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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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Director of the National Library of Bulgaria Krasimira Aleksandrova and NSK International Cooperation Officer Jagoda Ille at the opening of the Bulgarian national library’s Croatian Culture Corner. Source: National Library of Bulgaria.

Croatian Culture Corner opens at the National Library of Bulgaria

23 January 2024

On 23 January 2024, the St. Cyril and Methodius National Library of Bulgaria opened its Croatian Culture Corner, on which occasion the Bulgarian national library and the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) signed a two-year cooperation agreement. The opening programme included addresses by the Director of the National Library of Bulgaria Krasimira Aleksandrova, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Croatia in the Republic of Bulgaria Jasna Ognjanovac and NSK International Cooperation Officer Jagoda Ille, who all emphasised the importance of maintaining the two libraries’ successful cooperation, while H. E. Ognjanovac presented Women and Diplomacy — Ambassador for a Day, an initiative of the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs aimed at generating ...

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Female person searching the Catalogue of the National and University Library in Zagreb using a tablet.

NSK Catalogue and NSK Integrated Library System to be briefly unavailable on 23 Jan 2024

23 January 2024

On 23 January 2024, due to security and system updates, the online catalogue of the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) and NSK Integrated Library System will be unavailable for a period of 60 minutes, starting at 22.00. During this time, searching resources in the NSK collections and libraries included in the NSK Integrated Library System will be possible by using the Croatian National Union Catalogue. We appreciate your patience and thank you for your understanding.

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Invitation for the “Mediterranea. Visions of an ancient and complex sea” exhibition.

“Mediterranea. Visions of an ancient and complex sea” exhibition on view until 2 Feb 2024

16 January – 2 February 2024

From 16 January to 2 February 2024, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) is hosting the Mediterranea. Visions of an ancient and complex sea exhibition, jointly organised by the Italian Cultural Institute in Zagreb, Embassy of the Italian Republic to the Republic of Croatia and NSK. Curated by Viviana Panaccia and featuring stunning material and installations as well as the satellite images provided by the most advanced space technology developed by the European Space Agency (ESA), Italian Space Agency (ASI) and the

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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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