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Monday June 3 2019 a workshop on Open Access was held at the library. Keynote speakers were Colleen Campbell, OA2020 Partner Development at the Max Planck Digital Library, München and Michael Svendsen from The Royal Danish Library. 40 librarians and staff of research services from Icelandic universities attended the workshop which was organized and funded…

Lilja Alfreðsdóttir, Minister of Education, Science and Culture, visited the National and University Library of Iceland on May 28, 2019. Lilja met with the members of the board and received a tour of the library and its collections.

Alefli – Gegnir user group held its annual conference on May 23 2019 at Þjóðarbókhlaða. Landskerfi representatives updated conference guests as to the status of implementation of the new library system, Sierra. Innovative Interfaces representatives then introduced the company, its services and the new library system.

The Theatre Museum of Iceland held its last annual general meeting in Þjóðarbókhlaða on May 23 2019. The decision was made to close the museum and to form a new association of patrons of the performing arts. Sitting on the board are: Börkur Hrafn Birgisson, Lárus Vilhjálmsson and Sesselja G. Magnúsdóttir, and substitute board member…

The NING group (Nordic Information Network Gender) held their annual meeting at Þjóðarbókhlaða on May 21, 2019. The Nordic countries take turns hosting the meeting and this year‘s preparations were in the hands of Kvennasögusafn Íslands and Jafnréttisstofa. NIKK – (Nordisk Information för Kunskap om Kön, or Nordic Information on Gender) has summoned representatives from…

On May 13th 2019 the lecture The changing landscape of academic publications in a Nordic context was held at the National and University Library of Iceland. The lecture is about open access and was held by Nina Karlstrøm on behalf of NOS-HS. NOS-HS is the joint committee for Nordic research councils in the humanities and social sciences. Nina…

To mark the 100th anniversary of Ljósmæðrafélag Íslands, the Icelandic Midwives’ Association, an exhibition will open in Þjóðarbókhlaða, the library building at Arngrímsgata 3, on the International Day of the Midwife, Sunday 5 May. The Icelandic Midwives’ Association organises the exhibition in cooperation with the Women’s History Archives and the National and University Library of…

On Halldór Laxness’s birthday, 23 April, the exhibition Að vera kjur eða fara burt? (To stay or go away?) was opened. It marks the centenary of Barn náttúrunnar (Child of Nature), Halldór’s first novel. The exhibition is a joint project of the National and University Library of Iceland, Gljúfrasteinn, Reykjavík UNESCO City of Literature and…

On 24 April the National and University Library of Iceland received permission from the Directorate of Equality (Jafnréttisstofa) to use the equal pay symbol. A formal audit of the Library’s equal pay system was carried out in March 2019 by Vottun hf. The equal pay certification confirms that the Library operates a pay system that…

To mark the move of Leikminjasafn Íslands (the Icelandic Theatre Museum) to Þjóðarbókhlaða, the library building at Arngrímsgata 3, and the National Museum of Iceland, a reception was held in Þjóðarbókhlaða on Friday 8 March. The speakers went over the history of Leikminjasafn, how work on its collections is organised today, and how they see…

The Hagþenkir Award was presented at a ceremony in Þjóðarbókhlaða, the library building at Arngrímsgata 3, on 6 March. It went to Kristín Svava Tómasdóttir for her book Stund klámsins. Klám á Íslandi á tímum kynlífsbyltingarinnar (The Hour of Porn: Pornography in Iceland in the Era of the Sexual Revolution), published by Sögufélag (the Icelandic…