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The scope of NSZL's activities has been expanded with web archiving
2021/01/20
On January 1, 2021, National Széchenyi Library was assigned a new task, based on a government decree issued in December 2020, which defines the tasks of the national library in relation to the preservation of web content provided and made public on the Internet.  
“Who will preserve the Internet?” – the conference in Videotorium
2021/01/13
Recordings of the presentations of the online conference held on December 2, 2020, as well as the deliverd presentations are now available.
The validity of NSZL reader passes has been prolonged until March 2, 2021
2021/01/11
Due to the extension of pandemic restrictions, our Library is still unable to receive its readers personally. In this difficult time, we want to compensate our loyal readers for the inconvenience.
Tens of thousands of unique documents became freely available in our databases in 2020
2021/01/04
As the largest Hungarian public collection, National Széchényi Library has been keeping a whole range of treasures that can rarely be seen and which may be surprising at first sight. During 2020, however, more and more curiosities became digitally freely accessible via our recently launched databases.
End of the year
2020/12/18
Dear Readers, Between December 24, 2020 and January 3, 2021, our services provided via email or telephone will be unavailable. Online copying queries received after December 9 will be answered and fulfilled from January 4 onwards.
Web archiving in Hungary – in international academic literature
2020/11/30
A paper written by our colleagues Márton Németh and László Drótos was evaluated as Highly Commended Paper in special journal Digital Library Perspectives.
Free prolongation of reader passes on Széchényi Memorial Day
2020/11/24
Write to us on November 25, 2020 and we’ll give you a six-month reader membership as a gift.
Széchényi Memorial Day in the online space
2020/11/24
On November 25, 2020, it is (also) worth monitoring our website and social media sites, because during the day we will come forward with a lot of interesting things, games and valuable prizes, and at noon it will be revealed which of our colleagues received the award of the Hungarian national library, the Széchényi Commemorative Medal, this year.
National Széchényi Library makes a thousand modern era engravings digital public domain
2020/11/18
Our latest digital content service dubbed Régi Ritka (Old Rare) further expands the range of special documents that you can browse from the comfort of your home.
Extraordinary measure
2020/11/11
In line with Government Decree No. 484/2020 (XI. 10.), National Széchényi Library has suspended indefinitely its personally available public services as of Wednesday November 11, 2020. Please, note that many of our services are still available remotely (via email, online).  


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