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In honor of her outstanding performance carried out in the field of library science, Dr. Szilvia Bánfi-Szilágyi, research fellow of National Széchényi Library was given József Szinnyei Award on the occasion of Hungarian National Day August 20. The awarding ceremony took place in Pesti Vigadó.

Hungarian Language and Book Festival will be held this year, too in Szentháromság Square in Buda Castle. Organizers of the festival are looking forward to meeting visitors who are fond of literature and culture.

The event, lasting for three days, features Csángóföld as its guest of honor. Hostess and host of the event will be Bea Lukács and Szilárd Nyakas, our colleagues in National Széchényi Library.

This year’s winners of the Janus Pannonius Grand Prize for Poetry, Charles Bernstein from the US and Italian poet Giuseppe Conte will read out from their poems in the Ceremonial Hall of National Széchényi Library on August 29, 2015, at 7 p.m.

Dear Visitors!

We would like to inform you that the opening hours of National Széchényi Library will be changed as of September 1, 2015. We are waiting for our visitors in the Library Tuesday to Saturday, between 10 a.m. and 7 p.m.

Within the framework of our series of ILS presentations, Italian IT firm @Cult presented its recently developed integrated library software. Presentations of the professional day can be viewed on Videotorium.

Presentations

Dear Visitors,

We would like to inform you that the Library will be closed between July 13 and August 24, 2015, but our exhibition entitled The Royal Library – Secrets of 35 corvinas in the light of facsimiles, pictures, scripts and videos will be open even during NSZL’s summer closure.