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The covers of best designed Croatian books published in 2024.

Croatian books selected for 2025 “Best Book Design from all over the World” competition

2024/2025

The National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) and Croatian Designers Association selected best designed Croatian books published in 2024 as part of the national book design competition (Hrvatska lijepa knjiga), annually organised as part of a larger, international competition, conducted by the German Book Art Foundation (Stiftung Buchkunst). The selected books will enter two major book events in Europe – the international Best Book Design from all over the World competition, which is held every year as part of the

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The invitation for the Zagreb edition of the 'Marko Marulić and Split - 500 years together' exhibition

NSK and Split City Museum jointly organising exhibition in Zagreb’s European Square commemorating “the father of Croatian literature”

18 January – 2 February 2025

From 18 January to 2 February 2025, the audience in Zagreb will have the opportunity to see the exhibition of the Split City Museum spotlighting Marko Marulić, “the father of Croatian literature” and “the Croatian Dante”, the pride of Split and one of the greatest figures of Croatian and European literature (Marko Marulić i Split – zajedničkih 500 godina). The exhibition, which will be put on in Zagreb’s European Square, features content enabling the exhibition visitors to get acquainted with the historical and social circumstances in Split during Marulić’...

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Hand holding an NSK Membership Card.

NSK updates its fees and charges

1 January 2025

Starting from 1 January 2025, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) will be providing its services according to an updated list of its fees and charges.

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Old Christmas from the NSK Print Collection.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2025 from NSK!

2024-2025

May the light of Christmas bring warmth to your homes and your hearts be filled with joy and love. The National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) wishes you peaceful and happy holidays, along with health, cheerfulness and success in the year ahead. Best wishes to all!

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NSK exhibition, Dominis, Split, Milesi Palace

Split’s Milesi Palace hosting the exhibition on Croatia’s 17th-century genius by 27 Dec 2024

17 – 27 December 2024

By 27 December 2024, the Milesi Palace, in Split, will be hosting Marco Antonio de Dominis: A Visionary’s Perspective, the exhibition which the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) put on as part of the 2024 European Heritage Days programme. Jointly organised by the Library, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (CASA) and Pontifical Croatian College of St. Jerome in Rome as part of the Academy’s project aimed at the popularisation of Croatian cultural heritage (

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A Christmas tree in the grand lobby of the National and University Library in Zagreb.

NSK opening hours over Christmas and New Year holidays

24 December 2024 – 6 January 2025

In the period between 24 December 2024 and 6 January 2025, the National and University Library in Zagreb will be providing its services under the following limited operating regime: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2025!

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The visual identity of the 15th Croatian Conference on Public Libraries.

“Public libraries in the digital world”: Call for papers for the 15th Croatian Conference on Public Libraries

Paper submission deadline: 22 April 2025

Submit your paper proposal for Public libraries in the digital world, the 15th Croatian Conference on Public Libraries, scheduled to take place from 8 to 11 October 2025 at the Vinkovci City Library. Organised by the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) and supported by the Croatian Ministry of Culture and Media, the Conference’s 15th anniversary edition spotlights the public libraries’ growing role as the key places in the context of digital transition, to which they contribute through various activities and initiatives. Increasingly relying in their work on the latest technological advances to meet their users’ needs and guard and curate cultural heritage, public libraries are ...

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Antiphonarium Romanum (1725)_NSK Manuscripts and Old Books Collection.

Celebrate with us NSK Day 2025!

21 February 2025, 12.00

On 21 February 2025, starting at 12.00, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) will host the celebration of this year’s Library’s Day, marked in memory of the printing on 22 February 1483 of a ‘Missal by the Law of the Roman Court’ (Misal po zakonu rimskoga dvora; Missale Romanum glagolitice), the first book in the Croatian language. NSK’s logotype, the letter of the angular Glagolitic alphabet Iže, i.e. the transliterated Latin letter ‘I’, has been taken over precisely from this historic missal, the oldest incunabulum in the Croatian language and the first book in Europe not printed in the Latin script, the date of whose publication since 2019 ...

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Christmas and New Year holidays decorations.

NSK café and restaurant closing over Christmas and New Year holidays

23 December 2024 – 3 January 2025

The café and restaurant operating as part of the Library, on Floor 5, will be closed from Monday, 23 December 2024, to Friday, 3 January 2025, and reopen on Tuesday, 7 January 2025, resuming regular opening hours.

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Participants in the 2024 NSK Systems Librarianship Conference.

“The Digital Maturity of Libraries”: NSK holds its 2024 Systems Librarianship Conference

13 December 2024

On 13 December 2024, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) hosted Systems Librarianship 2024, its 8th open conference for the users of the NSK and Croatian Academic and Research Libraries Integrated Library System. Organised with the support of the Croatian Ministry of Culture and Media, the conference once again brought together information professionals and librarians from all types of libraries and for the first time included a special seminar focusing on e-Universities, a major project as part of which NSK has been assigned the demanding task of enabling the digital transformation of Croatian ...

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