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It is now 50 years since the record company SG-hljómplötur was founded. To mark the occasion, a small exhibition has been set up in the Library. SG-hljómplötur was the record company of the musician and broadcaster Svavar Gests (1926–1996), who founded it in 1964. In the 20 years it operated, the company released 80 small…

All the colours of the rainbow in books at the Library during Reykjavík Pride (Hinsegin dagar).  To mark the occasion we have put out a display of colourful books.

Today, 5 August, is the last day of the exhibition Nordic Bookbinding 2013 (Norrænt bókband). This time there are 80 participants, 13 of them Icelanders, and two of them receive honourable mentions: Hrefna Ársælsdóttir and Ragnar Gylfi Einarsson. From here the exhibition goes to Gothenburg, where it will open at the Röhsska Museum on 2…

From today, 28 July, the National and University Library of Iceland will publish selected headlines from Icelandic newspapers of a hundred years ago on the website Tímarit.is, the Library’s Twitter page and the Facebook page of Tímarit.is, with the hashtag #FyrirÖld (“a century ago”). The idea is to draw attention to how important the Icelandic…

An exhibition of manuscripts in the keeping of the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies.  On the occasion of the international conference of the New Chaucer Society there will be a special exhibition of manuscripts in the keeping of the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies by the National Collection on 15–18 July. The exhibition…

The library Annual Report for the year 2013 is available in English here.

An exhibition on paper and vellum manuscripts has been opened in the National and University Library of Iceland. The Manuscript department is responsible for this exhibition which includes various examples of vellum and paper manuscripts.. The noteworthy manuscript „ Colic leaf“ is one of the objects in the exhibition, the only one of its kind…

On Thursday 5 June at 16:00 an exhibition on the French explorer Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen will open at the National and University Library of Iceland. The exhibition tells the story of the first French scientific expedition to Iceland, which is regarded as marking the beginning of the friendship between the French and the Icelanders. The…

Michel Butor and friends: an exhibition in Þjóðarbókhlaða in cooperation with the Reykjavík Arts Festival, Monday 26 May at 16:00 An exhibition of artists’ books by Michel Butor and twelve artists will open in Þjóðarbókhlaða, the library building at Arngrímsgata 3, during the Reykjavík Arts Festival, on Monday 26 May at 16:00. Michel Butor is…

An international conference on the Dewey classification system will be held in the lecture room of the National and University Library of Iceland on May 22. The title of the conference is: The Dewey Classification System – trending DDC topics in Iceland and other parts of Europe.                   The conference is free. The program and…

The exhibition Frá hjara veraldar – Melitta Urbancic – í útlegð frá Austurríki á Íslandi (From the ends of the earth: Melitta Urbancic, in exile from Austria in Iceland) is coming to an end, as are the exhibitions on Nína Tryggvadóttir and on the Hagþenkir Award book of 2013, Af jörðu (From the Earth). These exhibitions close on…