News, events

Conference of the National Association of Public Collections

2017/03/13

A two-day conference of museum directors was held recently in Visegrád, Northern Hungary. László Boka, Deputy Director-General and Director of Research and Academic Affairs of National Széchényi Library also delivered a lecture at the conference.

Beautiful Hungarian Map 2016 – exhibition

The Department of Cartography and Geoinformatics of Eötvös Lorand University and the Map Collection of NSZL have invited entries to win the title of “Beautiful Hungarian Map” every year since 1996. The exhibition compiled from the competing maps will present an overall view of maps produced by the Hungarian map making community in 2016 for the general public.

Beautiful Hungarian Map 2016

2017/03/09

Announcement of winners of our traditional Beautiful Hungarian Map competition and the opening ceremony of the exhibition based on competing items will start at 3 p.m., on March 17, 2017.

Celebrate your community! – Week of Communities May 8–14, 2017

2017/03/01

Aimed at creating a new tradition, a national event series will be launched within the framework of priority project code No. EFOP-1.3.1-15-2016-00001 entitled “Acting Communities – Active Community Involvement”. Application deadline is March 31, 2017

Tradition and Innovation – exhibition

A new exhibition will be opened in National Széchényi Library, one which will present NSZL as a publisher. The exhibition will offer a selection from the wide range of books, albums and periodicals published by, or with the cooperation of NSZL.

Tradition and Innovation – NSZL as a Publisher

2017/03/08

The exhibition opening on March 10 will present several areas of the publishing activities of NSZL, the wide range of our publications (illustrated albums, facsimile editions, book series, volumes of conference lectures, special publications, bibliographies, periodicals, etc.), and our publishing partners, special joint publications and cooperation with renowned publishers.

NSZL received Hungarian Heritage Award

2017/03/08

Hungarian Heritage Award Committee of the Hungarian Heritage and Europe Society (Magyar Örökség és Európa Egyesület) granted Hungarian Heritage Award (Magyar Örökség Díj) to the Restoration Laboratory of NSZL for its parchment codex restoration process.

Buffet will be closed on Saturday and Tuesday

2017/03/06

Due to a change in operator, the buffet of National Széchényi Library will be closed between March 11 and March 14, 2017.

Literates and intellectuals in history

2017/03/01

On March 8, 2017, Géza Komoróczy will deliver a lecture in the Library, as part of our event series entitled Orientalists in NSZL.

Digital content on the rise

2017/02/27

The Hungarian Digital Archive of Pictures database contains some 75,000 items. Due to cooperation between National Széchényi Library and the National Cultural Fund of Hungary, more and more electronic journals arrive in the Electronic Periodicals Archive & Database of the Library.