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National Library of Iceland stamp

To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the National and University Library of Iceland, the Iceland Post issued a National Library...

Winter opening hours starts Monday August 27th

Summer school in manuscript studies August 1st-10th 2018

The Summer school in manuscript studies is a collaboration between the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, the...

Book presentation of Sigrún Júlíusdóttir

Sigrún Júlíusdóttir, former professor at the University of Iceland and chairman of the Board of the Research Center for...

Conference of European National Librarians 4th and 5th of June 2018

32. Conference of European National Librarians took place in Reykjavík Iceland 4th and 5th of June 2018, and in addition the group...

Summer opening hours from May 11th

  Opening hours from May 11th to August 26th Monday - Friday        9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Saturday                  10...

Exhibition on Edda II by Jóns Leifs

On March 14th, an exhibition was opened at the National Library in collaboration with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra on the...

Open Access information web

The National and University Library of Iceland has launched an information web about Open Access (OA). It´s supposed to be a...

Signature of OA2020 Expression of Interest

On November 9th 2017 The National and University Library of Iceland signed the Expression of Interest in the Large-scale...

Britannica ImageQuest trial access

Iceland Consortium ( hvar.is ) offers trial access to Britannica  ImageQuest  database from  Encyclopædia Britannica . Access is...

New link on the library web: Contact

Contact is a new link (at the Menu bar) on the library web. On the site users find: Web chat to chat online to...

Open Access Week - events

10th Annual International Open Access Week, October 23-29, 2017. This year’s theme of “Open in Order to…” is meant to move the...

Exhibition and torch processsion in honor of poet Benedikt Gröndal

On Friday, 6 October, on the birthday of poet Benedikt Gröndal, an exhibition was opened about him in the library in...

Guidance in the Culture House

On Sunday September 24th at 2:00pm, Gunnar Marel Hinriksson from the National and University Library of Iceland will guide visitors...

Agreement on the delivery of posters from Bad Taste

On September 7th, Ásmundur Jónsson, on behalf of Bad Taste Ltd, handed over to The National Library, for possession and...

Winter opening hours starts Monday August 28th

Winter opening hours: Monday - Thursday 8:15 a.m. - 10:00 p.m. Friday 8:15 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. Saturday 10:00...

The activities and collections of the Icelandic Music Museum transferred to the National Museum of Iceland and the National and University Library of Iceland

      The activities carried out by the Icelandic Music Museum in Kópavogur and its collection will be transferred...

Exhibition about composer Sigvaldi Kaldalóns opened

An exhibition about composer Sigvaldi Kaldalóns was opened at the National Library 24 May. The exhibition is in...

Sigurður Pálsson received the May Star Prize

  The National and University Library of Iceland and The Writers´ Union of Iceland have established a new prize...

Maístjarnan (May Star) - a new poetry book prize

  The National and University Library of Iceland and the Writers' Union of Iceland have established a new poetry book...

2017 IFLA International News Media Confrence

Conference in National and University Library of Iceland April 27-28, 2017 The National and University Library of Iceland...