This year many of us couldn’t travel because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Both the 2020 Baltic Heritage Network Summer School and AGM in Estonia were cancelled. For the first time in the organization’s history the Annual General Meeting of the NGO will be held online.

Very soon the National Library of Lithuania will have all issues of the Lithuanian newspaper Lietuvis [The Lithuanian] published in Ireland.

A sweeping historical event occurred 30 years ago – the Restoration of Independence. Lithuania was rarely mentioned in the Canadian press until the Iron Curtain began crumbling and glasnost began.

On Saturday August 29th, VEMU, the Museum of Estonians Abroad, took part in the vibrant pan-European tradition known as the Night of Museums. In Estonia, this is known as Muuseumiöö. It’s a celebration of the wonders of night, and the discovery of those wonders that we can find in museums.

Former Cultural Attaché of the Republic of Lithuania to Ukraine, Jurgis Giedrys, handed over the documents of the Cultural Attaché of the Diplomatic Mission of the Republic of Lithuania in Kiev to the National Library of Lithuania.

The website of the Arolsen Archives now provides access to a comprehensive specialised bibliography on the history of Displaced Persons (DPs) after 1945. Researchers are invited to actively contribute to it by informing us about relevant publications if we have not yet included them in the bibliography.

On August 17, a three-day conference of all three Baltic national libraries, “LiLaEst 2020,” took place in Lithuania. The theme of this year’s event was “Possibilities for Reusing Digitized Content.”

For the third summer in a row, the National Library of Lithuania has been contributing to the teachings of teachers of Lithuanian Saturday schools abroad organized by Vytautas Magnus University.