Flanders Heritage Library

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.