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On Wednesday 18 May Elisabet Björklund gave the letters of her grandmother, Nanna Boëthius, to the Manuscript Collection of the National and University Library of Iceland. Nanna was Sigurður Nordal’s first wife. Her collection of letters holds many letters from Sigurður, but also from Björg C. Þorláksson and Einar H. Kvaran. Lars Lönnroth, former professor,…

The journal International Journal of Heritage Studies is now available online on the University Network, from the 1997 volume onwards. The International Journal of Heritage Studies is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal in ethnology, anthropology and museum studies, published by Taylor & Francis. View the journal

The Icelandic Literary Society celebrates its bicentennial in 2016. On Thursday May 12th, at 14 PM an exhibition opened at the National and University Library of Iceland. Jón Sigurðsson, president of the Icelandic Literary Society and Ingibjörg Steinunn Sverrisdóttir National Librarian, addressed the guests and the president of Iceland, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson opened the exhibition.…

A subject guide (Áttaviti) has been made on Skemman, with, among other things, guidance on submitting work to Skemman; see:   

On Wednesday 4 May Gunnar Örn Hannesson, historian and archivist at the National Archives of Iceland, will give the talk “On watermarks in some Icelandic paper letters from the 17th century” in the lecture series Íslensk bóksaga (Icelandic Book History), held in the lecture hall of Þjóðarbókhlaða, the library building at Arngrímsgata 3, 12:05–12:45. The…

Please note that the following libraries have made an institutional agreement for access to the Oxford Music Online database: National and University Library of IcelandHafnarfjörður LibraryIceland University of the Arts LibraryRÚV Library Oxford Music Online is now available on all the IP addresses of these libraries, and no longer through national access as before. 

Inn á græna skóga [Into the green woods] – an exhibition of Snorri Hjartarson’s poetry At four o’clock on Friday the 22nd of April an exhibition of Snorri Hjartarson’s poetry was opened in the library. On the same occasion the publishing house Forlagið celebrated the publication of Hjartarsons’s  3rd edtion of his Poetry Collection. Many…

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The 2016 IIPC (International Internet Preservation Consortium) General Assembly is hosted by the National and University Library of Iceland and taking place at Radisson Blu Saga Hotel Reykjavík from Monday 11 April to Friday 15 April 2016. View Event Website Follow on twitter: @NetPreserve#iipcWAC16

On Wednesday 6 April Ingibjörg Eyþórsdóttir, doctoral student in Icelandic literature,  will give the talk “Two hymnbooks from the vault of Þjóðarbókhlaða – Lbs 524 4to and Lbs 1927 4to, or Hymnodia Sacra” in the lecture series Íslensk bóksaga (Icelandic Book History), held in the lecture hall of Þjóðarbókhlaða, the library building at Arngrímsgata 3,…

Professor Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson talked about open access from the point of view of a university teacher at the annual meeting of the Iceland Consortium for Electronic Subscriptions, held in the lecture hall of the National and University Library of Iceland, Arngrímsgata, on Friday 18 March at 15:00 Agenda: 1. Professor Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson talks about open…

Here at the National and University Library of Iceland, Haukur Hallsteinsson, Bára Steinunn Jónasdóttir and Kristin Søberg Henriksen took part of their journeyman’s examination in bookbinding. They were under the devoted guidance of Stefán Jón, the Library’s head bookbinder, who also taught them during their training.