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The 2016 Hagþenki Award was presented at the National Library at a ceremony on Wednesday, March 1st, and was received by Viðar Hreinsson for the book… Read More » 2016 Hagþenki Award

From Natural Sciences to the Information Age The Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies is holding a symposium entitled From Natural Sciences to the Information Age in the National Library, Lecture Hall… Read More » Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

On Friday, February 3, the manuscripts of Ísólfur Pálsson (1871-1941) were handed over to the National Library of Iceland – University Library. Ísólfur was the organist at Stokkseyri Church in the years… Read More » Ísólfur Pálsson's manuscripts handed over to the National Library of Iceland – University Library

Reykjavík City Library, in collaboration with the National Library System, has opened the Electronic Library on the domain http://rafbokasafnid.is / http://rafbókasafnid.is The goal of the Electronic Library is to offer the public… Read More » Electronic Library opened

We would like to draw your attention to experimental access to various databases from Ebsco during the first three months of 2017, only on the university network. It should be emphasized that… Read More » Ebsco databases in experimental access

Agreements have been reached on sponsored national access to the Scopus database, and the access is based on the IP addresses of Icelandic internet providers, and is therefore access… Read More » Scopus in sponsored national access

A large portion of the data received by the manuscript collection each year are private archives from the twentieth century. It is generally believed that… Read More » Sermons and Passion Hymns from Previous Centuries

Seminar held in the lecture hall of the National Library of Iceland – University Library, National Library on January 14th at 12:30–17:00. Program: 12:30–12:45 Presentation of the research project “Icelandic Folktales… Read More » Seminar: Icelandic Folktales and Fairy Tales: Origin, Context and Collection

The museum's new open access policy was approved by the Executive Board on November 28. The museum became a party to the Berlin Declaration in 2012.… Read More » Open Access Policy

Today, December 1st, the National Library of Iceland–University Library celebrates its anniversary and on that occasion we are publishing a new Compass for the Audio and Video Library… Read More » Compass for the Audio and Video Library