The digital cultural heritage makes it possible to use widely available digital resources. Such universal digital cultural heritage information sources can include libraries, electronic library catalogues and websites that include general cultural information.

Latvia's public libraries, where computers and free Internet are available, are supported for the acquisition of various information.If you have missed the library's working time, remember that free WI-FI Internet is available at the library, within a 10-meter radius (if the building's design allows it).You can find out your nearest library by location on the portalKulturasdati.lv. You can also find information about other cultural institutions and organisations on this portal.

One of the advantages of searching for information in libraries is the possibility of consulting librarians. Such assistance can also be useful through library catalogues and databases.In the general catalogue of libraries of national importanceor on the search sitePrimolatvija.lvyou can find and order the expenses available in the Latvian National Library and University Libraries for receipt in the library, as well as access individual resources in the databases created and subscribed by these libraries.

Latvian National Digital Library(LNDB) is the largest publicly available digital storage of documentary heritage in Latvia, consisting of significant resources such as portalPeriodicity,Bookportal, collection of digitised photosLost Latvia, the historical history of Latviasound recording collection, and others recently publishedcollections. The digital library can be used with or without authorization on the portal. The materials are available for free. Some materials are protected by copyright and are available only in the Latvian National Library and in Latvian Public Libraries.

To learn more about using your digital library, see video “Latvian National Digital Library Portal”.

If you're interested in comprehensive topics or searching for specific information, such as national history, personalities, a trusted source of information isNational Encyclopedia.

You can search Latvian cultural statements in a variety of digital resources that store images, photographs, and cards.

PortalZudusilatvija.lvfor free and unchecked, you can find and look at people and cultural and historical landscapes in photographs, old drawings and openings from the second half of the 19 th century to the present. You can search for images by topics, by typing key words in the territorial location or portal search.When you sign upand when you connect to the portal, you can add your own pictures and their signatures. The portal editor will review and verify their relevance before publishing the images.

Another digital storage rich in cultural and historical photographs is a websiteRedzidzirdilatviju.lvwhich content can be viewed, transferring and printing information about photos for free and without signing up to the portal. If you want copies of your photos, you canto order in an archive. The store contains photographic documents from the collections of the Latvian National Archives, which reflect the history, events and people of Latvia, starting in the 50 th century.

The portal is a useful resource for the remote knowledge of Latvian landscapeAinavudargumi.lv. Information, photographs and indications regarding places and territories in Latvia, which have a special cultural and historical or natural value, shall be freely available on the portal free of charge.

Use the Latvian National Library card portal to view areas of interest in the Latvian map.Kartes.lnb.lv. The portal offers free access to both today's geographic cards and earlier maps and site plans.

If you are interested in some specific topics or in spending your spare time on reading literature and newspapers, you might be bound to know the digital resources of different newspapers, magazines and e-books.

Language form and topics in society change over time, but thanks to the portalPeriodika.lv, you have great opportunities to get to know the press publications of different times, reading newspapers and magazines from the middle of the 18 th century. You can search for expenses from the proposed list, by picking time, or by typing key names in the portal search. Expenses are freely available free of charge. Part of the expenditure is copyright protected and available onlyLatvian National Library (LNB)andIn Latvian Public Librariesspot on.

More about the portalPeriodika.lvlearn how to use video “Latvian National Library Portal Periodika.lv”.

PortalNews.lvpublications of Latvian national and regional newspapers, as well as news agency BNS, are available together. In the portal, you can search for articles based on the desired parameters, such as archiving articles up to 20 years old, as well as publications in a specific county. Publications will be available free of charge if you use the portal database in one of themunicipal public librariesor LNB. But to remotely use a wider range of portals, including ordering pay articles,register as a portal user.

LNB portalGramatas.lnb.lvmore than 2,500 authors' 10,000 works, from the late 17 th to the late 20 th century, are electronically available. You can search for books of interest by authors, topics, collections, or by typing key names in the portal search. Some books are copyrighted and available onlyLNBandIn Latvian Public Librariesspot on.

More about the portalGramatas.lnb.lvlearn how to use video “Latvian National Library Books Portal”.

The possibility of reading different themes and genre books electronically free of charge3 TD e-BOOK libraryavailable to registeredusers of local government public libraries. To read an e-book, youto registeron this site and must be approved as a system user in one of the municipal public libraries. You will then be able to read electronic books remotely from wherever the Internet is available.

While more and more information from digital storage can be obtained remotely free of charge without visiting the library, it should be noted that, for the time being, the broadest range of free publications is available directly at the premises of the LNB and municipal public libraries. LNB provides accessfor online subscribed databases. Several of them are also available to registered library readers outside the library. Readers can log inindividual accessand study materials, regardless of location.

Project 'Electronic publications for Latvian librarieswithin the framework of this, the public libraries of both LNB and universities and municipalities offer different electronic publications - in Latvian, English and Russian - electronic books and journals, thematic collections, scientific literature and multimedia materials. Individual electronic resources are also offered remotely to registered library users, free of charge, outside the library.

Would you like to listen to a previously popular radio show or to watch a TV show that you loved in your childhood again? You can visit the portal for this purposeDiva.lvin which cultural and historical video and audio recordings of Latvian Television and Latvian Radio are available. You can select the files available in the portal chronologically by selecting the contents of a specific year or by a specific key name that you type in the search.

A rich range of video and audio materials is also available for free on the portalRedzidzirdilatviju.lv. In the “Films” section, information is available on film journals, film chronicles and various documentary films, as well as on the power films produced in Latvia, documentaries, animations, popular science, advertising and other genre films produced by both audiovisual professionals and amateurs from 1910 to today. In the “Sound Records” section, documentaries and music recordings are available from the late 19 th century to today. The user has the option of searching for information of interest, creating document lists, watching cinema chronicles and documentaries, and listening to sound recordings that have no access restrictions. Video and sound recordings, which are not available on the portal, can be consulted in the archive of Latvian State Film Film Film Film Film Film Film Film Papers, Smerls Street 5, Riga.

To listen to historical recordings of Latvian cinema and choir music, operas, orchestra and popular music, speeches, folk songs and dance, visit the Latvian National Digital Library's historical sounds collection portalAudio.lndb.lv. You can select sound records by genre, composer, performer, and publisher.

If you are interested in Latvian cinema, visit the portalFilmas.lv- a database containing information on more than 2,500 films filmed in Latvia since the 1920 s. Movie details are available under “Movie Catalogit is also possible to watch certain Latvian films legally and free of charge in other sections of the portal. They can be seen on a computer in one of the municipalitiesfor public libraries(“Watch Libraries” in the portal) or in general education schools (“Films in Schools” section of the portal), while in the portal section “To watch Latviafilms are inserted in the portal, which can be viewed free of charge at any time and anywhere in Latvia.

If you are looking for resources for a particular topic, thematic collections for digital stocks may be a particularly suitable resource for you.

If you are interested in the history of Latvian literature, the digital collection dedicated to the literary heritage of Latvian secular content writer Gothards Friedrich Stender (1714-1796) on the portal is worth the attention.Stenders.lndb.lv. Books, articles and handwritings printed in Stander's life are available free of charge in the store.

With the unique material of Latvian cultural history – a set of texts of the Brothers' congregation, involving several thousand Vidzeme Latvian peasants in the first half of the 18 th and 19 th century, you can meet the portal for free.Braludraudze.lndb.lv. The collection includes originals of different genres, translation recyclings,transcripts and scientific comments of texts. The portal also contains information about the Brothers' congregation itself and its writers.

To explore the literary heritage of Rain and Aspasia, visit the portalRuna.lnb.lv. The collection consists of pre-published poet works with modern annotations, photographs, letters from Rain and Aspasia correspondence, film-chronicle fragments and other materials available free of charge.

If you want information about the history, progress, people, repertoire, and participants of the General Latvian Song and Dance Celebration, from their origins to today, visit the Digital Store of Song and Dance Celebrations on the portalDziesmusvetki.lndb.lv. The materials are freely available on the portal, arranged thematically and ranked over the time line. The store includes 3500 images, published editions and holiday documents, audio and video recordings.

Latvian cultural diversity can be discovered through the 99 values of Latvian cultural canon, which can be found in descriptions, illustrations, audio and video recordings in one place free of charge on the portal.Kulturaskanons.lv. The digital version of the original cabinet of Dina, which is one of the values of the Latvian cultural canon, is viewed on the portal.Dainuskapis.lv.

Latvian folklore storage (LFK) digital archiveGaramantas.lvmanuscripts, images, audio and video recordings and other valuable collections of folklore materials are available and used online for free. You have the opportunity to engage in the development of digital content by helping to decipher manuscripts, translating them into other languages, recognizing and clarifying people and places seen in photographs, helping to identify the personalities of the folklore signers and purposers.

A universal assistant to searching for information and revealing interesting cultural facts is a portalLetonika.lv. It offers free of charge a variety of encyclopedia and dictionaries, as well as works of authors who are not protected by copyright in the portal reading room. The availability of individual authors of the portal reading room, as well as, for example, multimedia, requires:subscription Charges. In allmunicipal public librariesreference resourceLetonika.lvcitizens are free of charge, while public library registered usersLetonika.lvcan also be used remotely for free.Letonika.lvyou may have subscribed to schools, which means that resources can be available free of charge.

If you're studying, doing research, or just interested in different academic sources of information, visit the portalAcademia.lndb.lv. Academic works developed in Latvia are available together in the repository. You can select publications by type, industry, institution, and language, or search by typing key names in the portal search.

Archives are an appropriate resource if you are looking for specific information about yourself or your forefathers, such as work, training, real estate ownership, citizenship, army of services, etc. This information may be requested as archive Statement or search independently for archival documents on site archive reading rooms. If you know exactly what document you are looking for and want to make sure that it is in the archive, you can start the search using Latvian State Archives Database in which descriptions of archive funds and files are available or the single Latvian National Archives search “MeklēLNA”. If you have found the document you are looking for in the database, before going to the particular reading room contact the archive and find out the actual availability of the document and its location.

Many archival documents are available remotely and at any time thanks to their digitisation. Therefore, it is appropriate to first check electronically available documents before going to the archive, as this may speed up the process of obtaining information.

Electronic databases created by the Latvian National Archives are available together in the archive portal www.eresursi.arhivi.gov.lv.

If you want to explore your family history, use the portalLvva-raduraksti.lvthe options offered. Digitised documents, church books, 18-19 th-century soul audits, population census materials and other documents to be used for building a family tree are available free of charge. The Latvian database is also available (20 th century). 20-30 years), as well as other archive documents – maps, archives of Riga Blackheads Society, etc. For data access, you must register as a system user when filling inregistration form.

Created by the Latvian State ArchivesList of Latvians deportedit shall be possible to check whether your relatives or any other people known to you have been among the people of Latvia who have been deported. The check is free and should be performed by entering the names and names of the persons in the portal seeker.

 

To view archive documents that cover a wider area than Latvia now, visit the “cross-border e-archive” portalEarchive-estlatrus.eu. The 19 th century documents from the Estonian, Latvian and Russian archives can be consulted online for free. The portal includes files, cards, church books and various other documents of students and handlers of the higher education institutions of Tartu, Riga and St. Petersburg. You can search for documents of interest by using a selection filter or by typing key names in the portal search.

 

Exploring the passages of life of certain past personalities can be helpful to look intoUniversity of Latvia student databasein which information is available free of charge regarding persons who have commenced studies at the University of Latvia in 1919-1944, and the documents of which can be found in the Archives of the State History of Latvia.

 

Maintained by the National Archives of LatviaLPSR in the archive of KGB documentsit is possible to consult without charge the documents which indicate the activities of the National Security Committee of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Latvia (KGB) during the occupation of Latvia. The documents available in the archive contain the names of persons who were somehow involved in the activities of the KGB. Much of the documents are in Russian and handwriting. Individual documents are only available in the archive to registered users. For example, a file for KGB operational personnel. We recommend that you familiarize yourself with the portal before you explore the documentsfor consumables.

 

Latvia can be proud ofNational Museums Stock Cataloguein which each interested party has the possibility to inspect the items of stocks of Latvian accredited museums (State, local government and private/autonomous museums) freely. A large proportion of items not available at permanent exposures and exhibitions are also covered by the joint catalogue. You can find items by their type, museum, collections, or by typing key names in a collective catalog search.

 

Similarly, free mobile apps have been created for individual museums (Latvian National Museum of Art and Zan Lipke Memorial Museum), where information about museums is available and exhibits can be viewed.Mobile app of Latvian National Museum of Artis like an interactive guide who helps you get to know the museum building and look at the exposures. Mobile app can be downloaded on siteGoogleplayandAppStore.

 

Zan Lipke Memorial Museum offers free mobile appJean Lipke Memorialintended for use at the same time as the visit to the museum. The app, as an audio and video guide at specific locations of the museum, tells 16 stories of events that have occurred during World War II, and describes the concept and architecture of the museum. App download possible on siteshttp://www.lipke.lv/iosandGoogleplay.

Cultural monuments are cultural and historical landscapes, separate territories, buildings, artworks, equipment and objects having historical, scientific, artistic or other cultural value.

Being informed of cultural monuments in nearby areas can be both interesting and practical.In the State Register of Protected Cultural Monumentsit is possible to find out free of charge which Latvian buildings, parts thereof and landscapes have the appropriate status of cultural monuments. If you want to check the status of a specific object in Riga, you can also use Riga City Construction Board for free.Cultural Monument Seekerin which, when entering an address and/or cadastre number, it is possible to find out whether the object has not been granted the status of the cultural monument.

1. Infographic “Digital Cultural Heritage”.
2. Free translation platform tailored specifically for Latvian -Hugo.lv.
3. Fee service available for digitisation of expenditures or parts thereof selected from the Latvian National Library -Digitisation of broadcasting on demand.
4. Latvian National Archives Charge Service -Making copies of archive documents.
5. Assistant in studying family history and building a family tree -Ciltskoki.lv.
6. Information regarding the masters of traditional positions in Latvia and the possibility of acquiring their occupational skills -Satiecsavumeistaru.lv.
7. Valuable information about the origins of the Latvian folk costume, the traditions of assembly and wear -Katramsavutautasterpu.lv.

1. Ministry of Culture (KM)
2. Latvian National Library (LNB)
3. Cultural Information Systems Centre (KISC)
4. Latvian National Archives (LNA)
5. National Heritage Administration (NKMP)
6. Latvian National Culture Centre (LNKC)
7. National Film Centre (NKC)
8. Riga City Construction Board (RPBV)

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