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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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Thirteenth Festival of Croatian Digitisation Projects

16 & 17 May 2024

On 16 and 17 May 2024, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) will be hosting the Thirteenth Festival of Croatian Digitisation Projects. The 2024 edition of D-fest, the Library’s annual conference spotlighting issues surrounding the digitisation of cultural and scientific heritage, will once again bring together experts in heritage digitisation and digital collection management who will present their work in the past year and share the latest professional insights they gained as part of digitisation projects at the national and local levels. Presenting the latest developments in managing Croatia’s digital heritage The programme of this ...

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Thirteenth Festival of Croatian Digitisation Projects: Call for Papers

Abstract submission deadline: 7 April 2024

Submit your oral or poster presentation proposal for the Thirteenth Festival of Croatian Digitisation Projects by 7 April 2024. On 16 and 17 May 2024, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) will be hosting the Thirteenth Festival of Croatian Digitisation Projects, the 2024 edition of D-fest, the Library’s annual gathering spotlighting issues surrounding the digitisation of cultural and scientific heritage, digital resources management systems, digital products and services and presenting the most recent digitisation projects in the heritage sector. The programme of D-fest 2024 focuses on the protection and preservation of digital heritage as an important aspect of heritage digitisation, along with other technical, technological and professional issues in this context and in relation to the use of digital heritage.

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The visual identity of the "Resolution Earth" project.

NSK joins “Resolution Earth”, one of Croatia’s largest environmental projects

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The National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) has joined Resolution Earth (Rezolucija Zemlja), one of Croatia’s largest environmental projects, formally becoming the Friend of the Project, along with currently over 50 other institutions, organisations, companies, associations and legal entities in Croatia acting in this capacity. Run by the Večernji list daily, Resolution Earth was awarded the 2023 INMA Global Media Award for Best Community Service Campaign as the best project in its category in the world among 775 submitted projects of 239 prominent media companies from 40 countries. NSK’s initiatives with regard to the significance of ...

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NSK publishes 20th issue of its journal, “The Voice of NSK”

22 February 2024

The 20th issue of the journal of the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK), The Voice of NSK, published as part of the celebration of NSK Day 2024, is now available in both print and electronic formats, with summaries in English. This latest issue of the Library’s official journal gives an overview of its programmes and activities in 2023, bringing into spotlight new services and major NSK projects along with the treasures in its collections, professionals who through their dedicated work greatly advanced the library ...

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Celebration of 2024 National and University Library in Zagreb Day.

National and University Library in Zagreb celebrates NSK Day 2024

22 February 2024

On 22 February 2024, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) organised and hosted a special programme marking this year’s NSK Day and 417 years of NSK’s history. Bringing together the representatives of the University of Zagreb and other Croatian universities and research institutions, the Central State Office for Digital Society Development, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (CASA), leading library professionals and former NSK directors general, the programme featured addresses by the Envoy of the Croatian Minister of Culture and Media and State Secretary Dr Ivica Poljičak, Envoy of ...

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Library user returning overdue loans to a member of the NSK staff at a help desk in one of NSK’s reading rooms.

NSK waiving late return charges as part of 2024 NSK Day celebration

19 – 24 February 2024

Just return that overdue book and you will completely be let off the hook! As part of the activities ushering in the celebration of the 2024 National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) Day, the Library will be waiving all late return charges from 19 to 24 February 2024. Overdue titles may be returned where they were issued – at the loan desk on the Library’s Ground Floor or in the reading rooms on Floors 3 and 4. Learn more about this year’s edition of our NSK Doors Open Days

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Director General of the National and University Library Professor Ivanka Stričević.

Professor Ivanka Stričević takes office for her second term as NSK Director General

2 February 2024

On 2 February 2024, Professor Ivanka Stričević took office for her second term as the Director General of the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK), following her appointment by the Government of the Republic of Croatia at its 271st session, held on 13 December 2023. Before taking office as the NSK Director General for the first time, on 1 February 2020, Professor Stričević was the Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Information Infrastructure at the University of Zadar. She received her MA degree in pedagogy in 1995, at the Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, where she also obtained her doctorate in information sciences in 2006. Having distinguished herself at the beginning ...

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A segment of the front page of the NSK colouring book made available as part of the 2024 #ColorOurCollections campaign.

NSK treasures available to international audience as part of #ColorOurCollections social media festival

5 – 9 February 2024

From 5 to 9 February 2024, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) is again joining #ColorOurCollections, an international social media colouring festival organised by The New York Academy of Medicine Library. Traditionally taking place on the first full week of February, the festival is a leisure-oriented appeal to an international audience for exploring the collections of museums, libraries, archives and other heritage institutions all across the world through a widely popular and relaxing form of entertainment – colouring. The colouring book for all ages that NSK prepared for this year’s edition of the #ColorOurCollections campaign features resources available on the NSK ...

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Copies of BANE, a 2023 art book spotlighting the work of painter Bane Milenković published by Hamper Studio.

NSK hosts presentation of BANE, art book spotlighting the oeuvre of painter Bane Milenković

1 February 2024

On 1 February 2024, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) hosted the presentation of a unique, bilingual art book spotlighting the oeuvre of Bane Milenković, a Zagreb-based and Novi Sad-born contemporary painter and a well-known name on the Croatian art scene since the 1980s, published in 2023 by Hamper Studio, the Zagreb award-winning branding and design consulting studio. With text in Croatian and English, this one-of-a-kind two-volume monograph, entitled BANE, was published with the support of the Croatian Ministry of Culture and Media. Outstandingly designed by the Hamper Studio’s Tom Jura Kaćunić and Ivana Vučić, BANE’s almost 600 pages feature photographs by Goran Vranić, Lidija Š...

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