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2019/10/21
For three weeks, minute by minute, we can listen to what was on air on Radio Free Europe in 1956 – as it is reported on the website of First University Radio of the city of Pest “SZER56”.
2019/10/17
Starting at 2 p.m. on Friday October 25, 2019, a commemoration ceremony will be held in honor of the heroes of the Hungarian Revolution and Freedom Fight of 1956.
2019/10/07
The Publishing House of National Széchényi Library will wait for visitors with two book presentations at the Margó Festival of Literature and Book Fair in Várkert Bazár.
The exhibition will present a selection of portraits of Hungary as featured in 16th–20th century English, French, German, Italian and Latin fiction, based on prints kept by National Széchényi Library.
2019/10/04
On October 1, 2019, an exhibition commemorating the work of the recently deceased legendary Hungarian film director was opened in our Library.
2019/10/02
International Cataloging Principles (ICP) represent the essentials of library profession, with special regard to bibliographic description. The latest edition of the IFLA Statement of International Cataloguing Principles (ICP) was published in 2016.
2019/09/27
National Széchényi Library cordially invites you to the vernissage of the Sándor Sára exhibition.
The Hungarian national library pays tribute to the memory of Sándor Sára, twice Kossuth Prize-winning director-cameraman, Artist of the Nation with unit still photographs of films directed and photographed by Sándor Sára, with details from the documentary series entitled Krónika (Chronicle), and with a portrait film about Sára, made in 1996 and kept by the Collection of Historical Interviews.
2019/09/23
The 70th anniversary of the expropriation of Hungarian theaters will be remembered by the last curator-guided tour of the exhibition entitled Red Stars from 5 p.m. on October 11, 2019. Documents not presented at the exhibition and stories evoking the years of Stalinism will be featured.
2019/09/16
A short film, made for our exhibition entitled The Corvina Library and the Buda Workshop, about making a precious copy of a corvina page has recently been made available to the general public.
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