Dagnija Baltina

Director of the National Library of Latvia

Dagnija is the Director of the National Library of Latvia.

From 2008 until 2016 she served as the Secretary General at the Latvian National Commission for UNESCO and from 2009-2011 also represented the Republic of Latvia at the UNESCO Executive Board being elected its Vice-President. In 2016 she joined the National Library of Latvia as the Director of Special Collections. Since 2024 she is the Director of the National Library of Latvia.

She is interested in cultural heritage normative frameworks, national strategies for integrated heritage preservation, documentary heritage conceptual and theoretical frameworks, cultural diplomacy and cultural policy, advocating for the role of libraries. Her research interests are history of book, documentary heritage, history of sciences.