The National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) wishes all its users, partners and friends peaceful and happy holidays, along with health, cheerfulness and success in the year ahead. Best wishes to all!
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In the period between 24 December 2025 and 6 January 2026, the National and University Library in Zagreb will be providing its services under the following limited operating regime: on Wednesday, 24 December 2025, the National and University Library in Zagreb will close at 16.00; on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, from 25 to 27 December 2025, the Library will be closed, and will reopen on Monday, 29 December 2025, resuming its regular opening hours during the rest of the holiday period, except for Wednesday, 31 December 2025, when the Library will close at 16.00, and Thursday, 1 January, and Tuesday, 6 January 2026, when the Library will again be closed. Please note that on Monday, 5 January 2026, our extended hours services will not be available. Photo: © NSK
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On 5 December 2025, Pope Leo XIV received from the Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković a copy of Incunabula Croatica, a 2025 monograph of the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) spotlighting Croatia’s earliest printed books. Prime Minister Plenković gave this unique publication as a gift to the Holy Father on the second day of his visit to the Vatican, as a lasting testimony of the wealth and centuries-long continuity of Croatian cultural heritage. Issued as part of a major publishing project supported by the ...
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An invaluable copy of Historia antica e moderna, sacra e profana della città di Trieste, a work by a Carmelite monk Irenèo della Croce dating back to the end of the 17th century has been restored to the collections of the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) after its misappropriation in the notorious theft in the 1980s of some of NSK’s most valuable collection items. The NSK Director General Dr Ivanka Stričević received the book at a conference which the Gorizia-based UNESCO club hosted at the Coronini Cronberg Palace to ...
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The National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) once again hosted the awards ceremony of the national online quiz taking place every year as part of the Croatian Book Month, Croatia’s annual national programme supported by the Croatian Ministry of Culture and Media and successfully spotlighting books and reading for the last thirty years. In her welcome address, the Head of the NSK User Services Department Dorja Mučnjak greeted on behalf of the NSK Director General all present at the ceremony, thanking the Zagreb City Libraries public library network for successfully organising yet another Month, ...
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Opening a new chapter in the digital transformation of the Croatian library system, on 12 November 2025 the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) transitioned to the Alma library services platform and the Primo VE discovery service. NSK made this historic transition within the e-Universities project, funded as part of Croatia’s National Recovery and Resilience Plan 2021-2026. Significantly improving the search-and-discovery experience, this latest digital library services platform now offers unified access to print, electronic and digital resources, available both in open access and through subscription. ...
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At its 50th General Assembly and as part of the celebration of the Croatian Libraries Day, traditionally marked during the Croatian Book Month, the Croatian Library Association announced the winners of the 2025 Library of the Year Award. Celebrated on the Association’s initiative since 2010, the Croatian Libraries Day is marked on 11 November, on the anniversary of the passing in 1960 of the first Croatian library act, which set the legal framework necessary for a planned and systematic operation and development of all types of libraries in Croatia and all key elements making up the Croatian national library system.
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As part of Croatia’s nationwide commemoration in honour of Vukovar and Škabrnja, the cities symbolising all the victims of the aggression against Croatia during the Croatian Homeland War, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) will be closed. After closing its doors on 17 and 18 November 2025, the Library will resume its regular opening hours on Wednesday, 19 November 2025. In 2019, the Croatian Parliament declared Vukovar Remembrance Day – which after 1998 Croatia marked as a memorial day for the victims killed in the battle of Vukovar, the most bitter armed conflict of the
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As part of the e-Universities project, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) is completing its transition to the Alma library services platform and the related Primo VE discovery service, owing to which its services will not be fully available between 8 and 12 November 2025. Transitioning to Alma as the most advanced cloud-based library services platform and the related discovery service Primo VE, the Library will provide its users with a unified access to print, electronic and digital resources. Closing the era of the Library’s use of the Aleph ...
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This November and December, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) and Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (HAZU), supported by the Croatian Studies Foundation, are bringing to the Australian and New Zealand audiences exhibitions highlighting the legacy of three great scholars in Croatian history. Authored by the Senior Research Associate at the Division for the History of Natural and Mathematical Sciences at the Academy’s Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science Dr Marijana Borić, the exhibitions spotlight three world-famous Croatian intellectual figures at the turn of the 17th century – ...
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