Flanders Heritage Library

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.^[1] The network was founded in 2008,^[2] and was authorised as a heritage organisation for Flanders in 2012.^[3]

Members

The libraries associated in the network are:

Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library in Antwerp
Antwerp University Library
Bruges Public Library^[4]
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

^ "De Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheek". vvbad.be. Vlaamse Vereniging voor Bibliotheek, Archief & Documentatie. Archived from the original on 2018-03-31. Retrieved 2020-05-02.
^ Steven Van Impe, "Kroniek van de Antwerpse erfgoedbibliotheken (2008–2015)", HistoriANT: Jaarboek voor Antwerpse geschiedenis, 4 (2016), pp. 175-190.
^ Flemish Government (6 July 2012). "Decreet houdende het Vlaams cultureel-erfgoedbeleid". Belgisch Staatsblad (in Dutch).
^ "Openbare Bib Brugge blijft erkende erfgoedbibliotheek". Krant van West-Vlaanderen/Brugsch Handelsblad. 30 June 2017. p. 28.