Lithuania marks 100th anniversary of press freedom.(SLA and the World)

Information Outlook | June 1, 2004| | Copyright

Library Week in Lithuania is a special event, indeed. We celebrate not just libraries, but the freedom to have them in the first place.

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The Lithuanian Parliament has proclaimed 2004 to be the Year of Language and Books (www.spaudos.lt) to commemorate the 100th anniversary of ending the ban on the Lithuanian press.

In 1864, the Czarist Russian authorities banned printing, publication and dissemination of books using Latin characters. Lithuanians were allowed to print and read only in Cyrillic script. The ban also applied to ...

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