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Our Library Choir cordially invites you and your friends to two concerts to be given by the choir – on August 30 and 31, 2018, as part of the 8th Esztergom Liszt Week. Both concerts will start at 7 p.m.

Why did the Habsburgs send ambassadors to Constantinople? How was the most suitable person selected? What kind of preparations were made for the trip, and what was shipping like on the River Danube? Among others, these questions will be answered in a lecture to be delivered by historian Dr. Dóra Kerekes.

Centenary exhibition of Xiling Seal Engraver’s Society will visit National Széchényi Library.

Staff members of National Széchényi Library will take part in two book presentations of the event series entitled 9th Hungarian Cultural Days of Cluj (August 19–26, 2018).

Hungary’s oldest digital library, the Hungarian Electronic Library (Hungarian abbreviation: MEK) is proud to present its 18,000th volume, a reference book on chess by Viktor Akantisz and Károly Rozsnyai, which was published back in 1898. On writing the book, the authors took into account the work of Paul Rudolf von Bilguer, a renowned chess master who lived in the 19th century.