The Institute of History at the University of Iceland celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2021. On the occasion of the anniversary,...

Yesterday, on the Icelandic National Day, the President of Iceland invested Rósa Björg Jónsdóttir, library and information specialist at the National...

The National and University Library of Iceland in cooperation with The Writers´ Union of Iceland awards a prize for a book...

On May 25, Jón Múli Árnason's family gave to the library various documents from his possession. Those who handed over the...

The National and University Library of Iceland in conjuction with the Writers’ Union of Iceland, will present the May Star Poetry...

The contract provides access to all Karger e-journals (including backfiles) and enables OA publishing with no additional cost to authors. This transformative...

Björn G. Björnsson gave a guided tour of the exhibition Paradise Reclaimed 60/40 on March 2 for stage designers and those...

The Icelandic Comics Society recently donated Icelandic comics to the National and University Library of Iceland. Atla Hrafney handed the comics...

Icelandic Language Day is celebrated each year on November 16, the birthday of the poet Jónas Hallgrímsson. The information website of the...

The 13th International Open Access Week was held 19-25 October 2020. The theme this year was Open with Purpose: Taking Action...

International Open Access Week will be held on October 19-25. The theme this year is „Open with Purpose: Taking Action to...

On October 5, a ban on gatherings of more than 20 people will be set in Iceland. Due to the ban the...

Háma is a new operator at the Library café. Háma is run by Student Services (Félagsstofnun stúdenta) and is located in...

JAÐARLÖND | BORDERLANDS is an exhibition organized by ARKIR Book Arts Group in cooperation with the Reykjavík Art Festival. The exhibition...

The National Theatre of Iceland and the National and University Library of Iceland have formed a partnership in order to preserve...

The May Star Poetry Award was presented in the National and University Library of Iceland on Wednesday May 27, 2020. The...

The National and University Library of Iceland participates in the Government's initiative to offer all students who are between semesters and...

The Library will open at 13 on Wednesday May 27, due to no cold water in the building from 9-13.  We apologize...

On May 18, on the International Museum Day, the National Museum of Iceland received the Icelandic Museum Prize for the new...

A new website for the Theatre Museum of Iceland – leikminjasafn.is – has been launched. The site includes a database, of theatrical...

The Library will open at 10 on Thursday May 14, due to a staff meeting. We apologize for the inconvenience this may...

The National and University Library of Iceland in conjuction with the Writers’ Union of Iceland, will present the May Star Poetry...

The National and University Library of Iceland, Þjóðarbókhlaðan, will open on May 4 2020, after being closed since March 16, due...

The steering committee of Iceland Consortium for electronic subscriptions, supports ICOLC´S Statement on the Global COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Impact on...

The manuscript collection welcomes all kinds of personal reflections regarding the effects of the coronavirus disease on people´s everyday lives. For further...

The National and University Library of Iceland will be closed to guests for four weeks starting March 16 2020 due to...

A ban on gatherings of more than 100 people has been set in Iceland. It takes effect at midnight on March...

Hagþenkir,  the Association of Non-fiction and Educational Writers in Iceland conferred on Wednesday 4 March it´s special award for academic work of outstanding...

Thursday February 20, Benedikt Hjartarson, professor of Literature at the University of Iceland had a lecture at the Library about the...

Sunday, February 16 at 14–16 PM, Guðrún Laufey Guðmundsdóttir and Halldóra Kristinsdóttir, experts from the National and University Library of Iceland...

Winter Lights Festival is an annual event that celebrates both the winter world and the growing sun light after a long period...

The Order of the Falcon On New Year‘s Day, the President of Iceland invested Jóhanna Gunnlaugsdóttir professor at the University of Iceland...

This summer the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture purchased the PURE research system which is intended to be the Current...

This morning, December 5, Arnheidur Steinthorsdottir, graduate student in history delivered a presentation on her Bachelor's thesis “When women took over...

The 24th Nordic Workshop on Bibliometric and Research Policy 2019 will be held 27th-29th of November in Veröld – House of...

China's ambassador, Jin Zhijian, visited to the museum on Tuesday 12 November for a meeting with the National Librarian. On that...

Saturday November 2 at 13-17: 30 the Women's History Archives at the National and University Library of Iceland will have a...

The 12th International Open Access Week was held 21-27 October 2019. The theme this year was Open for whom? Equity in...

Lilja Alfreðsdóttir, the Minister for Education, Science and Culture, unveiled a new memorial plaque in honor of Jón Árnason, former national...

The annual NordLic (Cooperation of Nordic consortia) meeting, hosted this year at Þjóðarbókhlaða, took place on June 6 and 7 2019. The...

Monday June 3 2019 a workshop on Open Access was held at the library. Keynote speakers were Colleen Campbell, OA2020 Partner...

Lilja Alfreðsdóttir, Minister of Education, Science and Culture, visited the National and University Library of Iceland on May 28, 2019. Lilja...

Alefli – Gegnir user group held its annual conference on May 23 2019 at Þjóðarbókhlaða. Landskerfi representatives updated conference guests as to...

The Theatre Museum of Iceland held its last annual general meeting in Þjóðarbókhlaða on May 23 2019. The decision was made...

The NING group (Nordic Information Network Gender) held their annual meeting at Þjóðarbókhlaða on May 21, 2019. The Nordic countries take turns...

The National and Univeristy Library of Iceland, in conjunction with The Writers‘ Union of Iceland has awarded Eva Rún Snorradóttir The...

On May 13th 2019 the lecture The changing landscape of academic publications in a Nordic context was held at the National and...

The travelling print workshop Print & Friends is up and working at the Culture House tonight 8 February between 6 and...

On January 24th, The Hungarian Cultural Society in Iceland donated a collection of books to The National and University Library. The...

A symposium in memory of Halldór Hermannsson, curator at the Fiske Icelandic Collection at Cornell University in the United States will be...

To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the National and University Library of Iceland, the Iceland Post issued a National Library of...

The Summer school in manuscript studies is a collaboration between the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, the University of Iceland,...

Sigrún Júlíusdóttir, former professor at the University of Iceland and chairman of the Board of the Research Center for Children and...

32. Conference of European National Librarians took place in Reykjavík Iceland 4th and 5th of June 2018, and in addition the...

  Opening hours from May 11th to August 26th Monday - Friday        9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Saturday       ...

On March 14th, an exhibition was opened at the National Library in collaboration with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra on the program...

The National and University Library of Iceland has launched an information web about Open Access (OA).It´s supposed to be a gateway...

On November 9th 2017 The National and University Library of Iceland signed the Expression of Interest in the Large-scale Implementation of...

Iceland Consortium (hvar.is) offers trial access to Britannica ImageQuest database from Encyclopædia Britannica. Access is national as content is available to everyone in Iceland who...

Contact is a new link (at the Menu bar) on the library web. On the site users find: Web chat to chat online...

10th Annual International Open Access Week, October 23-29, 2017. This year’s theme of “Open in Order to…” is meant to move the...

On Friday, 6 October, on the birthday of poet Benedikt Gröndal, an exhibition was opened about him in the library in...

On Sunday September 24th at 2:00pm, Gunnar Marel Hinriksson from the National and University Library of Iceland will guide visitors (in...

On September 7th, Ásmundur Jónsson, on behalf of Bad Taste Ltd, handed over to The National Library, for possession and preservation,...

Winter opening hours: Monday - Thursday 8:15 a.m. - 10:00 p.m. Friday 8:15 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. Saturday 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Sunday 11:00...

      The activities carried out by the Icelandic Music Museum in Kópavogur and its collection will be transferred to the National Museum...

An exhibition about composer Sigvaldi Kaldalóns was opened at the National Library 24 May. The exhibition is in cooperation of the...

  The National and University Library of Iceland and The Writers´ Union of Iceland have established a new prize for a poetry...

  The National and University Library of Iceland and the Writers' Union of Iceland have established a new poetry book prize entitled...

Conference in National and University Library of Iceland April 27-28, 2017 The National and University Library of Iceland and IFLA (International Federation...

The Icelandic Literary Society premiered in the Library´s lecture hall on Thursday, 6 April a video called Svipþyrping – Svipmyndir úr...

The National and University Library of Iceland offers trial access to ProQuest Ebook Central on https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/landsbokasafn Ebook Central delivers ebooks from scholarly sources...

Zhang Weidong ambassador of China in Iceland had the last lecture in the series about friendly exchanges between China and Iceland....

The Icelandic Chinese Cultural Society presented to the library for safekeeping two minutes books, held by the society. One is a...

Unnur Guðjónsdóttir presented to the library in connection with the exhibition China-Iceland three books on China. Kína – ævintýralandið (China –...

2017 Long Night against Procrastination National and University Library of Iceland Thursday, March 16, 17:00-22:00 Work together against procrastination and writer’s block! All University...

  On Tuesdays, during lunch-break, the National and University Library of Iceland offers a series of lectures and events about friendly exchanges between...

Hagþenkir,  the Association of Non-fiction and Educational Writers in Iceland conferred on Wednesday 1 March it´s special award for academic work...

Friday, 3 February, a collection of manuscripts by Ísólfur Palsson (1871-1941) were delivered to the National and University Library of Iceland....

The Iceland Consortium for electronic subscriptions presents trial access to four databases on Ebscohost through March 2017, EconLit, Academic Search Ultimate,...

  A license agreement has been reached between the The Iceland Consortium for Electronic Subscriptions and Elsevier for a nationwide access to...

A large number of the material that the manuscript collection receives today are private archives from the twentieth century. However, the...

Autumn Evening by Gunnlaugur Scheving 1904-1972. Some of the works in the library are owned by The National Library of Iceland and others...

A trial access  on the HI-net to journals of The Royal Society of Chemistry „Gold journal package“ has been opened for...

The National and University Library of Iceland hosted a seminar on open science on the 15th of September. The seminar was...

The Writing Centre in the National Library is a cooperative project of the writing centres at the School of Humanities (Hum)...

An article about Manfreð Vilhjálmsson architect of the National and University Library of Iceland was recently published in the web-journal T-RANSFER....

On the 16th of June a special exhibition on the Great Auk was opened in the Cultural House at Hverfisgata. In...

  The Icelandic Literary Society celebrates its bicentennial in 2016. On Thursday May 12th, at 14 PM an exhibition opened at the National...

Summer opening hours starts at the National and University Library of Iceland on Wednesday, May 11th. Summer hours:Monday - Friday: 9am-5pmSaturday: 10am-2pm...

  Inn á græna skóga [Into the green woods] – an exhibition of Snorri Hjartarson´s poetry At four o´clock on Friday the 22nd...

We offer trial access to journals http://www.geoscienceworld.org/  and e-books http://ebooks.geoscienceworld.org/ from GeoScienceWorld. This offer includes 146.000 articles from 46 journals in...

The 2016 IIPC (International Internet Preservation Consortium) General Assembly is hosted by the National and University Library of Iceland and taking place...

The library is open as follows:

21/3-23/3 08:15-22:00

24/3-25/3 LOKAÐ / CLOSED

26/3 10:00-17:00

27/3-28/3 LOKAÐ / CLOSED

In connection to an exhibition in the library on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the Icelandic Bible Society a...

Did you know that...gegnir.is is now a part of leitir.is?Check out button: „Search in Gegnir“: Searching is limited by materials in...

We have new translations of Icelandic literature at the library. Authors, among others, are: Ragnar Jónsson, Yrsa Sigurðardóttir, Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Jón...

The Icelandic Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, the National Library and Saga Forlag recently signed a contract for Web publishing rights...

There will be some changes to the library pricelist in the new year. The yearly fee for library cards will remain...

On Thursday the 17th of December there was signed an agreement between the The National and University Library and The Icelandic...

  18 December 9-17 19 December 10-14 20 December CLOSED 21-23 December 9-17 24-27 December CLOSED 28-30 December 9-17 31 December - 4 January CLOSED 5-8 January 9-17 9 January...

For a short time there is trial access to the database SPORTDiscus with Full Text which indexes and provides full -text...

SFR - The Union of Public Servants has announced a strike on October 15, 16, 19. and 20. If the union...

A few letters from children are preserved at the National and University Library of Iceland. Some of those letters were on display in...

Worakot Janemathukom, the representative of the Thai Embassy in Iceland based in Copenhagen, visited the National and University Library of Iceland...

Now summer is here the summer opening hours will start next Saturday. During summer the library is open from 9am to...

Legal Organization, Cultural Exchange and Conflicts of the Basque Fisheries in the North Atlantic There is a conference on the Slaying of...

For the next two weeks, from April 13 to April 26, a free access will be available to 43 journals in archaeology, conservation and...

The opening hours at the library will be extended during the exam period the following weekends. 17. – 19. apríl 24. – 26. apríl 2.-3....

During the Easter Holidays the library opening hours will be as follows: Maundy Thursday, April 2 Closed Good Friday, April 3 Closed Saturday, April...

This report analyses the results of the ENUMERATE Survey Report on Digitisation in Cultural Heritage Institutions 2014 focusing specifically on the...

Bloomsbury Collections (comprising 4,000 titles) is making itself available to all users of the University of Iceland net (hi.is) from today until...

On the twentieth anniversary of the library December 1 2014 a website was opened containing the Icelandic bibliography 1534-1844. The history...

From 17 December 2014 to 12 January 2015    17-19 December                    9-17 20 December...

An exhibition commemorating the 400th anniversary of the birth of the hymn poet Hallgrímur Pétursson was opened in the National and...

Manuscripts from the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies in connection with the International New Chaucer Congress 2014 In connection with...

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...

An international conference on the Dewey classification system will be held in the lecture room of the National and University Library...

Next Saturday, May 10, summer opening hours will start at the library: Monday-Friday: 9am-5pm Saturday: 10am-2pm (note that from June 21 to August...

The opening hours at the library will be extended during the exam period the following weekends. April 25 to 27 May 2 to...

The library will be closed on: Maundy Thursday, April 17th Good Friday,  April 18th Saturday, April 19th Easter Sunday, April 20th Easter Monday, April 21st and on First Day...

On Saturday the 8 March an exhibition on writer, sculptor and actress Melitta Urbanic (1902-1984) was opened in the National and...

The National and University Library of Iceland has published a brochure explaining the Library´s policy 2013-2017. Early in 2013 the National and...

On Thursday the 12th of December representatives from The National and University Library of Iceland and Steinshús ses – a private...

Library opening hours will be extended due to exams on the following three weekends: 29 November - 1 December 6 December - 8...

On November 16th, the birthday of the poet Jónas Hallgrímsson, Icelanders celebrate a national day honouring the Icelandic language. On the...

The drawings of Tryggvi Magnússon presented to The National and University Library of Iceland. On November 13th the National Librarian, Ingibjörg Steinunn...

Private publishing, small publishers and a changing media An exhibition on private publishing in Iceland since 1977 will be opened in Þjóðarbókhlaða...

The exhibition Outsiders? is prolonged till Sunday October 6th. Welcome!

http://landsbokasafn.is/index.php/news/527/224/Outsiders

Art and Culture as Therapy for Alzheimer’s disease Opening of the exhibition and presentation of the book: Narrating memories with Þórarinn...

Dr. Andreja Valic Zver gives a paper at the National and University Library of Iceland Monday 16 September, 17–18, on the...

A symposium in connection with an exhibition on outsiders at the National and University Library of Iceland 14 September 2013 at...

Exhibition and Lectures at the National and University Library of Iceland Friday 23 August 16–18 Friday 23 August 16-18 the exhibition International...

Short English version of the Annual Report 2102 is available on the Library´s website. The report is in a similar format...

Yesterday, the staff of the manuscript collection at The National and University Library celebrated the 130 anniversary of Páll Eggert Ólason...

From the next weekend onwards the library will be closed both Saturday and Sunday. Opening on Saturdays will resume on 10...

The National and University Library of Iceland recently became a member of the Europeana project entitled "Europeana - Newspapers". The purpose...

The National and University Library of Iceland have recently implemented an international numbering system for notated music, ISMN, the International Standard...

Bjarni M. Gíslason (1908-1980) was born at Stekkjarbakki, Tálknafjörður, Iceland. He was a sailor as a young man and published his...

Opening hours  May 10 to September 1, 2013 Monday - Friday               9:00 - 17:00      Saturday                         10:00 - 14:00* Sunday                              closed  *From June 15 to August 3...

Users on the University network can now access Westlaw UK - Westlaw International. The user is taken directly into Westlaw UK....

Symposium on Eiríkur Magnússon librarian in Cambridge (1833-1913) at the National and University Library of Iceland 20 April 2013 at 14:00-16:30 On Saturday 20...

Opening hours at the library will be extended during the exam period from April 19 to May 5. During this period...

Europeana, the European portal for digitized cultural heritage, now sports a new interface designed to facilitate access to the collections of...

The library will be closed on:  Maundy Thursday, March 28th,  Good Friday,  March 29th Open on Saturday March 30th 10:00 - 17:00  closed on: Easter Sunday, March...

Throughout March we offer free access to the database Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present'  which...

The manuscript collection recently acquired a Bible that once belonged to Elka Björnsdóttir. Elka was a worker in Reykjavík and wrote...

On the 24th of January the private archives of some members of the Icelandic Social Democratic Party were opened to the...

Last summer Elsevier of Oxford published an eight-volume scholarly work, Comprehensive Renewable Energy. The work covers all aspects of renewable energy...

An exhibition on food and dining culture in Reykjavík in the first half of the 20th century will be opened Friday...

The library will be closed on Tuesday January 29 until 2pm due to policy work. We apologise for any  inconvenience that...

A new virtual exhibition at the European Library showcases digitised materials related to scientific progress and discovery during the 19th and...

Here is an overview of opening hours at the library during the Christmas holidays: Opening hours Christmas and New Year's Eve 2012 December...

Wednesday 12th of December 2012 at 15:30 an exhibition will be opened in The National and University Library of Iceland celebrating...

Last November 30, on the occasion of the library's 18th anniversary, two new websites were formally inaugurated: Historical Maps of Iceland...

As usual the library will extend its opening hours during exams in December. This means that the library will be open...

We remind users on the University network of a trial access to  Cambridge Books Online - eBooks covering subjects from all...

The National and University Library of Iceland has signed the Berlin Declaration of Open Access.  Thereby the library confirms its policy...

from University Publishing Online provides access to Cambridge Books Online and eBooks from the world renowned publishing programmes of partner presses,...