Anda Baklāne is a Head of Digital Research Services at the National Library of Latvia. She also teaches Literary Theory and Introduction to Digital Humanities and Digital Social Sciences at the University of Latvia. Anda holds a Master’s degree in Philosophy from the University of Latvia and is currently completing her doctoral thesis in literary studies. In her dissertation, she statistically analyses a corpus of 20th century Latvian poetry to explore the continuity, saliency, and change in the usage of temperature and weather-related concepts and metaphoric expressions in particular. As a librarian, she advocates for the continued development and wider accessibility of basic digital tools that should be provided to researchers and other learners and explorers in libraries, archives, museums, and galleries.
