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On natural science in the Age of Enlightenment Félag um átjándu aldar fræði (the Icelandic Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies) is holding a symposium under the title On natural science in the Age of Enlightenment in Þjóðarbókhlaða, the library building at Arngrímsgata 3, in the lecture hall on the 2nd floor, on Saturday 11 February 2017.…

Friday, 3 February, a collection of manuscripts by Ísólfur Palsson (1871-1941) were delivered to the National and University Library of Iceland. Ísólfur Pálsson was an organist at Stokkseyri Church in the years 1893-1912 where he conducted also choirs and quartets. He studied the making of instruments and their settings in Denmark and worked in that…

The Iceland Consortium for electronic subscriptions presents trial access to four databases on Ebscohost through March 2017, EconLit, Academic Search Ultimate, Business Source Ultimate and ebook Academic Collection. On campus please go to www.hvar.is or the library web https://landsbokasafn.is/index.php/ and search for Ebscohost. The trial databases can also be accessed directly: EconLit with Full Text http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx……

Reykjavík City Library, in cooperation with Landskerfi bókasafna (the Consortium of Icelandic Libraries), has opened Rafbókasafnið (the e-book library) at http://rafbokasafnid.is / http://rafbókasafnið.is  The aim of Rafbókasafnið is to give the public access to a wide range of e-books and audiobooks. At first the service will be available only to Reykjavík City Library borrowers, but other public libraries…

A license agreement has been reached between the The Iceland Consortium for Electronic Subscriptions and Elsevier for a nationwide access to the database Scopus.  It’s content is acailable to everyone in Iceland who connects to the internet through an Icelandic Service Provider and thus by an Icelandic IP-number. Scopus is a citations database (like Web…

A symposium in the lecture hall of the National and University Library of Iceland, Þjóðarbókhlaða, the library building at Arngrímsgata 3, on 14 January, 12:30–17:00. Programme: 12:30–12:45          Presentation of the research project “Íslenzkar þjóðsögur og ævintýri (Icelandic Folk Tales and Fairy Tales):                          …

A large number of the material that the manuscript collection receives today are private archives from the twentieth century. However, the occasional manuscript and private papers from the nineteenth and even eighteenth centuries are brought to the manuscript collection. In December, the private papers of reverend Magnús Hákonarson (1812-1875) were given to the manuscript collection,…

The Library’s new open access policy was approved by the executive board on 28 November. The Library signed the Berlin Declaration on Open Access in 2012. The policy states that the National and University Library of Iceland supports open access to material and data on the internet. The Library takes an active part in promoting open…

Today, 1 December, is the anniversary of the National and University Library of Iceland, and to mark it we are publishing a new subject guide (Áttaviti) for the Music and Audio-visual Collection http://libguides.landsbokasafn.is/content.php?pid=661665

    Icelandic humour 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 Icelandic humour in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries  in Þjóðarbókhlaða, the library building at Arngrímsgata 3, in the lecture hall on the 2nd floor, on Saturday 26…

  The Information Science programme at the University of Iceland turns 60 in the academic year 2016–2017. The milestone will be celebrated with a major conference in the lecture hall of Þjóðarbókhlaða, the library building at Arngrímsgata 3, on Friday 18 November, 9:00–17:00.   Programme Poster exhibition: throughout the conference, doctoral students in information science…

The National and University Library of Iceland receives the Icelandic Language Council’s award for the websites Tímarit.is and Bækur.is At a language conference held by the Icelandic Language Council on Tuesday 15 November 2016, under the title Tungan og netið (Language and the Internet), the council presented its awards, and the Library received one for…