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On January 24th, The Hungarian Cultural Society in Iceland donated a collection of books to The National and University Library. The collection includes Hungarian literature and books about history and culture, both in Hungarian and English. The donation is part of a series of events held by the Hungarian Cultural Society. The Hungarian ambassador was…

It is now 100 years since publication began of the catalogue of the National Library’s manuscript collection: the first part of the catalogue came out in December 1918. Tíminn wrote on 28 December: “Until now the manuscript collection has been a hidden treasure. No one has known fully what was to be found there. The…

On Thursday 6 December the historian and poet Kristín Svava Tómasdóttir will give the talk “Raw material and stories: on Steindór Sigurðsson at the National and University Library of Iceland” in the lecture series Tímanna safn (Collection of the Ages), held to mark the 200th anniversary of the National and University Library of Iceland. In…

On Thursday 1 November Hilma Gunnarsdóttir, librarian and information specialist in information services and user education at the National and University Library of Iceland, will give the talk “The library of the 21st century: the role of librarians and information specialists today” in the lecture series Tímanna safn (Collection of the Ages), held to mark…

A symposium in memory of Halldór Hermannsson, curator at the Fiske Icelandic Collection at Cornell University in the United States will be held in the lecture hall of the National and University Library of Iceland 11-12. October. The symposium is held to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the National and University Library of Iceland, in collaboration with…

To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the National and University Library of Iceland, the Iceland Post issued a National Library of Iceland stamp on February 15th 2018.  Further information

The National and University Library of Iceland is 200 years old this year: its official birthday is taken to be 28 August. This makes the Library one of the oldest institutions in the country. The anniversary is being celebrated all year, and the Library is holding a wide range of events, as well as taking…

A memorial walk connected with the exhibition on Guðrún Lárusdóttir in Þjóðarbókhlaða, the library building at Arngrímsgata 3, “En tíminn skundaði burt…” (But time hurried away…), will take place on Monday 27 August at 16:00, the day of the funeral of Guðrún Lárusdóttir and her two daughters, Guðrún Valgerður and Sigrún Kristín, who died with…

Among the events of Culture Night on 18 August 2018 was the micro-exhibition Frummynd/fjölfeldi (Original/Multiple) in the Culture House, Hverfisgata 15. The exhibition, with original works and artists’ books by the artists Halla Birgisdóttir, Ólöf Björk Ingólfsdóttir and Steinunn Önnudóttir, will be open until Monday 27 August. The event is the first in the programme of…

The Summer school in manuscript studies is a collaboration between the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, the University of Iceland, the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics at the University of Copenhagen and the National and University Library of Iceland. The school is held on August 1st-10th with over 60 students from various countries.…

Sigrún Júlíusdóttir, former professor at the University of Iceland and chairman of the Board of the Research Center for Children and Family Protection, handed on 14 June over to the National library a large part of her book collection. It is a collection with social welfare expertise, reflecting a wide range of subjects. Additionally, there…

32. Conference of European National Librarians took place in Reykjavík Iceland 4th and 5th of June 2018, and in addition the group went for a day trip to Þingvellir and visited Gljúfrasteinn, the home of the author Halldór Laxness on June 3rd.