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NSK Director General Dr Ivanka Stričević at the 2024 CENL Executive Committee meeting at the Austrian National Library in front of the Austrian national library’s building.

NSK Director General Dr Stričević at CENL Executive Committee meeting at Austrian National Library

14 & 15 October 2024

The Director General of NSK, the National and University Library in Zagreb, Dr Ivanka Stričević took part in the latest meeting of the Executive Committee of the Conference of European National Librarians (CENL), hosted by the Austrian National Library on 14 and 15 October 2024. In her second consecutive term as a member of the CENL Executive Committee, NSK Director General Dr Stričević met with other Committee’s members to analyse the Conference activities. Apart from examining the reports on the projects currently funded by the Conference, the meeting participants discussed ...

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NSK Director General Dr Ivanka Stričević at the 2024 CENL Executive Committee meeting at the Austrian National Library in front of the Austrian national library’s building.

NSK Director General Dr Stričević at CENL Executive Committee meeting at Austrian National Library

14 & 15 October 2024

The Director General of NSK, the National and University Library in Zagreb, Dr Ivanka Stričević took part in the latest meeting of the Executive Committee of the Conference of European National Librarians (CENL), hosted by the Austrian National Library on 14 and 15 October 2024. In her second consecutive term as a member of the CENL Executive Committee, NSK Director General Dr Stričević met with other Committee’s members to analyse the Conference activities. Apart from examining the reports on the projects currently funded by the Conference, the meeting participants discussed the ...

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The visual identity of the 2024 Croatian Book Month.

“I will listen to your story…”: Croatian Book Month 2024

15 October – 15 November 2024

The Croatian Book Month 2024, this year’s edition of Croatia’s annual national programme successfully promoting books and reading for almost thirty years, opened on 15 October at the new building of the Rijeka City Library. Traditionally organised by the Zagreb City Libraries public library network under the auspices of the Croatian Ministry of Culture and Media, the Month is themed I will listen to your story…, spotlighting the value of telling stories and focusing on literary forms making the basis of oral literature, such as fairy tales and legends, which are constantly ...

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Visitors of the “Marco Antonio de Dominis: A Visionary’s Perspective” exhibition.

European Heritage Days 2024: Exhibition commemorating 17th-century Croatian genius on view by 29 Oct 2024

15 – 29 October 2024

On 15 October 2024, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) hosted the opening of Marco Antonio de Dominis: A Visionary’s Perspective, an exhibition spotlighting an outstanding Croatian theologian, philosopher and scholar at the turn of the 17th century. 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 (Upoznajmo hrvatsku znanstvenu baštinu), the exhibition, which is taking place as part of the 2024

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Hieronymus, Vitae sanctorum patrum. NSK Manuscripts and Old Books Collection.

NSK research project on Croatian incunabula receives grant from Adris Foundation

3 October 2024

The National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) has been awarded a grant from the Adris Foundation for its research project on Croatian incunabula, Croatia’s first printed books. With the €7,000 grant, awarded as a result of a personal donation by the President of the Adris grupa Ltd. Management Board and the Adris grupa Ltd. Supervisory Board Ante Vlahović, NSK will publish a monograph (Hrvatski prvotisci) presenting the results of more than a decade of research into the Croatian books dating from the 15th century. The research, which the Library conducted in cooperation with several partners, identified as many as 86 editions of Croatian incunabula in institutions all across Croatia, documenting ...

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Members of the team of the 2024 joint project of the national libraries of Bulgaria and Croatia.

NSK hosts the team of an international project focusing on cross-border cooperation aimed at the preservation of European cultural heritage

9 – 11 September 2024

From 9 to 11 September 2024, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) hosted a meeting held as part of Cross-Border Collaboration for European Cultural Heritage Preservation and Sustainable Development of Library Services, an international project spotlighting the significance of libraries and their services in the context of the preservation of Europe’s cultural heritage. Coordinated by the National Library of Bulgaria, the project was awarded the 2024 Erland Kolding Nielsen Grant from the Conference of European National Librarians (CENL) and focuses on the advancement of the professional and cultural exchange between the Bulgarian national library and NSK and on ...

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Director of the National Library of Kosovo Dr Blerina Rogova Gaxha and NSK Director General Dr Ivanka Stričević.

Director of National Library of Kosovo Dr Blerina Rogova Gaxha visits NSK

4 September 2024

On 4 September 2024, the Director of the National Library of Kosovo Dr Blerina Rogova Gaxha visited NSK, the National and University Library in Zagreb. During the visit, Dr Rogova Gaxha and the NSK Director General Dr Ivanka Stričević discussed the two libraries’ previous cooperation initiatives and various opportunities for continuing their successful collaboration in the future, especially with regard to the education of librarians and their continuous professional development, digitisation of resources in library collections, long-term preservation of digital heritage and storing legal deposit, as well as to the development of libraries and library profession in the future and to the social value of libraries.

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“Solidarity with Ukraine”: Exhibition by Ukrainian Post Office on view at NSK by 15 Sep 2024

27 August – 15 September 2024

By 15 September 2024, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) is hosting the Solidarity with Ukraine exhibition, organised by the Ukrainian Post Office in cooperation with the Croatian Post Office and Croatian Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs and featuring the postage stamps issued in support of Ukraine’s struggle against Russian aggression. Prepared by the Ukrainian Post Office as a way of expressing Ukraine’s gratitude to countries whose general post offices launched special postage stamps symbolising their countries’ solidarity with Ukraine in its struggle for freedom, the Solidarity with Ukraine exhibition features the stamps issued by 15 countries. Included among the displayed stamps is the stamp which the

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Segment of the poster for the 'Book Art in Croatia' exhibition.

A break from summer heat with the best designed Croatian books throughout history

13 – 20 August 2024

By 20 August, take a break from summer heat in the grand lobby of the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) where you can refresh yourself by visiting an exhibition spotlighting the outstanding examples of book art in Croatia spanning a period of 1,500 years. The Book Art in Croatia exhibition provides a historical overview of techniques and styles employed in the production and decoration of books in Croatia since the Middle Ages to contemporary times. Authored by art historian Dr Milan Pelc, it reveals interesting details about manuscript and printed books featuring a wide array of themes and content and presenting the greatest achievements in book design in Croatia. Apart from medieval ...

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Miroslav Krleža's manuscript archive held by the NSK Manuscripts and Old Books Collection.

NSK joins 2024 Miroslav Krleža Festival

2 July 2024

On 2 July 2024, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) hosted a special get-together held as part of the 13th Miroslav Krleža Festival, the 2024 edition of the annual cultural festival commemorating Miroslav Krleža (1893-1981), one of the most distinguished, world-famous Croatian writers and thinkers of all time. After an introductory address by the NSK Director General Dr Ivanka Stričević, the Festival was presented by its author and director Goran Matović, who donated to the Library the posters of the Festival’s previous editions. Designed by ...

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