After this year’s period of summer opening hours, starting from Monday, 17 August 2026, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) has resumed its regular opening hours. Learn more about our collections and services.
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In 2026, the staff of the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) completed several Erasmus+ job shadowing programmes focusing on heritage interpretation. Making the most of this unique form of professional training, which enables direct observation of work processes and the related immediate exchange of professional experiences with regard to the presented practices, based on NSK’s 2025-2027 Erasmus+ accreditation between March and May they visited several major heritage institutions all across Europe. How heritage is promoted at the national libraries of Belgium and the Netherlands The Head of the NSK Marketing, Public Relations and Publishing Division Maja Priselac and Curator ...
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From 22.00 on Saturday, 8 August, to 00.00 on Sunday, 9 August 2026, due to regular system upgrade, the NSK Catalogue (https://katalog.nsk.hr/), Croatian academic libraries union catalogue (Bukinet, https://katalog.bukinet.hr/) and the Croatian academic libraries online services platform (https://bukinet.hr/usluge-i-servisi/) may be unavailable. We thank you for your understanding.
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From 22.00 on Saturday, 1 August, to 00.00 on Sunday, 2 August 2026, due to regular system updates, the NSK Catalogue (https://katalog.nsk.hr/), Croatian academic libraries union catalogue (Bukinet, https://katalog.bukinet.hr/) and the Croatian academic libraries online services platform (https://bukinet.hr/usluge-i-servisi/) may be unavailable. We thank you for your understanding.
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The recent report of the European Union’s Open Method of Coordination (OMC) Group spotlights Croatia as one of only four European countries – along with France, Portugal and Slovenia – which since 2012 have had an increase in the number of libraries. Also in the report, the Croatian Book Month, Croatia’s annual national programme organised by the Zagreb City Libraries and promoting books and reading, has been singled out among the leading examples of particularly successful library initiatives. The OMC Group recognised as similarly successful the ...
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On 3 July 2026, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) hosted the 15th edition of the Miroslav Krleža Festival, celebrating the legacy of one of Croatia’s greatest 20th-century writers and thinkers and taking place in Zagreb and Koprivnica by 10 July 2026. As the Festival’s longtime partner, the Library organised its traditional get-together, whose programme includes the exhibition of Krleža’s manuscripts preserved in the NSK Manuscripts and Rare Books Collection. A unique look into Krleža’...
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In the period between 11 July and 16 August 2026, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) will be providing its services from 8.00 to 15.00 every workday, except on Wednesdays, when it will be open for users from 12.00 to 19.00. The Library will be closed on Saturdays, as well as on 5 August 2026. Starting from 17 August 2026, the Library will resume its regular opening hours.
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From 14 to 16 June 2026, the Director General of the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) and member of the Conference of European National Librarians (CENL) Executive Committee Dr Ivanka Stričević took part in CENL’s this year’s Annual General Meeting. Hosted by the National Library of Luxembourg (BnL), the meeting brought together CENL members, who analysed the Conference’s activities in the previous year and adopted the related documents. Joining forces in safeguarding Europe’s cultural heritage The highlights of the meeting’s first day were talks by the Director ...
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On Monday, 22 June 2026, Croatia’s 2026 Anti-fascist Resistance Day, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) will be closed. The Library will reopen on Tuesday, 23 June 2026, resuming its regular opening hours. Learn more about Anti-fascist Resistance Day.
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The National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) is presenting Marin Getaldić – 400 years later (Marin Getaldić – 400 godina poslije), an exhibition spotlighting the legacy of Croatia’s greatest mathematician and physicist at the turn of the 17th century. After a welcome address by the NSK Director General Dr Ivanka Stričević at the exhibition’s opening, a Fellow of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (HAZU) and the Head of the Academy’s Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science Vjekoslav Jerolimov gave a brief overview of Getaldić’s achievements and their relevance to both Croatian and European science. The Head of the
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