The Jaromír and Dolores Šavrda Collection consists mostly of materials documenting the life and work of Jaromír Šavrda (1933–1988), a Czech journalist, writer, political prisoner and significant representative of dissent in Ostrava. Parts of the collection are, for example, Jaromír Šavrda’s biographical documents, his literary work including poetry written in prison, samizdat editions of his works as well as works written by other authors, manuscripts and typescripts of books and magazines, materials documenting his activities in dissent and his correspondence.

The exhibition ‘Lietuvos Katalikų Bažnyčios Kronikai – 40 metų’ (The 40th Anniversary of The Chronicle of the Catholic Church in Lithuania) was held on 12-26 March 2012 in the Lithuanian parliament (Seimas). The exhibition was accompanied by the international conference 'Tiesos žodis – kelias į laisvę: Lietuvos Katalikų Bažnyčios Kronika 1972–1988 metais’ (Truth as the Path to Freedom. The Chronicle of the Catholic Church in Lithuania in the Period 1972-1988), in which historians, politicians and former anti-Soviet dissidents took part. One famous guest at the conference was the well-known Russian human rights activist Sergei Kovalev, a former distributor of the Chronicle of the Catholic Church in Lithuania. The organisers of the exhibition and the conference were the Lithuanian parliament and the Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania.

The exhibition was organised by the Manuscript Department of the library (Saulius Žilys was responsible for it). The exhibition was put on to mark the tenth anniversary of Jasas’ death.

This edited volume of Žarana Papić’s writings between 1977 and 2002 represents the work of Žarana Papić from the start to the end of her research activity. In addition, the editors intended to include a wide range of issues Papić dealt with, as well as how these issues changed throughout the time she worked on them. That is why each text is briefly put into the social and cultural context in which it appeared. This brief introduction can be read as a short summary of her works.

The compilation also includes a complete bibliography of Žarana Papić’s works and two interviews with her. In the bibliography it can be seen that Papić’s texts were published in Serbian, English, German, French, Albanian, Slovak and Norwegian.

This book can be read as a comprehensive chronological representation of Žarana Papić’s theoretical work. It is significant that while reading the selected texts, from the first one in 1972 to the last in 2002, it becomes clear that the texts weave through different histories: the history of feminist movement, history of (Yugoslav/Serbian) sociology and anthropology, and ultimately the history of a fallen political system and its transformation.

Although the context and theoretical interests of Žarana Papić changed, there is a common thread linking all of her texts: the feminist perspective. In this sense this selection can be understood as an attempt to fully present the authentic testimony of a person who was feminist in thought and action and to present the development of feminism in the territory of the former Yugoslavia.

Some interviews with Vytenis Andriukaitis by the journalist Inga Liutkevičienė were published in 2012. The book Lietuviškas Imunitetas. Vytenio Povilo Andriukaičio gyvenimo interviu (Lithuanian Immunity. An Interview about the Life of Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis) includes interviews about the underground Strazdelis University, and copies and illustrations of documents about it. The whole collection is still not accessible to researchers or society, as it needs to be transferred to institutional (state) archives (Andriukaitis plans to do this in the near future), and making an inventory of the contents of the collection requires a lot of work. Because of this, the book is very useful in understanding the cultural opposition in Lithuania.

Marjan Diklić published a book about the Croatian Spring in Zadar in 2012, where "The report of the working group of the Conference of the League of Communists of Croatia - municipality of Zadar" was published for the first time.

The exhibition was organised by CNSAS (Romanian acronym for National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives) at Western University of Timișoara. The event deliberately coincided with the conference 40 Jahre Aktionsgruppe Banat: Akteure und Texte – Mitstreiter und Begleiter (40 years since the creation of Banat Action Group: Actors and texts – supporters and followers), organised by Institute for German Culture and History in South-Eastern Europe (Institut für deutsche Kultur und Geschichte Südosteuropas e.V.), which is affiliated to Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich, and Western University of Timișoara. The exhibition displayed old photos of the members of this non-conformist group of Romanian-German writers, manuscripts and publications of the writers of the group, and documents from the surveillance and investigation files issued by the Securitate. The official opening of the exhibition took place on 26 April 2012.