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The National and University Library of Iceland opened on 1 December 1994. To mark the Library’s anniversary this year, new features of the web archive will be presented: the Library has collected Icelandic material from the World Wide Web since 2004 and made it available on the website Vefsafn.is. The Library has collected Icelandic material…

The drawings of Tryggvi Magnússon presented to The National and University Library of Iceland. On November 13th the National Librarian, Ingibjörg Steinunn Sverrisdóttir, and Andrés Úlfur Helguson, a descendant of Tryggvi Magnússon, signed an agreement on the presentation of the drawings of Magnússon to The National and University Library. Magnússon was one of Iceland’s best…

Frá skruddum til skýja (From old tomes to the cloud) – Research in library and information science           8 November 2013 – 9:00 to 15:30 in the lecture hall on the 2nd floor of Þjóðarbókhlaða, the library building at Arngrímsgata 3:        Frá skruddum til skýja – Research in library and information science is the…

On 14 October 2013 Bjarki Þór Jónsson gave the National and University Library of Iceland the computer game Sjóorrusta (Sea Battle). The game is thought to be the first Icelandic computer game sold in Iceland; it was designed in 1986 by the father and son Erlingur Örn Jónsson and Jón Erlings Jónsson. The game was…

Private publishing, small publishers and a changing media An exhibition on private publishing in Iceland since 1977 will be opened in Þjóðarbókhlaða on Friday 11th October at 3pm Great changes have taken place in the last decades of the 20th century and in the beginning of the 21st regarding art,  ways of publishing and the…

The Manuscript Collection will be closed on Thursday afternoon and all day Friday because of the conference “Heimur handritanna” (The World of Manuscripts). If you want to see manuscripts on these days, you can order them in advance by e-mailing handrit (at) landsbokasafn.is, by calling 525 5678 or by placing an order before noon on…

Next Monday a programme made by master’s students in history at the University of Iceland, called Sagan í munnlegri geymd (History in oral tradition), begins on Rás 1. There will be eight programmes, on people’s lives and events in the last century. The material comes from interviews and personal accounts kept in the sound archive…

The exhibition Outsiders? is prolonged till Sunday October 6th. Welcome! http://landsbokasafn.is/index.php/news/527/224/Outsiders

To mark International Translation Day on 30 September we would like to remind you of the database ‘Communication & Mass Media Complete’, which indexes, among other things, the content of 750 journals in media, translation studies and sign language studies.  About 500 of them have full texts. The database is on EBSCOhost, but access is limited to computers…