Flanders Heritage Library
{{Short description|Library consortium of heritage libraries in Flanders}}
Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheek or Flanders Heritage Library is a library consortium in the Flemish Region of Belgium bringing together six institutions with considerable holdings of manuscripts and old printed books.{{Cite web|url=https://www.vvbad.be/ledennetwerk/erfgoedbibliotheken/de-vlaamse-erfgoedbibliotheek|website=vvbad.be|title=De Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheek|publisher=Vlaamse Vereniging voor Bibliotheek, Archief & Documentatie|access-date=2020-05-02|archive-date=2018-03-31|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180331040519/https://www.vvbad.be/ledennetwerk/erfgoedbibliotheken/de-vlaamse-erfgoedbibliotheek|url-status=dead}} The network was founded in 2008,Steven Van Impe, "Kroniek van de Antwerpse erfgoedbibliotheken (2008–2015)", HistoriANT: Jaarboek voor Antwerpse geschiedenis, 4 (2016), pp. 175-190. and was authorised as a heritage organisation for Flanders in 2012.{{Cite web|url=http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/eli/decreet/2012/07/06/2012204732/staatsblad|author=Flemish Government|title=Decreet houdende het Vlaams cultureel-erfgoedbeleid|language=nl|date=6 July 2012|website=Belgisch Staatsblad}}
Members
The libraries associated in the network are:
- Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library in Antwerp
- Antwerp University Library
- Bruges Public Library{{Cite news|title=Openbare Bib Brugge blijft erkende erfgoedbibliotheek|newspaper=Krant van West-Vlaanderen/Brugsch Handelsblad|date=30 June 2017|page=28}}
- Ghent University Library
- Hasselt Limburg Library (the former provincial library for Limburg)
- KU Leuven University Library
Databases
The consortium is involved in building and maintaining a number of databases, most importantly:
- Abraham Catalogue of Belgian Newspapers, an online catalogue of historic Belgian newspapers (1830–1950), with many partner libraries across Flanders and Brussels
- Flandrica.be, an online repository of material from and about the area that is now Flanders, partnering with the libraries of the Antwerp Museum for Diamonds, Jewellery and Silver and the Plantin-Moretus Museum
- Short Title Catalogue Flanders (STCV), which aims to create a short-title catalogue of everything printed in the Southern Netherlands before 1801
The Flanders Heritage Library is also a partner of the Digital Library for Dutch Literature.
References
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External links
- {{url|vlaamse-erfgoedbibliotheken.be/en}}