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Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheek or Flanders Heritage Library is a library consortium in the Flemish Region of Belgium bringing together six institutions with considerable holdings of manuscripts and old printed books. The network was founded in 2008, and was authorised as a heritage organisation for Flanders in 2012. Members The libraries associated in the network are: Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library in Antwerp Antwerp University Library Bruges Public Library Ghent University Library Hasselt Limburg Library (the former provincial library for Limburg) KU Leuven University Library Databases The consortium is involved in building and maintaining a number of databases, most importantly: Abraham Catalogue of Belgian Newspapers, an online catalogue of historic Belgian newspapers (1830–1950), with many partner libraries across Flanders and Brussels Flandrica.be, an online repository of material from and about the area that is now Flanders, partnering with the libraries of the Antwerp Museum for Diamonds, Jewellery and Silver and the Plantin-Moretus Museum Short Title Catalogue Flanders (STCV), which aims to create a short-title catalogue of everything printed in the Southern Netherlands before 1801 The Flanders Heritage Library is also a partner of the Digital Library for Dutch Literature.