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.
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.
The corvina website, launched by NSZL in the fall of 2018, has been enhanced and expanded in recent months. During the summer, several content items were added to the service.
De Gruyter’s online database entitled 20th Century German History Online – National Socialism, Holocaust, Resistance and Exile 1933–1945 can be accessed in National Széchényi Library until September 30, 2019.
As part of this year’s IFLA World Library and Information Congress (WLIC), the annual Conference of Directors of National Libraries (CDNL) started this morning.
Prof. Dr. Miklós Kásler, Minister of Human Capacities, with effect from August 23, 2019, appointed Judit Hammerstein as Director-General of National Széchényi Library.
National Széchényi Library takes part in a European educational, research and cultural project entitled Kaleidoscope, the Fifties in Europe, featuring the photographic heritage of the 1950s in Europe.
National Széchényi Library will be entirely closed from July 22 until August 21, 2019. As of August 22, 2019, the reading rooms of the Special Collections and the General Collection will be open to readers in the usual opening hours.