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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.

  I am very pleased to introduce to you our new Estonian Archives in Australia website.

The Estonian Archives in Australia was looking to ‘rebrand’ to help increase their awareness in the community, especially with the younger generation who are less aware of its purposes.

On July 17, 2020, the Day of Lithuanian Unity in the World, the National Library of Lithuania presented a new virtual exhibition dedicated to the Lithuanian press abroad after 1990.

Covid-19 has changed life for most of us. VEMU, the Museum of Estonians Abroad in Canada is no exception here. Due to the need to restrict the spread of the COVID-19 virus, the management of Tartu College, our home, has decided to keep the G-floor (including the Hall, fraternities’ rooms, the library) and archival depositories on B2 floor closed to the public until June 15, 2020.

TLPA is a non-profit organisation founded in 1972. In 1974 the Association was granted a privilege document – Charter. We use the name Latvian Senior Citizens Association in Metro Toronto for correspondence with the government. Its first location was at the Latvian House on College Street in midtown Toronto. In its present location at the Latvian Centre it resides since 1994.

The year 2020 has become more special than ever imagined. An emergency situation has been in place in Canada and in other parts of the world for some time and the end is not yet in sight. Restrictions have changed our everyday lives and coping mechanisms.

The end of WWII did not bring freedom and liberation for all countries and nations. Central and Eastern Europe fell into the grip of the Soviets and found itself isolated from the free world.

This April, the National Library of Lithuania invited book lovers to participate in a competition “The World on My Bookshelf” and to present their favorite books by writing a book annotation. Readers were invited to describe a book they liked and those who were unwilling or lazy to write to photograph or film their bookshelves.