The European project aiming at valorizing cultural plurality. The case of the LBUS Library in the Europeana Cloud
The European project aiming at valorizing cultural plurality. The case of the LBUS Library in the Europeana Cloud
The LBUS Library is the only contributor of Romania in the Europeana Cloud project (2013-2015), participating with two digital collections that are illustrating the ethnic multicultural coexistence in the history of Sibiu. Culture has become a priority on the EU agenda when it was understood that the European integration depends mainly on the cultural integration and the national identity was considered to be the social cohesion vector by rediscovering the cultural and historical values, having the motto “unity in diversity”. This paper is an attempt to reflect the common past of the Romanians, Germans and Hungarians in Transylvania, in the 18th and 19th centuries, reflected in several works, included in the collection “Sibiu – Historical and multicultural coexistence”, the contribution of the LBUS to the Europeana Digital Library.
Keywords : Transylvania, multicultural coexistence, history of Sibiu, the Orthodox Church, cultural development, digital library, Europeana Cloud, European Union
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