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NSK and National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina sign cooperation agreement

14 October 2025

On 14 October 2025, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) and National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina concluded a five-year cooperation agreement. With the Acting Director of the National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina Adisa Žero and NSK Director General Dr Ivanka Stričević acting as the signatories, the agreement’s signing was attended by the head of the Bosnia and Herzegovina's national library’s periodicals and official publications department Anja Mastilović, NSK Library Adviser for International Cooperation Jagoda Ille and NSK Senior Public Relations Adviser Ivana Mirošević. Cooperation aimed at further efforts to gear library services to the requests of modern ...

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Azerbaijan’s delegation during a visit to NSK.

Delegation of the Republic of Azerbaijan visits NSK

24 June 2025

On 24 June 2025, a delegation of the Republic of Azerbaijan headed by the Azerbaijan’s Minister of Culture Farid Jafarov visited the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK). The visit was organised on the initiative of His Excellency Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Republic of Croatia Anar Imanov, who emphasised the Library’s role as Croatia’s major cultural institution. The delegation was warmly welcomed by the NSK Director General Professor Ivanka Stričević and a member of the NSK Information Centre Ana-Marija Tkalčić. Professor Stričević ...

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Participants in the 2025 ISBN and ISMN Regional Meeting.

NSK hosts 2025 ISBN Regional Meeting

10 & 11 June 2025

On 10 and 11 June 2025, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) hosted the 11th ISBN Regional Meeting, which it organised in cooperation with the International ISBN Agency.  After a welcome address by the NSK Director General Professor Ivanka Stričević, in which she referred to the long and successful cooperation between NSK and the international agencies managing the ISBN and ISMN systems, the Head of the NSK Identifiers Division Danijela Getliher also welcomed to the meeting the representatives of the ISBN national agencies in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Hungary, Kosovo, Montenegro, Republic of Srpska, Slovenia and Serbia along with the other meeting participants.

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NSK staff unpacking valuable material donated to NSK by Ms Marija Orač.

Medieval maps and invaluable prints and ephemera donated to NSK collections

26 May 2025

On 26 May 2025, by way of a generous donation by Ms Marija Orač from Luxembourg, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) received valuable items now making part of the Library’s Map Collection and Print Collection. Especially valuable are the items which NSK has not held in its collections so far, such as several 18th-century maps of today’s Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and one of Croatian traditional regions, Slavonia (Le Royaume de Hongrie autora G. Valcka (Amsterdam, 1702); Principatus Transilvaniae In ...

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Representatives of the National and University Library in Zagreb and National Library of Albania.

NSK and National Library of Albania sign five-year cooperation agreement

22 May 2025

On 22 May 2025, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) and National Library of Albania concluded a five-year cooperation agreement. With the Director of the National Library of Albania Piro Misha and NSK Director General Professor Ivanka Stričević acting as the signatories, the agreement’s signing was attended by the Deputy Director of Albania’s national library Majlinda Bami, the Croatian National Library Affairs Assistant to NSK Director General Dr Sofija Klarin Zadravec and NSK Library Adviser for International Cooperation Jagoda Ille. Longstanding cooperation enters new stage The occasion created the opportunity for the representatives of the two national libraries to discuss the two institutions’ longstanding and ...

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NSK staff elected to IFLA sections for 2025-2027 term.

NSK staff elected to IFLA sections for 2025-2027 term

2025 – 2027

The participation of members of the staff of the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) in the work of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), the world’s leading library organisation, further reinforces NSK’s position in the community which makes the global network of library professionals. We are proud and happy to share the news that in the latest IFLA elections, held late in April 2025, members of NSK’s staff have been elected to several IFLA sections. Announced as part of the elections’ official results was the election of Dr Sofija Klarin Zadravec to the

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Participants in the cooperation project run by the Croatian Fraternal Union of America and National and University Library in Zagreb.

Croatian Fraternal Union of America and NSK jointly protecting Croatian emigrant heritage

October 2024

The Croatian Fraternal Union of America and NSK, the National and University Library in Zagreb, are jointly running a project (Iz Pittsburgha s ljubavlju: knjižnična baština hrvatskih iseljenika) aimed at fostering cultural connections between Croats in the US and Croatia and popularising the cultural legacy of Croatian emigrants in America and its significance for Croatia’s culture. In October 2024, Senior Archivist and Curator at the NSK Manuscripts and Old Books Collection Dr Tamara Štefanac, NSK Library Adviser and the Head of the NSK Music Collection Dr Tatjana Mihalić and Senior Conservator and Head of the

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Participants in the CeOS_SE project’s closing event hosted by NSK.

Libraries supporting citizen science: NSK hosts one of CeOS_SE project’s closing events

30 October 2024

On 30 October 2024, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) hosted one of the programmes closing Citizen-Enhanced Open Science in Southeastern Europe Higher Education Knowledge Hubs (CeOS_SE), a 2022-2024 research project aimed at including European citizens in pan-European efforts focusing on open science. Bringing together some 60 participants from several countries and focusing on the significance of open science, the conference provided insight into examples of best practice when it comes to citizen science initiatives. Following the opening remarks by the

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A segment of the page of one of the works by Marko Marulić (1450-1524).

“Marko Marulić – A European humanist” NSK exhibition on view in Bern by 12 Nov 2024

25 October – 12 November 2024

By 12 November 2024, the Embassy of the Republic of Croatia in the Swiss Confederation will be hosting Marko Marulić – A European humanist, the exhibition of the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) spotlighting the international cultural and literary legacy of Marko Marulić (1450-1524), “the father of Croatian literature”. The exhibition opening, held on 25 October, started with the address by the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Croatia in the Swiss Confederation Dr Andrea Bekić, who emphasised Marulić’s significance for European literature and his role as a pioneer in Croatian literature as the author of the first epic written and ...

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Assistant Professor Luka Špoljarić with the visitors of the programme at the Dutch national library presenting Croatia’s historiography champion Ivan Lučić.

Dutch audience meets Croatia’s historiography champion Ivan Lučić

2 October 2024

On 2 October 2024, the National Library of the Netherlands hosted a programme organised by the Embassy of the Republic of Croatia in the Kingdom of the Netherlands spotlighting Ivan Lučić (1604-1679), Croatia’s historiography champion. The programme, which was attended by the National Library Affairs Assistant to the Director General of the National and University Library in Zagreb Dr Sofija Klarin Zadravec, included presentations on Lučić’s work and significance by Croatian and Dutch professionals and researchers. Assistant Professor at the Department of History of the University of Zagreb’s Faculty of Humanities ...

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