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2016/12/09
There will be a Christmas fair in the Bookshop of NSZL between December 13 and 23, 2016. Books published by the Library, and gifts, postcards and posters will be offered at a 15-percent discount price.
In the past two years, over 180,000 documents arrived from overseas in Hungary via the so-called Mikes Kelemen Program. There are a lot of unexpected treasures and interesting items among the returning documents. On December 9, 2016, our Library opened a chamber exhibition featuring some of these treasures and interesting documents.
2016/12/15
Our bookshop will be opened again on Friday January 6, 2017. The so-called Birthday Package service remains undisturbed. After the re-opening of the Library on January 3, packages can be picked up as usual, on Tuesdays and on Thursdays.
Attila Mudrák’s photo exhibition takes visitors to distant places unknown to many of us. His photos take us to remote small villages of the Carpathian Basin, to the borders, both in the geographic and symbolic senses of the word, where nowadays hopelessness and poverty prevail. However, these artistic photos do not reflect decay or hopelessness…
2016/11/28
Dr. Sándor Dörnyei, Bibliothecarius Emeritus of our Library celebrated his 90th birthday on November 4, 2016. Friends and colleagues respecting the medical historian and bibliographer presented him a celebration book including personal greetings as well as studies on the history of medicine, pharmacy and press, and various writings related to research in national bibliography and to other fields of cultural history.
2016/11/30
One of the users of Hungarian Electronic Library (Hungarian abbreviation: MEK) made a browsing, reading application for Windows 10 devices.
2016/11/29
With the cooperation of Teleki László Foundation, Deputy State Secretariat for Cultural Heritage Protection of the Prime Minister’s Office organized a conference entitled Rómer Flóris Plan –Renovated Hungarian Monuments in the Carpathian Basin. The conference will take place in National Széchényi Library on December 6–7, 2016.
2016/11/29
Professor Ewan Fernie, Fellow and Chair of Shakespeare Studies at the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon paid a visit to National Széchényi Library in November 2016.
2016/11/28
You are cordially invited to the Christmas Waiting Concert of the Choir of NSZL to be held in the Franciscan Church of St. John of Capistrano at Rózsadomb and starting at 5 p.m. on December 11, 2016.
2016/11/24
For years now, National Széchényi Library has been present in the cultural life of Hungary as a book publisher as well. From now on, the 26 to 30 various publications published annually will be available or can be ordered at a common subsite within the official website of NSZL.
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