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On Thursday, May 4, books that have been nominated for the May Star Prize were introduced in the library’s lecture hall in the presence of a large crowd. Emma Björk Hjálmarsdóttir was the presenter. Ugla Egilsdóttir read from Skurn by Arndís Lóa Magnúsdóttir. Publisher: Una publishing house. Bergthóra Snæbjörnsdóttir read from her book Allt sem…

This week, university library staff from Vienna in Austria, Warsaw and Krakow in Poland, Ostrava in the Czech Republic, Cagliari in Italy and from Cyprus 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…

On the occasion of the centenary of writer, artist and editor Gísli J. Ástthórsson, his family handed over to the library a wide range of documents from his possession; manuscripts, original drawings, editions and more, and an exhibition opened in the library on his birthday, April 5. On the photo are, in addition to Ingibjörg…

An information and media literacy week will be held in Iceland for the first time on 13–17 February 2023. The week is organised by TUMI (Tengslanet um upplýsinga- og miðlalæsi, the network for information and media literacy), with grants from the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Innovation and from Sóley, a fund run by…

On February 2nd, a seminar was held in the National Library’s lecture hall on the Drama Society SÁL (Association of people interested in theatre education). The forum was held in conjunction with an ongoing exhibition in the Library displaying photos and documents that the students and teachers of the school gave to the Theatre Museum…

On January 11, 2023, the Theatre Museum received a remarkable gift from former students and teachers at the The Theatre School of the Theatre Company of Reykjavík. This good group of people gave their documents to the Theatre Museum at the National and University library of Iceland. The ceremony took place in the Library on…

Today Sverrir Guðmundsson and Þórdís Ingvarsdóttir presented the National and University Library of Iceland with three books by Halldór Laxness that the author signed for Nikólína Árnadóttir almost 100 years ago.   In Grikklandsárið (The Greek Year), Halldór’s fourth book of childhood memoirs, published in 1980, he relates that Nikólína played a large part in the…

In connection with the exhibition in the Library on Sir Joseph Banks’s Iceland expedition in 1772, professor emeritus Anna Agnarsdóttir will have a guided tour in Icelandic on the exhibition on Tuesday, 8 November at 16:30. All welcome!

In late 2018, representatives of the founders of the Redstocking movement in Iceland gathered and discussed the possibility of opening a website in cooperation with the Women’s History Archives and the National and University Library of Iceland. On a meeting the founders had with the National Librarian, the director of preservation at the National Library…

A new policy for the National and University Library of Iceland for the years 2023–2027 was launched on 14 October 2022, after a period of preparation. The policy builds on the legal framework the Library works within, on earlier policies and on the areas covered by the Library’s statutory tasks. A policy group within the…

Last week, two specialists from Turnitin, Dennis Von Bart and Jason Gibson, held a workshop at the University of Iceland for all Icelandic admins. About 30 people attended, both online and on site. Von Bart and Gibson went through the main functions of Turnitin, introduced new features and improvements and answered questions from participants. Hilma…

The manuscript collection recently acquired a manuscript containing the memoirs of Guðrún Borgfjörð (1856-1930). Guðrún was the daughter of Jón Borgfirðingur, scholar, police officer and manuscript collector and Anna Guðrún Eiríksdóttir. Guðrún was a housekeeper for her brother, Klemens, who served as a magistrate and government official. In her seventies, Guðrún began writing her memoirs,…