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Building bridges between ‘typically

Limburgian’ and ‘Limburg does not exist’

Barbara Beckers

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Reading room

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Academic library

Socio-economic history of Limburg

• farming

• mining industry

• creative industry

• tourism

• community organizations

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Academic library

• Monographs

• Periodicals

• Newspapers

• Grey literature

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The challenge

‘typically Limburgian’

vs

‘Limburg does not exist’

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Who we were

• 1949

• Compartmentalization

• Katholicism

• Private archives

• Grey literature

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Who we think we are

• Academia

• Professionalisation

• Migration

• Border region

• Transition

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What is needed from us

• Maastricht University: research

• Province: public outreach

• Public: regionalism, nostalgia

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How to meet those needs:

Building bridges?

• Knowledge valorisation

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Building bridges?

• Knowledge valorisation

• Diversity

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Building bridges?

• Knowledge valorisation

• Diversity

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Building bridges?

• Knowledge valorisation

• Diversity

• Irony

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Building bridges?

• Knowledge valorisation

• Diversity

• Irony

• Microhistory

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Building bridges?

• Knowledge valorisation

• Diversity

• Irony

• Microhistory

• Representation

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Building bridges?

• Knowledge valorisation

• Diversity

• Irony

• Microhistory

• Representation

• ?