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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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Young man sitting at a desk and working on a tablet.

eOP: NSK launches new electronic legal deposit system

2024

The National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) has set up a new system for the deposit of non-print published material (eOP). Created for Croatian publishers in compliance with the provisions of the Croatian library act (Zakon o knjižnicama i knjižničnoj djelatnosti, Official Gazette (Narodne novine) 17/2019, 98/2019, 114/2022, 36/2024) and as part of Croatia’s legal deposit system, eOP, the newly established system, enables ...

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Four photographs awarded as part of the competition preceding the 2024 edition of the Zagreb Salon international photography exhibition.

41st Zagreb Salon international photography exhibition on view at NSK by 10 Jan 2025

17 December – 10 January 2025

On 17 December 2024, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) will host the opening of the 41st Zagreb Salon, the 2024 edition of the biennial international photography exhibition organised by Fotoklub Zagreb, the oldest non-profit photographers association in this part of Europe and one of the oldest in the world. Supported by the International Federation of Photographic Art (FIAP), International Association of Art Photographers, Croatian Photographic Union, Croatian Ministry of Culture and Media and The City ...

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Material exhibited as part of “The Golden Age of the Fountain Pen in NSK Manuscripts” exhibition.

“The Golden Age of the Fountain Pen in NSK Manuscripts” exhibition on view by 15 December

3 – 15 December 2024

On 3 December 2024, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) hosted the opening The Golden Age of the Fountain Pen in NSK Manuscripts exhibition, the final event of the Library’s programme marking the 130th anniversary of the founding of the Library’s Manuscripts and Old Books Collection, NSK’s oldest special collection. Organised with the support of the Croatian Ministry of Culture and Media and remaining on view by 15 December 2024, the exhibition spotlights the Collection’s treasures such as the autograph manuscripts of the world-famous Croatian writer

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2024 NSK exhibition of prints by Dražen Trogrlić.

“Galactic dance”: Exhibition of prints by Dražen Trogrlić on view at NSK by 19 Dec 2024

11 – 19 December 2024

On 11 December 2024, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) hosted the presentation of a print portfolio by an award-wining Croatian painter, sculptor and graphic artist Dražen Trogrlić (Galaktički ples / Galactic dance) which will be displayed in the Library’s grand lobby by 19 December.  Published by NSK, the portfolio’s 15 prints convey the author’s vision inspired by the immense and infinite galactic expanses. The presentation opened with a welcome address by the NSK Director General Dr Ivanka Stričević and an introduction by the Head of the NSK Print Collection Tamara ...

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Participants in the 2024 conference on Marko Marulić hosted by NSK.

Year of Marko Marulić: NSK hosts conference spotlighting the legacy of “the father of Croatian literature”

21 & 22 November 2024

On 21 and 22 November 2024, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) hosted a scientific conference commemorating the 500th anniversary of the passing of Marko Marulić (1450-1524), “the father of Croatian literature” and a distinguished European humanist. Jointly organised by NSK and the Croatian Language and Linguistics Institute with the support of the Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Youth and Croatian Ministry of Culture and Media, the conference was held as part of the Year of Marko Marulić, Croatia’s nationwide ...

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The visual identity of Systems Librarianship NSK Conference 2024, themed “The Digital Maturity of Libraries”.

“The Digital Maturity of Libraries”: Call for abstracts for 2024, 8th open conference for users of NSK Integrated Library System

13 December 2024

On 13 December 2024, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) will host Systems Librarianship 2024, the 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 and offering free registration, the conference aims to bring together information professionals and librarians from all types of libraries, regardless of the integrated library system used or implemented level of automation. The Systems Librarians conference focuses on issues related to the development and implementation of information systems and the digital transformation of libraries and heritage institutions. It ...

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