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On Tuesday 24 November at 12:05 two talks on avant-garde poetry, print experiments and artists’ books in the 20th century will be given in the lecture hall of Þjóðarbókhlaða, the library building at Arngrímsgata 3, in connection with the exhibition “dadadieterdúr – samruni orðlistar og myndlistar” (dadadieterdúr – the fusion of verbal and visual art):…

For a short time there is trial access to the database SPORTDiscus with Full Text which indexes and provides full -text content of nearly 670 journals on sports and sports medicine. The access is on our homepage for the EbscoHost databases and is open on the University network.

On Tuesday 17 November at 12:05 two talks on avant-garde poetry, print experiments and artists’ books in the 20th century will be given in the lecture hall of Þjóðarbókhlaða, the library building at Arngrímsgata 3, in connection with the exhibition “dadadieterdúr – samruni orðlistar og myndlistar” (dadadieterdúr – the fusion of verbal and visual art):…

Open access to research results has been prominent in debate in recent years.  In Iceland, universities such as the University of Iceland, Bifröst University and Reykjavík University, and various institutions such as Landspítali – The National University Hospital of Iceland and Rannís, have adopted open access policies. The next step in this debate is open…

On Wednesday 4 November Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon, Professor of Cultural History at the University of Iceland, will give the talk “Sparðatíningur (Nitpicking): barefoot historians and knowledge” 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.

On 1 November it is 75 years since the University Library was founded. The Main Building of the University of Iceland was inaugurated on 17 June 1940, and later that year the library was given a place in its rear wing. The libraries of the University of Iceland’s faculties of theology, medicine and law were…

You are welcome to the opening of an exhibition in Þjóðarbókhlaða, the library building at Arngrímsgata 3, on Tuesday 27 October at 17:00, marking 60 years since Halldór Laxness received the Nobel Prize in Literature. Programme: National Librarian Ingibjörg Steinunn Sverrisdóttir welcomes the guests Halldór Laxness’s speech. The actor Þór Tulinius reads the first part…

Ingibjörg Steinunn Sverrisdóttir opens the conference; see the programme 

Memory, narrative and oral history The Oral History Centre (Miðstöð munnlegrar sögu) and the Institute of History at the University of Iceland are holding a symposium in Þjóðarbókhlaða, the library building at Arngrímsgata 3, on 8 October, 14:00–16:30, under the title Memory, narrative and oral history. The symposium will discuss the interplay of memory, memories…

On Wednesday 7 October Halldóra Kristinsdóttir and Sigríður Hjördís Jörundsdóttir will give the talk “On the margins of society: outsiders in the Manuscript Collection” 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 abstract of the talk says: “In summer 2013 an…

Today, Friday 2 October, the second day of the Reykjavík Reading Festival, an open symposium will be held on the possible future of books in Icelandic in a digital world. The symposium is a joint project of the Writers’ Union of Iceland, the Icelandic Publishers Association, Hagþenkir (Association of Writers of Non-fiction and Educational Material),…

On Thursday 1 October, 16:00–18:00, an exhibition will open in Þjóðarbókhlaða, the library building at Arngrímsgata 3, to mark the retirement of Professor Trausti Valsson and the publication of his professional memoir “Mótun framtíðar” (Shaping the Future). Programme: National Librarian Ingibjörg Steinunn Sverrisdóttir welcomes the guests Opening address by Prime Minister Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson                                                      Hilmar…