Blad nr. 1 - 2007, 15. årgang - Foreningen Danmark - Letland

Lettisk Nationalbibliotek
Den lettiske ambassadør Mr. Rāznas tale ved afsløringen
af en model af nyt Lettisk Nationalbibliotek
på Diamanten
At a time when thousands of the best European minds
are preoccupied with a task to find an answer to the
question “in what way nations forming the European
Union will politically, economically and culturally live
together”, Europe continues to nourish and develop its
cultural and scientific heritage. In every capital of old
good Europe, there is a strive and effort to renew and in
modern way utilise knowledge, information and thought.
Today we stand here, in an astonishing building of the
Royal Library that so powerfully illustrates a link between
Denmark’s past and future.
From a magnificent house of the Old library, through a
glass bridge, into the Black Diamond with its transparent
glass walls.
Through the glass facades, invisible cables and information
networks, the knowledge and wisdom is obtained
and shared. This Library is an example that in our society
of information, libraries continue to play a vital and
irreplaceable role in modern Europe.
From here I raise my view over the Baltic Sea, to Riga.
To my beloved City, that after more than 800 years of
flourishing in European history, very soon will have its
own new building of the National library. We call it the
Castle of Light.
In days, as grey like these, we North Europeans appre-
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