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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 Professor 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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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 Professor 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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Students in the grand lobby of the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK).

NSK summer opening hours: 15 July – 18 August 2024

15 July – 18 August 2024

In the period between 15 July and 18 August 2024, 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 15 and 16 August 2024. Starting from 19 August 2024, the Library will resume its regular opening hours. NSK café and restaurant closing over summer On Friday, 12 July 2024, the café and restaurant operating as part of the Library will close at 15.00 and reopen on Monday, 2 September 2024, resuming their regular opening hours – from Monday to Friday between 8.00 and 15.00.

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Director General of NSK, the National and University Library in Zagreb, Dr Ivanka Stričević.

Second term of NSK Director General Professor Stričević as member of CENL Executive Committee

2024 – 2027

The Director General of the National and University Library in Zagreb Professor Ivanka Stričević has been elected for her second consecutive term as a member of the Executive Committee of the Conference of European National Librarians (CENL). CENL, which brings together 46 European national libraries, aims to strengthen the cooperation between Europe’s national libraries and promote their activities and valuable cultural heritage preserved in their collections. As a globally relevant library organisation, it is vitally important in times of crises and challenges, when libraries need to strengthen and increase all their capacities. The election of the current seven members of the Committee was held as part ...

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A fountain pen resting on an open notebook.

“The Golden Age of the Fountain Pen in NSK Manuscripts” exhibition: Croatian heritage traced in ink

3 – 15 December 2024

From 3 to 15 December 2024, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) will be hosting The Golden Age of the Fountain Pen in NSK Manuscripts exhibition, the final event of the Library’s programme marking the 130th anniversary of the founding of the Library’s Manuscripts and Old Books Collection and organised with the support of the Croatian Ministry of Culture and Media. Presenting the treasures preserved in the NSK Manuscripts and Old Books Collection such as the manuscripts of the world-famous Croatian writer Miroslav Krleža (1893-1981), letters of the internationally acclaimed Croatian ...

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The building of the National and University Library in Zagreb, with the flags of the Republic of Croatia and of the European Union hoisted on flagpoles.

Library closed on Croatia’s Anti-fascist Resistance Day (22 June 2024)

Objavljeno: 20.06.2024

On Friday, 21 June 2024, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) will close at 21.00. The Library will reopen on Monday, 24 June 2024, resuming its regular opening hours. Learn more about the Anti-fascist Resistance Day.

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Segment of the poster for the 2024 Miroslav Krleža Festival.

NSK to join 2024 Miroslav Krleža Festival

2 July 2024, 12.00

On 2 July 2024, at 12.00, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) will put on a special programme 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. At the traditional get-together, Krleža and his invaluable legacy will be presented by the Festival’s author and director Goran Matović, Dr Lada Čale Feldman from the Zagreb

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The cover of the 2024 Latin transliteration of the 1507/08 Croatian translation of “Ars bene moriendi”, with a segment of an illustration from a 15th-century original in the background.

Latin transliteration presented of another 16th-century gem of Croatian Glagolitic heritage

6 June 2024

On 6 June 2024, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) hosted a presentation of the Latin transliteration of another 16th-century masterpiece of Croatian Glagolitic heritage, which the Library published with the support of the Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Youth and Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts Foundation. Bringing closer to researchers as well as the general public one of the works originally printed by the historic printing house in Senj, the cradle of the Croatian Glagolitic printing tradition, the transliteration was published by the Library as a result of its cooperation with the

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The participants in the 2024 regional meeting of e-resources purchasing consortia in central and eastern Europe.

NSK hosts 2024 regional meeting of e-resources purchasing consortia

28 May 2024

On 28 May 2024, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) hosted the 2024 regional meeting of seven e-resources library purchasing consortia from central and eastern Europe. After all previous such regional meetings were held at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, NSK hosted the 2024 meeting, which apart from the representatives of the Hungarian and Croatian consortia brought together the representatives of another five library consortia – Austrian, Czech, Romanian, Slovak and Slovenian. Library consortia up against new challenges Traditionally organised by the Hungarian Academy’s Electronic Information Service National Programme, these regional meetings thematise challenges which e-resources library purchasing consortia are facing as ...

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