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On Wednesday 26 November the National and University Library of Iceland is holding a course in EndNote, in cooperation with the School of Humanities Writing Centre. The course will be held in the lecture hall of Þjóðarbókhlaða, the library building at Arngrímsgata 3, 12:00–13:00. The course will show how to enter references in EndNote by…

The Blue Shield formally founded in Iceland. The Icelandic National Committee of the Blue Shield was formally founded on 24 October, United Nations Day, at the National Museum of Iceland. A large group of people working in the preservation of cultural heritage came together there, with representatives of Civil Protection, ICE-SAR (Landsbjörg), the ministries and…

Félag um átjándu aldar fræði (the Icelandic Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies) is holding a symposium under the title Praise and blame of Iceland and the Icelanders in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Þjóðarbókhlaða, the library building at Arngrímsgata 3, in the lecture hall on the 2nd floor, on Saturday 18 October 2014. The symposium…

October is the month of the Pink Ribbon, the Icelandic Cancer Society’s awareness and fundraising campaign against cancer in women. To mark it, various members of staff in Þjóðarbókhlaða dressed in pink.

ÁTTAVITINN (The Compass) is a new option in the left-hand column of the Library’s website.  Among other things, it is meant to point the way to useful aids for information searching, present new resources and give guidance on using them.  Áttavitinn is still at the trial stage, and we hope to develop its content in cooperation…

To mark International Translation Day on 30 September and the European Day of Languages on 26 September, we would like to draw attention  to some  important databases that can be found in the list of Electronic resources on the Library’s website. Communication & Mass Media Complete  (CMMC) indexes the content of about 750 journals in…

On Tuesday 23 September Samtökin ’78 (the National Queer Organisation of Iceland) gave a donation of books to the Gender Studies programme and the National and University Library of Iceland at a ceremony in the lecture hall of Þjóðarbókhlaða, the library building at Arngrímsgata 3. The handover fell on International Bisexuality Day, or Bi Visibility…

Today, Tuesday 23 September, at 15:30, on International Bisexuality Day, Samtökin ’78 (the National Queer Organisation of Iceland) will give part of their library to the Gender Studies programme at the University of Iceland, to be kept at the National and University Library of Iceland. Everyone welcome!  

An exhibition commemorating the 400th anniversary of the birth of the hymn poet Hallgrímur Pétursson was opened in the National and University Library of Iceland on September 11th. The exhibition is a collaborative project of The National and University Library of Iceland and The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies. Ingibjörg Steinunn Sverrisdóttir, the National…

The Library’s introductions are now in full swing.  They are  Introductory sessions, presenting the Library’s facilities and services and its website.    They include demonstrations of the search portals Leitir.is and  Finna tímarit (Find journals).  Follow-up sessions with demonstrations of the databases of the subject concerned, going into more detail on   the main points of information searching, search…

On 22 August a cooperation agreement was signed with the Icelandic Literature Center (Miðstöð íslenskra bókmennta), with the aim of collecting the fullest possible information on the publication of Icelandic literature in languages other than Icelandic and ensuring access to it. The Center gives the Library a copy of each book that receives a translation…