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On Saturday 9 February two exhibitions were opened in the Library and a symposium was held on Hafsteinn Guðmundsson. Eight talks were given, and Hafsteinn’s son Guðmundur gave a short speech and presented the Library with his father’s drawings. The hall was packed, and the talks and exhibitions were well received.  

On Saturday 7 February, 13:00–16:00, a symposium on Hafsteinn Guðmundsson will be held in Þjóðarbókhlaða, the library building at Arngrímsgata 3, and an exhibition on his life’s work will open. The exhibition Prentsmiðjueintök (Printers’ copies) will also open. Symposium programme: Svanur Jóhannesson on printing works in Iceland and his acquaintance with Hafsteinn Bragi Þórðarson working for Hafsteinn…

On Thursday 5 February, 12:00–13:00, the National and University Library of Iceland will offer University of Iceland students and staff a course in the reference management program EndNote. The course will show how to enter references in EndNote by hand and how to import them from databases such as leitir.is, Ebsco, ProQuest and Web of…

The National and University Library of Iceland is holding a session on information searching in the meeting room of Þjóðarbókhlaða, the library building at Arngrímsgata 3, on Thursday 29 January, 12:00–13:00. The session is held in cooperation with the School of Humanities Writing Centre. There will be demonstrations of Leitir.is and the journal list Finna…

On Sunday 25 January the exhibition Á aðventu 1994 (In Advent 1994) by the National Collection closes. A micro-exhibition there on translations of the books of Arnaldur Indriðason and Auður Ólafsdóttir also closes. The exhibition Tryggvi Magnússon og skjaldarmerkið (Tryggvi Magnússon and the coat of arms) closes a week later, on 1 February.

On the twentieth anniversary of the library December 1 2014 a website was opened containing the Icelandic bibliography 1534-1844. The history of this bibliography can be traced to the middle of the last century when work began in the National Library of Iceland to make a bibliographic record of all publications by Icelandic authors, works…

Until the end of March there is nationwide access to the full texts of 330 e-journals from Cambridge University Press, from 2010 to the present day. The journals cover many fields, such as agriculture, zoology, archaeology, anthropology, biology, biotechnology, management, computer science, environmental science, economics, engineering, history, law, literature, mathematics, medicine and health sciences, music, nutrition, philosophy, physics, political…

The National and University Library of Iceland is taking part in the events marking the centenary of women’s suffrage with a major exhibition that will open on 16 May 2015. The first event organised by the anniversary committee, and a prelude to the anniversary year, is a staged reading at Iðnó on 30 December at…

To mark 20 years since the National and University Library of Iceland opened in Þjóðarbókhlaða, the library building at Arngrímsgata 3, two exhibitions were opened on 1 December, Tryggvi Magnússon og skjaldarmerkið (Tryggvi Magnússon and the coat of arms) and Á aðventu 1994 (In Advent 1994). Three of the Library’s projects were also presented: Hljóðsafn,…

The family of the university teacher Jón Rúnar Gunnarsson has given the National and University Library of Iceland a generous donation of books from his library. Jón studied in Czechoslovakia, Poland and Norway and took a mag. art. degree in  Indo-European comparative linguistics and a cand. mag. degree in Ancient Greek and Latin. He was…

On Friday 21 November the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation adopted an open access policy covering all research funded by the foundation. The policy takes effect on 1 January 2015. The foundation is one of the very largest American funders. The policy covers not only the results of funded research but also the research data…

The Library’s new board met today. Its members are Ágústa Guðmundsdóttir, chair; Elín Soffía Ólafsdóttir and Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson, representing the University of Iceland; Sveinn Ólafsson, representing Upplýsing (the Icelandic Library and Information Science Association); Kristín Svavarsdóttir, from the Science and Technology Policy Council; Hrafn Loftsson, from the universities’ joint committee; and Rósa Bjarnadóttir, representing the…