Venue and Location
National and University Library of Slovenia
National and University Library of Slovenia (NUK) organizes the TPDL2024 as one of the important conferences in the series of national and international events to be organized by our institution on its 250th anniversary in 2024. By organizing TPDL2024 in Ljubljana we tend to celebrate not only the historical perspective of our existence, but also digitized and digitally born written cultural heritage growing ever stronger in the last two decades.
NUK is the Slovenian national library, the central state library and the university library of the University of Ljubljana, the national aggregator of e-content for Europeana and home of the Digital library of Slovenia. As GLAM institution it collects, documents, preserves and archives the written cultural and scientific heritage of the Slovenian nation. It provides ready access to knowledge and culture of the past and present Slovenian generations. In collaboration with national and international libraries, it enables access to the world’s written cultural and scientific heritage. In the process of creating new knowledge, it helps its users to search, select, evaluate and use information resources in different formats, forms and languages. Its collections and services support scholarly and scientific work of the Ljubljana University and other higher education institutions.
NUK is also a research institution, hosting research and IT development center, it is a center of knowledge aimed at lifelong education of the Slovenian people, and at raising their cultural and educational level and information literacy skills. Through research, development and educational activities in the field of librarianship, information science and book history, the library is actively co-shaping Slovenian library system, and makes significant contributions to theoretical and practical knowledge of library and information science.
Ljubljana
Ljubljana, Slovenia, 20 km from Ljubljana airport, cultural and scientific capital city center, administrative center of Slovenia, historical (Ljubljana Castle, old town, Roman archaeology), touristic and vivid place (music, market, street life, escape rooms), with restaurants and bars (local, mediterranean, international), galleries (National gallery, Modern Gallery and Cukrarna, private and public small galleries), museums (National museum, Ethnographic museum, City museum, special thematic museums), archives (National archive, City archive, Historical archive).