The Minister of Education, Science and Culture, Illugi Gunnarsson, visited the Library on Tuesday 27 August with his assistant Sigríður Hallgrímsdóttir. With them were Ásta Magnúsdóttir, Permanent Secretary, Ingibjörg Ólafsdóttir, secretary to the Permanent Secretary, Eiríkur Þorláksson, specialist, and Leifur Eysteinsson, quality manager. The Minister looked round the Library and its exhibitions, and the group visited, among other places, the 4th floor, the Music and Audio-visual Collection, Information Services, the cataloguing department, the National Collection, the Manuscript Collection and the photography studio. Then the Library’s main digital projects were presented in the meeting room, and at the same time there was lively discussion of the Library’s work and its plans for the future.
