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Croatian Book Month

The visual identity of the 2024 Croatian Book Month.

“I will listen to your story…”: Croatian Book Month 2024

15 October – 15 November 2024

The Croatian Book Month 2024, this year’s edition of Croatia’s annual national programme successfully promoting books and reading for almost thirty years, opened on 15 October at the new building of the Rijeka City Library. Traditionally organised by the Zagreb City Libraries public library network under the auspices of the Croatian Ministry of Culture and Media, the Month is themed I will listen to your story…, spotlighting the value of telling stories and focusing on literary forms making the basis of oral literature, such as fairy tales and legends, which are constantly ...

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“Dragi Lastane”, logotype of documentary by Irena Škorić.

“Dear Lastan!”: 70 years of “Modra lasta”, Croatia’s iconic teenage magazine

5 – 22 November 2024

From 5 to 22 November 2024, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) will be hosting the exhibition marking the 70th anniversary of the publication of the first issue of Modra lasta, Croatia’s longest-running teenage magazine. Spotlighting Lastan, the magazine’s hugely popular agony uncle, better still, a “big brother” figure for countless generations of Croatian teenagers over the past seven decades, the exhibition is jointly being organised by the Library, Croatian School Museum, Croatian Association of School Librarians and the Školska knjiga company, which has published

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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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