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Visual identity of the 2025 Croatian Book Night.

Croatian Book Night 2025: To animals, from humans, with bookish love

23 April 2025

On 23 April 2025, marking this year’s World Book and Copyright Day and Croatian Book Day (22 April), the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) will host the opening of the 14th edition of the Croatian Book Night. As Croatia’s annual national programme focusing on the popularisation of reading and promotion of books, the 2025 Croatian Book Night programme will again promote a wider public debate on the social status of the book and the importance of values associated with it in the contemporary society, for both the individual and the global community. Literature – ...

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The visual identity of the Fourteenth Festival of Croatian Digitisation Projects.

Fourteenth Festival of Croatian Digitisation Projects: Call for Papers

Paper submission deadline: 30 March 2025

The National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) will host its Fourteenth Festival of Croatian Digitisation Projects, addressing issues related to the digitisation of heritage, digital collections management systems, digital products and services and presenting digitisation projects, on 8 and 9 May 2025. At D-fest 2025, we will be discussing digital transformation strategies, the ways in which digital technologies may contribute to sustainability and the application of the principles of environmental responsibility, methods of managing digital collections, challenges related to archiving and data accessibility, innovative technological solutions, the role of artificial intelligence in managing and interpreting cultural resources, the regulation and protection of data and copyright- and ethics-related issues in the digital environment. Submit your paper proposal ...

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Segment of the cover of the 21st issue of “The Voice of NSK”.

NSK publishes 21st issue of its journal, “The Voice of NSK”

21 February 2025

Published as part of the celebration of NSK Day 2025, the 21st issue of the journal of the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK), The Voice of NSK, is now available in both print and electronic formats, with summaries in English. The latest issue of the Library’s official journal gives an overview of its programmes and activities in 2024, putting a spotlight on new services and major

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Members of LADO, Croatia’s world-famous folk dance ensemble.

NSK Day 2025: Celebrating 418 years of existence and major achievements in 2024

21 February 2025

Together with many distinguished guests, the representatives of Croatia’s prominent cultural and academic institutions, our partners and friends we have celebrated this year’s National and University Library in Zagreb Day, happy and proud to be part of more than four centuries of tradition. The celebration, which brought together the representatives of the University of Zagreb and other Croatian universities and research institutions, the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (CASA), leading library professionals and former NSK directors general and other NSK staff, opened with the addresses by the Envoy of the Croatian Minister of Science, ...

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NSK four-person study pod.

New NSK learning spaces: Study pods for individual and group work

'e-Universities’ project

Apart from spacious reading rooms, with over 1,000 seats located on six floors, group work areas and study rooms, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) now offers access to study pods as brand new learning spaces available as part of NSK’s services. Located in the reading room on Floor 1 and available to NSK users during the Library’s opening hours, the study pods provide up-to-date digital learning facilities. Suited for individual and group work, they are ideal for distance learning as well as ...

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Library user returning overdue loans to a member of the NSK staff at a help desk in one of NSK’s reading rooms.

Our books back, your late return charges waived!

19 – 22 February 2025

As part of the activities ushering in the celebration of the 2025 National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) Day, the Library will be waiving all late return charges from 19 to 22 February. Overdue titles may be returned where they were issued – at the loan desk on the Library’s Ground Floor or in the reading rooms on Floors 3 and 4. Learn more about this year’s edition of our NSK Doors Open Days programme, traditionally heralding the celebration. Just ...

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Visitors at the 2024 NSK Doors Open Days programme.

NSK Doors Open Days 2025

19 & 20 February 2025

Visit the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) on 19 and 20 February 2025 as part of this year’s NSK Doors Open Days programme and find out everything about the invaluable treasures of Croatian and world cultural and scientific heritage preserved in our collections. Traditionally ushering in the celebration of the National and University Library in Zagreb Day, NSK Day, this year's NSK Doors Open Days programme will spotlight NSK’s manuscript holdings. Also, it will offer special guided tours of the Library and an interesting workshop programme. The tours, which everyone interested in need to apply for

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Young man working at a desk using a laptop and tablet and writing down notes.

Bukinet: NSK setting up a cloud-based system for Croatian academic libraries

‘e-Universities’ project

Acting as the partner in the e-Universities project, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) has started setting up Bukinet, a cloud-based system for Croatian academic libraries. By opting for Alma/Primo VE, a unique library services platform developed by the Ex Libris Clarivate company, and securing the related three-year subscription which along with NSK will be used by other 82 Croatian academic libraries, the Library successfully undertook one of the activities it has been tasked with as one of the partners in the ...

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Visual identity of “Supercharged by AI” project.

NSK to host “Supercharged by AI” exhibition, addressing artificial intelligence-related challenges 

29 January – 14 February 2025

Visit Supercharged by AI, an exhibition innovatively addressing challenges resulting from the advance of artificial intelligence, which the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) will be hosting from 29 January to 14 February 2025. Learn more about the impact that artificial intelligence can have on politics and how it may be used to exacerbate malpractices such as online harassment, online scams and online-created bias. Take the opportunity to interact with this innovative exhibition’s content to become better informed and more aware of the global developments brought about by the swift rise of artificial intelligence and thus become readier to adapt to the contemporary rapidly changing digital landscape.   Bringing complex AI-related concepts and issues closer to average citizens the exhibition was created ...

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NSK user sitting at a laptop computer whose screen is showing the homepage of the NSK’s e-resources website.

Croatian researchers enabled to publish open access nearly 130 papers in Wiley and IEEE journals

2025

Acting as the representative of the Croatian academic library consortium, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) has concluded two transformative contracts with Wiley and IEEE, the high-profile international academic publishers. The contracts enable Croatian researchers and the members of the Croatian academic community to publish open access and free of charge by the end of 2025 89 papers in Wiley journals and 40 papers in IEEE journals. This comes as a result of NSK’s and the consortium’s continued efforts in the promotion of open access as one of the fundamental principles of open science policies and initiatives as well as the significance of both providing access for ...

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