heritage Network quarterly newsletter is now available. In these pages, you will find information about our past and future events, new publications, and what is happening across the globe within the diaspora research and archive communities.

This summer, the National Library of Lithuania hosted a talk on how to search for Lithuanian data in US archives and genealogical websites presented by Karilė Vaitkutė, head of the Genealogy Department at the Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture in Chicago (USA).

This summer, the National Library of Lithuania once again invited the participants of the Lithuanian Studies Summer Courses organized by Vytautas Magnus University. The Library has been inviting the participants of these courses for several years now, to discuss topics of interest to teachers, to share their experience and concerns, and to listen to lectures presented by the library experts.

Several dozen books on Lithuanian and Judaica subjects were added to the collections of the National Library of Lithuania. All of them were donated by Donatas Januta, a Lithuanian American lawyer, who visited the Library at the end of this summer.

On July 13-18, 2023, Prof. Dr. Renaldas Gudauskas, Director General of the National Library of Lithuania, visited the United States of America. The main purpose of the visit was to participate in the commemoration of the 90th anniversary of the flight of two Lithuanian American pilots, Steponas Darius and Stasys Girėnas, across the Atlantic.

This year, Lithuanian American Nijolė Bražėnaitė-Lukšienė-Paronetto turned hundred years old. On this occasion, the National Library of Lithuania invited Nijolė’s friends and all those interested to an evening to commemorate this anniversary. The event featured a presentation of the book “Apie anuos nepamirštamus laikus: Juozo Lukšos-Daumanto ir Nijolės Bražėnaitės susirašinėjimas” (About Those Unforgettable Times: The Correspondence between Juozas Lukša-Daumantas and Nijolė Bražėnaitė) compiled by Laima Vincė.

On July 15, 2023, on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the flight of the legendary pilots, Steponas Darius and Stasys Girėnas, an interactive exhibition by the National Library of Lithuania was opened at the Čiurlionis Gallery in Chicago (USA).

The summer edition of the Baltic Heritage Network quarterly newsletter is now available. In these pages, you will find information about our past and future events, new publications, and what is happening across the globe within the diaspora research and archive communities.