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There will be a reading from poetry books that have been nominated for the May Star Poetry Award in the Library’s lecture hall at 12-13 PM, Wednesday, May 8. Nominated books are: Áður en ég breytist by Elías Knörr Dulstirni/Meðan glerið sefur by Gyrðir Elíasson Vandamál vina minna by Harpa Rún Kristjánsdóttir Flagsól by Melkorka Ólafsdóttir and Una Hlíf Bárudóttir…

Alfred and Atli, sons of Lothar Grund and Anna Halldórsdóttir, visited the library and the exhibition about their father, Lothar Grund, accompanied by their uncle, Brynjar Bragason, National Librarian Ingibjörg Steinunn Sverrisdóttir, Theatre Museum specialist Sigríður Jónsdóttir and exhibition designer Ólafur J. Engilbertsson.

This week, university library staff from Malta, Greece, Sweden, Poland and Lithuania visited the library. The visit is a part of the Erasmus Staff Mobility Program which is an EU‘ programme to support education, training, youth and sport in Europe. The diverse projects of the library as an national library and the library to the…

The National and University Library of Iceland in conjuction with the Writers’ Union of Iceland, will present the May Star Poetry Award, on May 15 at the National Library. Nominations to the May Star 2023 were presented on April 17 at Gunnarshús. Nominated books are: Áður en ég breytist by Elías Knörr Dulstirni/Meðan glerið sefur by Gyrðir…

In theme of Easter, staff members at the library are dressed in yellow and green today. Opening hours during Easter are: March 25-27, regular opening hours or 8:15-22:00. March 28 – April 1 the library is closed. We open at 8:15 on Tuesday April 2.

There‘s a law in Iceland that dictates that all published materials such as music, books, magazines, newspapers, advertisment pamplets and more should be deposited to the National and University Library of Iceland through legal deposit. Movies, Radio and TV materials are to be deposited to the National Film Archive of Iceland. The purpose is to…

The employee association Sámur in Edda visited Hlöðver, the employee association of the National Library on Wednesday and received instructions about the National Library.

The National Library recently received a grant from the Rannís Infrastructure Fund to work on the registration and description of manuscripts on handrit.is. Matthías Aron Ólafsson and Kjartan Atli Ísleifsson have been working on the project since autumn. They had lectures about the project and the manuscripts that have come to their attention in the…

According to a new reading survey by the Icelandic Literature Center (Miðstöð íslenskra bókmennta), published today on Icelandic Language Day, about half the nation went to a library or used a library’s online services over the past year. Women use library services more often than men. A large majority of Icelanders think it is important…

On Thursday, November 2, an exhibition about set and costume designer Lothar Grund was opened in the library. A short program was offered in the library’s lecture hall. The National librarian welcomed the guests and the Theatre museum’s specialist, Sigríður Jónsdóttir, gave a short presentation about the concept and philosophy of the exhibition. Finally, Brynjar…

At the library 2/3 of the staff are women and non-binary people, and therefore the library services will be limited on October 24 due to the Women‘s strike. The library will be open 8:15-17:00. It will only be possible to return books at the service desk on 2nd floor and borrow books using the self-services…