Tag: Lambert Heller
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Libraries: Safeguards of Democracy?
Libraries – Safeguards of Democracy …or are they? What happens when an institution built to safeguard democracy becomes part of the threat to it? This question drives Save Troy: Liberate The Library, a short essay I wrote for Bibliothek & Gesellschaft (Libraries & Society), a newly launched book series published by Brill De Gruyter. Its…
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Building Transnational Queer & Trans+ Connections
By Michael Radmacher, Transgender Archives Metadata Librarian A popular storytelling mechanism begins the story at the end of the tale. But what if the story doesn’t have an ending? This conundrum may be the point of Kula: Library Futures Academy, to be a catalyst for beginnings, not endings. So, for now, let’s buck the storytelling…
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KULA Postdoctoral Fellow Awarded Hannah Arendt Fellowship
Kula: Library Futures Academy is pleased to announce that Nathaniel Brunt, VPRI Aspiration 2030 & Kula Postdoctoral Fellow, has received the prestigious 2026 Hannah Arendt Fellowship awarded by the German state of Lower Saxony and funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. The grant application was sponsored by German librarian Lambert Heller, Head of the Open Science…
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Lambert Heller Awarded Inaugural International Visiting Fellowship
By Christian Schmidt, Kula Librarian Research Associate. In July 2025, Kula welcomed German librarian Lambert Heller as its first Visiting International Fellow. Lambert leads the Open Science Lab at Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology (TIB) Hanover, the world’s largest library for technology and natural sciences. His team develops open-source software, researches digital infrastructure,…