NSK Membership
Gain access to the richest library collection in Croatia and a wide range of services provided by NSK, the National and University Library in Zagreb.
Extensive facilities offered to NSK members include spacious reading rooms, computer access and spaces suited for study and various creative pursuits.
Who can register for NSK membership?
Eligible for NSK membership are persons aged 16 and over.
All obligations pertaining to NSK membership in the case of members under the age of 18 are assumed by their parent, foster parent or legal guardian, who formally assume these obligations by signing a related declaration of consent.
Legal entities may not register for NSK membership, but may submit a request for NSK membership for their employees, students or other persons on whose behalf they can act in this respect. An NSK Membership Card issued upon such request bears the name of the person for which membership was requested and not of the legal entity.
How to apply for NSK membership?
You can easily apply for NSK membership in person or online.
All wishing to apply for NSK membership in person may download the NSK Membership Request Form from the Library’s website and have to present an identity document at the Form’s submission.
Upon payment of the membership fee, the NSK Membership Card is issued on the spot, enabling its holder to immediately start using the Library’s services, collections, user spaces and all other user facilities.
All applying for NSK membership by submitting the NSK Membership Request online will get instructions by e-mail guiding them through the registration process.
All data provided to the Library as part of the registration procedure are considered confidential and the Library processes them in compliance with the Croatian personal data protection act (Zakon o zaštiti osobnih podataka).
Are you entitled to special membership fees?
Students, retired citizens and minors are entitled to special membership fees.
To exercise your right to special membership fees you have to present at the registration some of the following proofs of status, along with an identity document:
- a Student Identity Card (X-ica) or an electronic student’s record book (as a proof of your status as a full-time or part-time undergraduate and graduate student or a postgraduate student in Croatia)
- certificate of exercised pension insurance rights (as a proof of your status as a retired citizen)
- ID card or passport (as a proof of your status as a non-Croatian EU citizen)
- passport (as a proof of your status as a non-EU citizen)
- declaration of consent by which the parent, foster parent or legal guardian of a minor assumes all obligations pertaining to that minor’s membership of the Library.
Persons with disabilities and those accompanying them are entitled to free membership, upon providing a valid proof of their disability status (a certificate from the Croatian Disabled Persons Registry).
Proxy borrower
Registered members may also act as proxy borrowers for other registered members of the Library, for research purposes.
The Proxy Borrower Library Card Request is available for download from the Library’s website and it is required that both members are present at the registration.
Fee models
- Annual registration – including borrowing privileges
- Full-time and part-time undergraduate and graduate students, and postgraduate students of universities in the Republic of Croatia – €13,50
- Researchers and academic staff of Croatian universities, members of cultural and educational institutions – €20.00
- Retired citizens – €6.50
- Other Croatian citizens – €26,50
- Persons with disabilities and those accompanying them are entitled to free membership and free membership renewal, upon providing a valid proof of their disability status, i.e. a disability or a carer ID or certificate (a certificate from the Croatian Disabled Persons Register (Registar osoba s invaliditetom) – no charge
- Annual registration – Reader Pass (not including borrowing privileges)
- Croatian citizens – €20.00
- Foreign university students, foreign citizens – €20.00
- Persons aged between 16 and 18 – €4
- Discount for legal entities (group membership) – annual registration
- For groups of 2 to 9 people – the price is based on the membership category from 1.1 or 1.2.
- For groups of 10 to 99 people – a 20% discount on the annual membership fee. The discount applies only to groups of members from the same category.
- For groups of 100 or more people, the discount is negotiated based on the number and category of members.
- Short-term membership – Reader Pass (not including borrowing privileges)
- Monthly pass – €7
- Weekly pass – €6
- Daily pass – €4
- Charges and fees for additional library membership cards
- Charge for the loss of or damage to the membership card – €4)
- Proxy Borrower Library Card fee – €4
Payment methods
Persons applying for NSK membership in person may pay all NSK membership-related fees in cash or by a credit card at the box office operating as part of the Registration Desk on the Library’s Ground Floor.
Persons applying for NSK membership online pay all related fees directly to the Library’s bank account or in person, when collecting their NSK Membership Card at the Registration Desk on the Library’s Ground Floor.
Data needed for direct payments to the Library’s bank account:
Nacionalna i sveučilišna knjižnica u Zagrebu
Ulica Hrvatske bratske zajednice 4
10000 Zagreb, Hrvatska
IBAN: HR66 2340 0091 1000 1008 1
Payment purpose (Opis plaćanja): “Članarina/Naknada za iskaznicu” (membership or library card issuance fee)
Registration-related forms
NSK Proxy borrower library card request form
Declaration of parental/legal guardian’s consent
NSK Registration Desk hours and contact information
Monday – Friday 8.00 – 21.00
Saturday 9.00 – 14.00
T. +385 1 616 4078
E. upis@nsk.hr