About

Anita Eichinger, Librarian, Philosopher, is Director of the Vienna City Library since 2019. Before that she was head of “Digital Services” and started retrodigitisation projects and built up the Digital Library, she also played a key role in setting up the Wien Geschichte Wiki in 2013. She published several articles on Cultural Heritage, Libraries and Digitalization. The latest: Anita Eichinger und Katharina Prager: We Are Needed More Than Ever: Cultural Heritage, Libraries and Archives, in: Hannes Werthner/ Erich Prem / Edward A. Lee / Carlo Ghezzi (Hg.): Perspectives on Digital Humanism. Heidelberg: Springer 2022, 109–114