On Wednesday, 29 May 2024, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) will close at 21.00. The Library will reopen on Friday, 31 May 2024, resuming its regular opening hours. Learn more about the Croatian Statehood Day.
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On 20 May 2023, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) hosted a special programme presenting the latest collection of poems by the late Luko Paljetak, Croatia’s outstanding writer and Fellow of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Paljetak’s latest, and sadly the last poetry collection, dedicated to a distinguished Croatian poet at the turn of the 20th century Dragutin Domjanić (Kajkavske pjesme; Eng. “Poems in Kajkavian”), was presented by the Fellows of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts Krešimir Nemec, Sibila Petlevski and Miro Gavran, Croatian poet famous for writing in Kajkavian, one of three major Croatian dialects, Božica Pažur and the collection’...
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On 22 and 24 May 2024, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) will host a special programme organised by the members of the Management of Library Associations Section of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA MLAS). Register for free for both events and take the opportunity to learn more about the latest developments and trends in library advocacy on the global level. Panel with the IFLA North America and Europe Regional Division Committee Members The panel will take place on 22 May 2024, starting at 11.00, with the Executive Director of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) Susan Haigh and International Cooperation Officer ...
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Since 1985, the celebration of Europe Day has promoted peace and unity in Europe, commemorating the historic Shuman Declaration, which ushered in the creation of the European Union. The European Documentation Centre operating as part of the National and University Library in Zagreb (EDC NSK), established in 2018, is one of Croatia’s main points of access to information on the European Union, making available the Union’s publications and official documents. Everything there is to know about the European ...
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The latest exhibition on the NSK Online Exhibitions website spotlights one of the greatest treasures of the NSK Map Collection – a 19th-century manuscript atlas of the Croatian coast of the Adriatic known as ‘Napoleon’s atlas’. Called Napoleon’s – for a reason Commissioned by Napoléon Bonaparte himself and marked by exceptional scientific and artistic value, the 1806 atlas consists of charts and topographical views of the eastern part of Croatia’s Adriatic ...
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The National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) joined the 2024 Croatian Science Festival by organising a special citizen science programme targeting secondary school students and focusing on the preservation and promotion of Croatia’s musical heritage. Jointly prepared by the Library’s User Services Department and its Music Collection and spotlighting intelligence as this year's Festival's theme, the programme was held on 22, 23 and 25 April 2024. Aimed at promoting Croatian musical heritage, but also stimulating the students’ musical intelligence, it focused on researching the sound recordings from the private archive of Silvio Foretić (1940-), a highly unconventional and progressive Croatian composer. Using citizen science to make ...
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On 25 April 2024, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) hosted a presentation of the recently published Latin transliterations of two 16th-century masterpieces of Croatian Glagolitic heritage printed in Senj, the cradle of the Croatian Glagolitic printing. In 2023, the 1507 Croatian translation (Naručnik plebanušev) of Manipulus curatorum (14th c.) and 1508 Croatian translation (Mirakuli Slavne Deve Marije) of Miracoli della gloriosa Vergine Maria (15th c.), both printed in the Croatian Glagolitic script at the historic printing house in Senj, got their Latin ...
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On 26 April 2024, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) hosted a special programme celebrating the inscription of a centuries-old Croatian script on Croatia’s registry of cultural property as intangible cultural heritage. Gaining its official status as Croatia’s protected intangible cultural heritage in November 2023, the script has been in use since the 11th century in Poljica, Croatia’s historical region to the south of Split, between the Žrnovnica and Cetina rivers, from which the script takes its name (poljičica, meaning “the Poljica script”, in Croatian also known as poljiška bosančica, poljiška azbukvica, ...
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On Tuesday, 30 April 2024, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) will close at 21.00. The Library will reopen on Thursday, 2 May 2024, resuming its regular opening hours.
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On 23 April 2024, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) hosted the opening of the 2024 Croatian Book Night, whose programme was held on more than 250 venues all across Croatia, featured over 1,200 events and brought together thousands of participants of all ages. The 2024 edition of the Croatian Book Night, Croatia’s annual national programme marking World Book and Copyright Day and Croatian Book Day (22 April) traditionally opened at the Library. After a welcome address by the NSK Director General Dr Ivanka Stričević and introductions by the President of the Publishers and Booksellers Association of the Croatian Chamber of Economy Slavko Kozina ...
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