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Best designed Croatian books published in 2023 selected as part of national best book design competition.

Croatian books selected for 2024 Best Book Design from all over the World competition

9 January 2024

The National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) selected best designed Croatian books published in 2023 as part of the national book design competition (Hrvatska lijepa knjiga) it organises every year. The selected books will enter two major book events in Europe – the international Best Book Design from all over the World competition, which is held every year as part of the Leipzig Book Fair, and the Book Art International exhibition, traditionally taking place as part of the world-famous

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Slika Marka Marulića, rad Ivana Meštrovića

Croatia marking the 500th anniversary of the passing of “the father of Croatian literature”

Year of Marko Marulić

Marking the 500th anniversary of the death of Marko Marulić (1450-1524), often referred to as “the father of Croatian literature” and “the Croatian Dante”, the Government of the Republic of Croatia declared 2024 the Year of Marko Marulić. Holding valuable copies of Marulić’s works and safeguarding his cultural legacy, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) is joining this nationwide campaign aimed at the promotion and popularisation of one of the greatest names of Croatia’s cultural heritage. Marko Marulić, the most prominent Croatian writer of the 15th and 16th centuries and the author of the first epic ...

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The visual identity of Systems Librarianship NSK Conference 2023, themed “Digital Transformation”.

“Digital Transformation”: NSK hosts Systems Librarianship Conference 2023

12 December 2023

On 12 December 2023, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) hosted Systems Librarianship Conference 2023, the 7th open conference for users of the NSK Integrated Library System. Organised with the support of the Croatian Ministry of Culture and Media, the conference again brought together information professionals and librarians from all types of libraries. Themed Digital Transformation, the conference programme focused on issues relating to digitally mature learning environments, artificial intelligence, new library technologies and related concepts, cloud-based library services platforms and discovery systems and services. The conference, whose hybrid programme attracted over 100 participants, was opened by the NSK Director General Professor ...

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The visual identity of NSK WordPod, Croatian writers’ digital archive maintained by the National and University Library in Zagreb.

NSK WordPod: Croatian writers’ digital archive

12 December 2023

In 2023, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) set up NSK WordPod, a digital archive presenting Croatian contemporary writers. Developed as part of the project supported by the Croatian Ministry of Culture and Media, NSK WordPod currently makes available unique video content bringing closer to the general public Croatia’s ten contemporary authors and their works. Launched in the year which the Library dedicated to the achievements of women in Croatian history and culture through a special NSK celebrates women programme, the NSK WordPod archive first featured Croatia’s ten contemporary female writers – Nada Mihaljević, Vanda Petanjek, Sanja Baković, Ivana Bodrožić, Sanja ...

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Section of the homepage of the new website of NSK, the National and University Library in Zagreb.

Welcome to new NSK website!

1 December 2023

On 1 December 2023, driven by its mission and vision and focusing on future and the continuous development of its services, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) launched its new website, developed in cooperation with Burza Ltd. and McKnight Media Ltd.   In line with the new visual identity of the Library’s logotype, redesigned by Croatian graphic designer Nenad Dogan, our new website brings closer to our users and the general public our services, resources and collections, projects, programmes and events and offers an ...

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Several piled up opened books.

NSK waiving late return charges as part of Croatian Book Month 2023

9 – 11 November 2023

Just return that overdue book and you will completely be let off the hook! Joining the programme of Croatian Book Month 2023 and marking Croatian Book Day, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) will be waiving all late return charges from 9 to 11 November 2023. Overdue titles are to be returned where they were issued, i.e. the central loan desk on the Library’s Ground Floor or in the reading rooms on Floors 3 and 4.

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Two copies of the 2023 facsimile edition of Officium parvum Beatae Mariae Virginis (1530).

NSK and Rijeka University Library jointly publish facsimile edition and Latin transliteration of 16th-century masterpiece of Croatian Glagolitic heritage 

24 October 2023

On 24 October 2023, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) hosted the presentation of the 2023 facsimile edition of a 16th-century masterpiece of Croatian Glagolitic heritage, an invaluable breviary entitled Officium parvum Beatae Mariae Virginis. Accompanied by the Latin transliteration and presented as part of the 2023 Croatian Book Month, the facsimile edition was jointly published by NSK and the Rijeka University Library, with the support of the Croatian Ministry of Culture and Media and University of Rijeka, ...

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