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Dear Readers,

We would like to inform you that National Széchényi Library will be closed between October 29 and November 1, 2016.

We are looking forward to seeing on the first working day after the holidays, on November 2, 2016. 

On the occasion of the 60^th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, National Széchényi Library was granted the award of Honor Cross by the local government of Józsefváros.

Meeting a request of heirs, we created and launched a website dedicated to the memory of librarian Tibor Horváth.

National Széchényi Library launched a website entitled Magyar Október (Hungarian October) on the 60th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution and Freedom Fight of 1956.

National Széchényi Library recently published, jointly with Móra Publishing House, an interesting book presenting the oeuvre of puppet designer Vera Bródy, a book and DVD on the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, released as a special issue of BBC History jointly with Kossuth Publishing House and edited by János Rainer M., and a volume of studies entitled Propaganda – politika, hétköznapi és magas kultúra, művészet és média a Nagy Háborúban (Propaganda – Politics, Everyday and High Culture, Art and Media in the Great War).

The Collection of Posters and Small Prints is both an organic and a unique division of the Hungarian national library, which became an independent division in 1935. The current exhibition was organized in order to celebrate and commemorate the event that happened 80 years ago.

“The revolution made history even in its own time” – it is written in the preface of the book. October 23, 1956 will remain in the memory of people and nations forever. It was a day of courage, consciousness and victory.

According to information provided by FŐTÁV Ltd., responsible for Budapest District heating, there will be no heating and warm water service in National Széchényi Library from 3 a.m. Wednesday October 12, 2016 until 10 a.m. Thursday October 13, 2016.

We apologize for the inconvenience and suggest our readers to bring some warm clothes with themselves.

Bestiarium Zircense, a facsimile edition was published jointly by National Széchényi Library and the Cistercian Abbey of Zirc. The book contains an original-size facsimile of the Bestiary of a 15th-century manuscript taken from the Cistercian Abbey of Zirc to National Széchényi Library. The first book presentation to be held in Zirc will start at 4 p.m. on October 13, 2016.

Under the title “Expanding History”, a temporary exhibition was launched by the National Archives of Hungary. Open until February 28, 2017, the exhibition presents major document gifts of the past 15 years, including document collections having arrived, via Mikes Kelemen Program, from Hungarians living in diaspora.

More about the exhibition (in Hungarian)