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Dear Readers and Visitors,

In view of the epidemic situation, National Széchényi Library will suspend indefinitely its personally available public services as of Tuesday March 17, 2020. During this period, our reading rooms will be closed and all of our events will be cancelled.

Dear Visitors,

Hereby we inform you that National Széchényi Library will be closed for its readers and visitors on Saturday March 14, 2020.

Thank you for your understanding. Please, check our website for further information.

In view of the international and Hungarian virus situation, National Széchényi Library suspended organizing guided group tours of exhibitions, will not welcome visitor groups, or hold public and professional events after March 10, 2020.

The reading rooms and exhibitions of National Széchényi Library can still be visited by private individuals.

NSZL kindly asks its visitors and readers to follow and embrace the guidelines and regulations of the competent authorities to avoid any risk of viral infection.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

The concert is cancelled! Thank you for your understanding.

HAS Research Centre for the Humanities, Lendület (“Momentum”) Western Hungarian Literature 1770–1820 Research Group, MOKKA Association, MOKKA-R Division and the HAS Book Historical Working Committee will hold a joint conference on March 6, 2020 in Library and Information Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1 Arany János Street, H-1051 Budapest). Opening lecture of the conference will be delivered by István Monok, Director-General of the library. NSZL staff member and research fellow Kornélia Vas-Tóth will present a lecture under the title Ferenc Széchényi’s main library.

Presentation ceremony of Ernő Borbély’s book entitled Az enyedi politikai főiskola. Politikai foglyok a ’80-as évek Romániájában (The Political Academy of Enyed. Political Prisoners in Romania in the '80s) will start at 5 p.m. on Tuesday February 25, 2020.

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National Széchényi Library is hosting a memorial exhibition dedicated to the oeuvre of sculptor, medal artist and graphic artist Miklós Borsos, who died thirty years ago.