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The visual identity of the 2024 Croatian Book Night.

Croatian Book Night 2024: Looking at books through the prism of a cataclysm

Programme registration deadline: 22 March 2024

On 23 April 2024, 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 13th edition of the Croatian Book Night. As Croatia’s annual national programme focusing on the popularisation of reading and promotion of books, the Croatian Book Night 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. Books as a means for averting cataclysms?

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Member of the NSK Information Centre giving a group of visitors a guided tour of NSK, the National and University Library in Zagreb.

NSK Doors Open Days 2024

20 & 21 February 2024

On 20 and 21 February 2024, you can make a special guided tour of the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) and learn more about the treasures preserved in its collections as part of the 2024 NSK Doors Open Days programme. NSK Doors Open Days are held every year, ushering in the celebration of the National and University Library in Zagreb Day, NSK Day. Their programme is this year spotlighting Marko Marulić, “the father of Croatian literature” and “the Croatian Dante”, the 500th anniversary of whose passing and whose significance for European cultural heritage prompted the Government of the Republic of Croatia to declare 2024 ...

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The visual identity of the 2024 National and University Library in Zagreb Day.

Join us in celebrating NSK Day 2024!

22 February 2024

On 22 February 2024, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) will host the celebration of this year’s Library’s Day. The National and University Library in Zagreb Day, NSK Day, is marked in memory of 22 February 1483, the day of the printing of the first book in the Croatian language, a ‘Missal by the Law of the Roman Court’ (Misal po zakonu rimskoga dvora; Missale Romanum glagolitice), which the Library preserves as one of its greatest treasures in its Manuscripts and Old Books Collection. Also, the Library’s logotype, the letter of the angular Glagolitic alphabet Iže

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