COURAGE

connecting collections

Die Kultur- und Umweltstiftung Leipziger Land ist neben der Medienstiftung und der Stiftung für die Region Torgau-Oschatz eine von drei Stiftungen der Sparkasse Leipzig. Ihr erklärtes Ziel ist die Bewahrung und Förderung der Natur und des kulturellen Reichtums im ehemaligen Landkreis Leipziger Land. Dazu fördert sie Einzelprojekte - unter anderem zur Arbeit mit dem Erich-Loest-Archiv, das sich in ihrem Besitz befindet.

The library, which is located in the Budapest district of Óbuda, was founded in 1985 by the Information Center for Community Culture (earlier the Information and Methodological Center of Folk Art and Public Education), which emerged from the Studio of Young Folk Artits (this workshop united the young folk-artist movement in the 1970s). In 1989, the institute became a company and was subsequently privatized. Since then, the library has been operated by a foundation. Over the last few years, the collection has become known as Hungary’s "green library." The aim of the library is to provide the foundation and other environmental organizations operating in the same building with a sufficient amount of information. The library’s main profile is literature dealing with the cultural, economic and social aspects of ecology and environmental protection. The complete stock of the library and video collection is almost 17,000 units, with the green section numbering 8,000 units. In total, the number of books and other publications is almost 14,000, while the number of translations and manuscripts is 1,000. The rest are videos and various other types of documents. Furthermore the Library contains around 3,000 units of periodicals.

The Library of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (HAZU) is primarily intended for researchers in the field of humanities and social sciences, although it is open to all citizens over the age of 18. The Library is the oldest organisational unit of HAZU, which was formed in 1861, before the Academy itself, when the first significant donation of books was recorded. The library was formally organized when the Academy was established in 1867 after the Austro-Hungarian government approved it. The library also collected archival materials and manuscripts until 1892, after which the Archives were separated from the Library. From 1949 to 2009, the Library was housed in the ground floor of the HAZU Palace. In 2009, the library moved to a new building on Strossmayer Square 14, where it is located today.

The library consists of approximately 400,000 volumes of journals and books. However, in addition to this central location, HAZU has other departments with around 150-160 thousand books. The Library coordinates with the Digital Collection of HAZU and HAZU’s digital catalogue. Through the Digital Library of the Croatian Academy of Sciences, the Library acts as a repository for other Academy units. It is a member of the Liber Association of European Research Libraries. It participated in the European project Europeana Cloud (2013-2016) and is currently coordinating the one-year project Dariah - Cooperation Framework of Digital Infrastructure in the Region.

In 2014, Dr Bojan Marotti, a staff member of HAZU’s Philosophy of Science Division of the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science, in agreement with Vedrana Juričić (director of the Library), turned the Pugwash Movement Collection over to the Library.

The Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences is based on the 30,000 volumes donated by the Academy’s first president, Count József Teleki (1790–1855), to the Learned Society in 1826. With this collection, 600 manuscript volumes and 409 incunabula (books printed before 1500) were acquired by the Library, the Department of Manuscripts of which had been an independent unit since 1861. Its first head was archaeologist and art historian Flóris Rómer (1815–1889), a full member of the Academy.

Although incunables and old Hungarian books had from the start been committed to the care of the Department, it was only in 1891 that their classification in sixteen orders was finished and a catalogue was made accessible to the public. The Department's Rare Book Division was set up in 1954. In the same year, the bulk of pre-1800 foreign and pre-1850 Hungarian books was transferred to the Department from the Library’s main stacks.

Liget Gallery is a small non-profit gallery operated by the Cultural House of the XIV. district of Budapest. Since its founding in 1983 they arranged approximately 450 exhibitions and events in the gallery or elsewhere. In the eighties they started to present solo shows of artists from the region as well as actual works from artists living in Hungary.