Virginijus Gasiliūnas is the head of the Manuscript Division of the Library of the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore. The Manuscript Division holds 90,000 document units (manuscripts and photographs). The manuscript collection has about 66,000 units, and is divided into 109 funds. Most of the manuscript collection is made up of the personal funds of Lithuanian national activists, writers and scholars. Gasiliūnas has been the head of the Manuscript Division since 2010. He is an expert on modern Lithuanian literature, and a co-founder and editor of the independent cultural-intellectual journal Sietynas (The Chandelier), established by a group of young Lithuanian activists in 1988.