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The National and University Library of Iceland has launched an information web about Open Access (OA).It’s supposed to be a gateway to information about everything concerning open access, both in Iceland and abroad. Twitter account @openaccess_is has also been launched, it’s feed is accessible through openaccess.is.

In 2018 the National and University Library of Iceland celebrates 200 years since it was founded. To mark the occasion, the Library is holding a series of lunchtime lectures on its history and role. The President of Iceland, Guðni Th. Jóhannesson, opened the lecture series with the talk “Documents make a nation: the National Library and…

On November 9th 2017 The National and University Library of Iceland signed the Expression of Interest in the Large-scale Implementation of Open Access to Scholarly Journals. The Expression builds on the Berlin Declaration on Open Access (2003), signed by the Library in 2012, and the Library thus emphasizes that publicly funded research should be in…

In 2018 the National and University Library of Iceland celebrates 200 years since it was founded. To mark the occasion, the Library is holding a series of lunchtime lectures on its history and role in a wide context. The speakers will include former and present staff of the Library, writers, architects, scholars, artists and other…

Iceland Consortium (hvar.is) offers trial access to Britannica ImageQuest database from Encyclopædia Britannica. Access is national as content is available to everyone in Iceland who connects to the internet through an Icelandic Service Provider (ISP) and thus by an Icelandic IP-number. The trial access closes January 31st 2018.

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

10th Annual International Open Access Week, October 23-29, 2017. This year’s theme of “Open in Order to…” is meant to move the discussion beyond talking about openness itself and instead focus on what openness enables. Events: Wednesday, October 25, 2017 – 8:30 – 9:45The National and University Library of Iceand: Conference room: Information – the…

    New research on the history of Iceland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries   Félag um átjándu aldar fræði (the Icelandic Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies) is holding a symposium under the title New research on the history of Iceland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries  in Þjóðarbókhlaða, the library building at Arngrímsgata 3,…

On Friday, 6 October, on the birthday of poet Benedikt Gröndal, an exhibition was opened about him in the library in collaboration with the Reykjavík UNESCO City of Literature. The program began at Gröndal’s house in Fishersund, in the centre of Reykjavík, where Þórarinn Eldjárn told about a torch processsion that took place at Gröndal’s…

On Sunday September 24th at 2:00pm, Gunnar Marel Hinriksson from the National and University Library of Iceland will guide visitors (in Icelandic) through the exhibition Points of View in the Culture House in Hverfisgata.Gunnar will concentrate on witchcraft and the 17th century in his tour with special focus given to Jón Guðmundsson the Learned.There is…

On September 7th, Ásmundur Jónsson, on behalf of Bad Taste Ltd, handed over to The National Library, for possession and preservation, some posters from Bad Taste. Ingibjörg Steinunn Sverrisdóttir National Librarian and Ásmundur Jónsson signed a delivery agreement and an exhibition was opened displaying posters and other publications from the 30-year work of Bad Taste…

The activities carried out by the Icelandic Music Museum in Kópavogur and its collection will be transferred to the National Museum of Iceland and the National and University Library of Iceland on the basis of an agreement made by the city of Kópavogur, the museums and the Ministry of Education and Culture. In addition, as…